> It was born as 'FaceSmash', a platform created for male students to rate the attractiveness of female students. Things have not improved from those early days: Meta's various platforms, notably Facebook, have been implicated in ethnic cleansing, failing to handle hate speech, allowing Troll Farms, and subverting democracy in the USA, the UK, and India. Recently, it has run ads for anti-LGBTQ organisations and hosted neo-Nazi shopfronts.<p>Knowing nothing, I was guessing that the Fediverse would be relatively anti-censorship on the free speech spectrum.<p>Apparently, just the opposite.