I describe it as chaos
Thanks for sharing this!
It's not intended behavior, it just isn't getting fixed yet because ernest is still trying to fix the stability issues, which is a much higher priority. In the meantime, consider buying ernest a coffee, he could really use it. The link for that is here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin
I never said that only left wing perspectives belong here, I only said bigotry shouldn't be allowed. You can be conservative without being a bigot. And no, I'm not going to hear someone out if they think I shouldn't be allowed to have any rights. I am a human being, and I deserve to be treated like one.
There is no such thing as polite bigotry and it isn't as agnostic as you make it out to be. Bigotry at its core is the belief that certain groups of people don't deserve their human rights because of traits that can't be changed. I also never said I advocated for banning all or even most value systems that don't align with mine. I don't care what others do as long as they aren't forcing their beliefs upon others, advocating for the oppression of others, or otherwise cause harm. If you treat bigotry as a valid belief, you let it get a foothold. Once a significant number of bigots get into positions of power, they start to oppress people. Now lets say just for the sake of argument that it can be tolerated to an extent, I still shouldn't have to be exposed to it on a daily basis. I try to understand things from other peoples perspective, but I will not emphasize with those who consider me inferior and undeserving of my human rights.
I don't care about the morality of their speech as long as it's courteous and friendly
The thing is, I do. If someone advocates for limiting my rights because of something I can't change, I don't care how nice their tone is, they are still a bigot.
How would you define hate?
I think most admins are just going to be focusing on actual hate groups, not tone policing. Most people are generally going to be tolerant of mistakes and misconceptions. As for how it should be defined, I have some ideas; don't use slurs or make derogatory statements against a group of people, don't promote fascism or nazism, don't spread conspiracy theories about certain groups of people, no excusing human rights abuses or denial of it where there is clear evidence. Some examples would be using the N word, saying all or most LGBT+ people are pedophiles or are accepting of it, excusing Putin's behavior, Holocaust denial, and accusing Jewish people of having deadly space lasers. Regarding slurs, I support oppressed people reclaiming them, but general use of them needs to be restricted.
An agreement like OP is describing is entirely limited to admins who collectively choose to defederate or block problematic instances, but it isn't truly enforceable. The best thing you could do is maintain a site that lists instances that agree to a set of rules like this and actively enforces them.
It's a pain to constantly have to reboot to switch between them, you have less disk space, and Windows will sometimes interfere with the Linux installation. Plus there isn't enough things I can't do in Linux, that I can in Windows to justify it.