It’s far easier and more appealing to simply join the community that doesn’t have shitheads in the first place.

I’ll take the “safe space” community any day. All the racist/sexist/whatever bullshit is pretty worn out anyway.

> but instead follow people, read their tweets and retweets and build a graph which suits your likings.

I’m not going to waste my time actively doing that. So while it happens naturally over time, I’d rather not see the shitheads before they get filtered out.

The safe space communities are just as bad if not worse than the shitheads you're referring to, except they isolate you with nobody but them and browbeat you into not having friends outside of their depraved circle. They're PCP being peddled in a coca cola commercial by an abusive boyfriend.

> except they isolate you with nobody but them and browbeat you into not having friends outside of their depraved circle.

I don’t see how that’s possible in online community.

I for one enjoy having federated and local timelines where the posts don't call me slurs, are mostly about things I'm interested in, and have properly labeled images (no uncwed nsfw, so I can scroll in public). Have fun blocking hentai bot #13874828374 from your federated timeline on pl dot shitheads dot st or whatever :)

Think of what you're saying. You're saying you want someone else to curate the feed from which you curate your feed.

The federated feed is noisy, just like the real world. You pick from it and decide what you interact with. Letting someone decide what you see there, it doesn't lessen the SNR, it just lessens what you see. For every hentai bot you don't see there is at least one real person with something interesting to say that you'll never see.

I prefer to decide what information is available to me, and that necessarily means wading through things I'm not interested in sometimes.

This is honestly an embarassingly bad argument/response

Embarrassingly bad? How so? Embarrass me.