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I've had to sign waivers like that to take my kids to bounce house birthday parties.

That's what I'm doing, but I was using all to find new places to subscribe to before the spam started.

It was Marble Madness. I was terrible at it, so I mostly remember the first level.

I don't necessarily want to block them, but I wish I could mute either the community or the account posting it all

Sure, but a lot of users here are minimizing how bad it was, so I wanted to be specific about how explicitly hateful it was.

I saw a wave of the harassing spam they were getting right before they defederated. One was a meme about lynching drag performers. Another was a picture of an erection that was posted in what looked like every feminist and trans friendly space, asking if it was bigger than the ones owned by the denizens of the communities. I'm sure it was just a small fraction of what they were dealing with as more shitty little hatemongers find their way to Lemmy, but I happened to catch it by sorting by new at exactly the wrong time. I can't blame the Beehaw mods for not wanting to deal with the psychological toll that comes with manually moderating that kind of content.

I tried registering for Beehaw and haven't heard anything, but I'm mostly a lurking up-voter anyway, so I guess I'll keep sending those into the void along with this comment.

I'm using Jerboa to do exactly that to find new communities.

I also have a goth orange cat.

The stuff I saw was worse than just slurs. One was a meme about murdering drag performers. Really hateful shit.

Less than an hour ago, I was reporting some pretty vile shit that was being spammed on some of their places I was subscribed to. It was a lot, all at the exact same time. If they are getting coordinated attacks like that regularly, I'm not sure I can really blame them for wanting to wait for the tools they need to keep it in check.

I can't wait to see how this turns out.