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Why do you want to control what other people say so much?
I feel like none of you read the post
We did. You basically said you would rather we all stopped talking about fuccbois instead of you filtering it out client side.
The first two words were Thought Experiment. Usually that implies, "Hey, what do you think would happen if X? Is it even possible?"
@Rhynoplaz sure, but ~~your~~ their thought experiment was about whether or not it would be possible for ~~you~~ them to ban the fediverse from talking about some topics.
People who are telling ~~you~~ them they don't want that, are simply responding to the hypothetical.
I had nothing to do with this. Just a rando passing through reading comments. I saw OP was getting jumped on for their phrasing.
If they had said "What if we could go a week without hearing about these fucks?" Everybody would celebrate the idea, but most people ignored that part and couldn't help but attack OP over censorship.
I just felt bad that nobody was actually participating in the question, but going out of their way to bring OP down.
@Rhynoplaz sorry, have corrected my comment.
Fair enough. I see what you mean. If OP had asked what if we collectively agreed to stop doing something instead of asking what if it were possible to ban us from doing it "for" our own good, the conversation would be different.
Einstein’s thought experiments led to the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Every real world experiment starts as a thought experiment. Especially if your “thought experiment” takes the form of “is this even possible? How could we do this?”