New is fine, so long as you’re using a curated list of decent communities. If you’re on All, I guess I hope you like furry porn.

It’s not super surprising or anything, the decentralized model welcoming all users is unavoidable, that was a core design goal. If people don’t want to see certain content, they are free to block or defederate or even move Instances if necessary. So, it’s natural that people that take a lot of flak elsewhere might seek refuge here. Refuge is kinda our thing, in a way, from algorithms and corporations especially.