Most of my wish list have nothing to do with safety because I’m a straight cis white guy and so my experience of Mastodon is that its userbase is painfully anodyne.

This sounds so backwards to me. Do you know how you could create an environment for a less painfully anodyne userbase?

I wasn’t even trying to be hurtful

Next time try to not be hurtful. Internalize the difference.

we should be able to have sane and respectful conversations

I agree but then some folks come along and fuck it up.

So to all the mods out there: Your personal opiniondoes not give you the right to delete comments and block users, just because their opinions don’t align with yours!

Absolutely it does. Their sub; their rules. Lemmy is not a democracy.