Wow. So fosstodon instance actually enforced an English language only policy. Wtf. They are kicking someone off for using Irish. What bat shit crazy fucked up colonial anglocentric bollocks is that.
Am amazed. That someone would even think about such a policy in the first place. Yikes. That someone else would go so far as to flag posts for it. That's up there with the instances that enforce a single topic. Wtf.
Am really appreciative of the good instance admin of v.st.
Yeah that one has always made me pause for a moment. But if the admin and the majority of their users don’t speak X, how can they realistically moderate posts written in X?
@gadgetoid Google translate. Make friends with polyglots. Get more admins?
@quixoticgeek ah maybe we could ask Google to add Irish to English translation 🙃
It’s a very yikes and broadly not worthy of defending policy, but at least they’re showing their whole arse up front and not wasting anyone’s time,
Still looking for an instance that better suits me 😬
@gadgetoid if all else fails. Spin up your own instance. But I can relate to the idea of finding an instance to call home.
@quixoticgeek aha! They've repealed the policy.
Now I just need to be able to shitpost and I'm home 😆
@quixoticgeek I have my own for my blog, but I think it would collapse if I tried to use it generally 🤣
Great source of fully alt-tagged image embeds though!