In this frenzy of joining and following, it's easy to miss malicious intent. If you happen to notice I'm following (egads, or boosting!) someone hateful or abusive, please let me know. It's likely I just quickly clicked to follow back without noticing someone was a racist or a terf or something else gross, or I missed their me-too story. I've also occasionally followed bad people to see what they're saying, though I'm less likely to do that here with the Local & Federated timelines. Pls tell me.
@redsage I definitely appreciate you and your post for making me more aware! I’ll be careful out here✌️
@flsounds Ugh. Yeah - and a lot of these people are intentionally trying to get folks to follow them so they can inject their hate later, so may be putting forward innocuous content now to get boosts and follows for awfulness later. It happens. The important thing is that we look out for each other and share information as needed.