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Its funny.
Even if I actively look for drama, the only thing I can find is WelshPixie being transphobic about a fedi instance that, if I remember correctly, shut down more than a year ago.
Edit: I mean that Eris' instance shut down, not wafrn.
Pro-tip: this is not an okay thing to DM to a stranger.
To me it's fine. I think it's really funny.
But most people won't like it.
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I think my hope would be for @piefedadmin to release the names of those instances as soon as possible, so that other admins can protect their users.
I don't think it's reasonable to allow this extremely dangerous abuse of the ActivityPub protocol to continue, just to protect the people doing that abuse from some potential criticism.
A moderation report is not the time for jokes or euphemism or ambiguity or coded language.
Clearly communicate what the rule violation or danger is, with any context that a moderator might not know.
You are sending a short message to somebody who doesn't understand what's going on as well as you do, and who has other priorities as well.
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My display name is currently "fediXXlore" because somebody got angry at me and censored my username like that (and I thought that was funny).
If any of their followers had a filter in place for my username, their censorship would bypass that filter.
That's a shitty thing to do!
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Some troll on a single user instance posts some nonsense.
Your user reports them and forwards the report.
The troll gets a copy of the report and knows which instance it's from.
The troll posts nonsense about your instance.
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I see the criticisms, but moderation rules that nobody can oppose a specific ethno-nationalist project seems difficult to enforce outside of specialty spaces.
Babka can be officially pro-Zionist, because they're a Jewish space. It becomes a question for that Jewish community.
They won't get the follow-up questions about Hindu-Nationalism in India or Russian-Nationalism in the former USSR, that most instances would have to take seriously.
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Going to end the thread here, on a more positive note.
Because yes. Obviously using "white trans women" as a shorthand for "trans women" erases trans women of colour.
And that fucking sucks.
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Somebody calling a (Mexican, light skinned but seemingly not white) woman racist for using the first name "Maya".
I have no idea if Maya is trans or not, but "white trans women" were also complained about in the same thread.
My assumption is that (if Maya is trans), most people choosing the name "Maya" for themselves were thinking about the Greek or Hebrew origins of that fairly common woman's name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia
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The "all trans people are white" thing is just blatant Nazi "degeneracy" bullshit.
Trans people did not "make it that way".
White trans people do not believe that.
It is a Nazi theory that Nazis promote is that the existence of trans people results from rich white people's lives being too easy, so they become like the weirdos from the Capital in the Hunger Games.
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There is also the horrors.
Like, this is somebody being pointlessly cruel to a *trans man* about his memorial to his dead wife.
And then doubling down about it in the apologies.
Notice the division is between "white trans women" and all "trans men and non-binary people"?
A very clear example of "white trans women" just meaning "trans women".
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Chris Trottier posted some uspol stuff without a content warning.
That sucks.
But if your mental health is at risk, a filter is a very effective supplement to content warnings.
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On Mastodon a filter can work two different ways.
They can hide a post entirely, or they can add a content warning for you.
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And working in moderation, sometimes you have annoying users who you love but whose reports should absolutely never be forwarded.
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@YKantRachelRead I would assume, given the attack on the dead trans women, you're probably right.
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This is why trans women were murdered in the Holocaust.
Don't fucking blame trans people for a fucking century-old antisemitic conspiracy theory used to justify the murders of trans people.
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Somebody who actually knows the protocol better can tell me if Ruby's solution will hold up if a BlackSky user uses Attie.
I'm not sure if this holds up if BlackSky users log into Attie, though. It might be like Zeitgeist where it just takes a single untrustworthy local user to expose everything.
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If Attie only works directly with Relays than BlackSky should be safe.
If Attie allows users to authenticate access to the BlackSky AppView than BlackSky users obviously would not be safe.
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@IngaLovinde@embracing.space @piefedadmin Yeah, I think that's the thing.
People want to block these instances because they're abusing users' data, not just using that abuse as an excuse to block instances they're already mad at.
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What I suspect is going on is that this person wanted to make a criticism of some bad takes they'd heard, surrounding the recent UK stabbings, couldn't find anything recent, and then kind of just fudged the dates to make it work.
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And most interesting to me?
This Fediblock post is three days old. In it, the posts being discussed are time-stamped four days earlier.
These posts were A MONTH OLD at that time.
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Nobody says "go to babka". The admin suggests babka along with other servers that "might be a better fit".
There is no indication that any moderation action was actually taken, here. The admin specifically says that they won't delete the account.
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@Nickiquote@mstdn.social I feel like among teenagers on Fedi, there's a fairly extensive use of Misskey-style emoji reacts.
These are generally more silly and less literal? Kind of like you see on Discord.
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AtProto is bad, but it's pretty clear what the least bad part of it is.
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@eris Although one instance admin did seem to think that referencing MKUltra in a username was racist.
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Often these criticisms of me will be in the form of "Fedilore doesn't think non-white trans people exist" because I didn't mention the race or trans status of somebody I was criticizing.
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I have "Trump" and a few other words that are automatically filtered behind a "uspol" content warning for me.
Depending on the day, I might click through to read one of those posts or I might not.
On the other hand, I also have filters in place for some sexual terms (mostly related to furry porn and age play).
Mastodon entirely hides these posts without any warning to me, because that's not content I would want to click through on any day.
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(Nothing against furries.
Furries are good people.)
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Which obviously reiterates the intentional cruelty of the fucking "Nazi phase" lie.
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@kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place It's not about rules being meaningless or contentious.
More about them being kind of logically impossible.
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If cloud-hosted software has access to your data, then you should try not to use cloud-hosted software that is under US jurisdiction.
This is frustrating.
Transphobia and transmisogyny are two of the most important civil rights challenges in our society right now.
It is really not helpful to conditionally oppose anti-trans hate, just on the basis that it's a subset of some other type of bigotry.
You have to actually take a stance against transphobia and transmisogyny.
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@zekkidae I know very little about age play, but I have nothing against age players.
That parenthetical was intended to have a sort of silly tone, which I felt was stronger by just picking one example.
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@kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place I think I'm addressing the opposite of what you think I'm addressing.
I'm saying a server can't (coherently) be in favour of all ethno-nationalist movements, because these movements conflict.
Not even that it's a bad rule. It's just that if you support Hindu-nationalist positions, you can't also support Sikh-nationalist positions.
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Eurosky users that I'm seeing seem to be saying that it was down.
From what I can tell, only Blacksky (and a few extremely small projects) were still up.
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This is confusing.
Eurosky doesn't have an AppView, but claims they were still up.
But in the screenshots, it sure doesn't look like it was still up.
https://bsky.app/profile/eurosky.social/post/3mjmwi4j2es2d
