Eubie Drew (QOTO 🦣) @EubieDrew@qoto.org

@EubieDrew A lot of the more active Twitter accounts I follow have also migrated here. I've started unfollowing politically-focused posters on Twitter, since the replies to their posts have simply become too toxic. Except to make connections on Mastodon, I've gone silent on Twitter.

Here's a large tree, called the Dover Oak, along the Appalachian Trail near Pawling, NY.

#thicktrunktuesday
This Old Hiker standing in fron…

Excuse me, #nonbinary, not #bisexual:

If the #ColoradoSprings shooter is actually #nonbinary, that does not make them #liberal. It makes them a victim of #selfhate. #Liberalism does not make one self-hating, #Conservative bullying does that.

Bell Rock Lighthouse Angus, Scotland.

@freemo

There is a well known phenomenon typically associated with the Right.

*Moral Panic*

It happens on the Left too, as we are seeing. Members of the community are primed to react in prescribed ways to certain triggers, and spread the #MoralPanic to others they are networked with.

And no one wants to be the first to stop clapping. #Moderators are operating out of either ignorance or fear.

#QOTO.org #mastodonserver #federation

@freemo

The only problem with this, as with all things, is human nature. Like people in all positions of power, they will not admit when wrong. This is especially true in a situation like this. He caved to the few, based off of lies. To reverse that mistake would be admitting he is wrong and would open other decisions made in the past and future up to more scrutiny. In his mind, consciously or subconsciously, it would be better to ignore this. With this mentality its always easy to take action on an issue, but reversing the action nearly never happens.

Politicians, CEOs, and other people in power will make decisions to fix a problem, real or not, but when is the last time you have ever seen a person in this type of position REVERSE a decision. Almost never. I say almost because there might be an occasion I don't know about, but I can't think of any.

Reversing his action won't happen, because its an admission he made the wrong choice, and that takes courage.

As always, my opinion doesn't mean shit, and I hope I'm wrong.

@Gargron

I am grateful for all the good people here, the caring and thoughtful people, the people who yearn to make the world a better place. Happy Thanksgiving.

a) We need to scale content moderation. A LOT. Corporate social network sites (SNS) do this by using armies of poorly paid, outsourced contractors. The #Fediverse should do it better. Perhaps by organizing a worker-owned content moderation cooperative?

Some quick notes on how we might build some of the essential infrastructure and governance processes that will be needed if #Mastodon is really going to be sustainable and viable as a mass-adoption social network (1/n):

This Thanksgiving I'm thankful for the server mods.

Mastodon in a nutshell

Wow - this is awesome. Now, I'm old enough to have been a moderator on Fidonet. And on IRC. Both the regular IRC and the one that ran as a backend to a huge social network (Sweden only) that was a bit like Facebook but long before Facebook. And some other things.

But the discussions on #fediblock regarding defederation are definitely bringing up a completely new aspect to network moderation I haven't really seen in this light before.

(1/n)

Disregard the headline, which I think is over the top. Pretend it's "Eugen caves to populist pressure" instead. I think the story of #qoto (which I didn't know of when I wrote the thread yesterday) is a very good example of a few of the things I brought up.

https://jeffreyfreeman.me/eugen-rochko-ceo-of-mastodon-found-to-support-nazis-agenda/

(I have no opinions on Qoto myself - I know nothing more than that it used to be listed, I have friends who signed up on it when moving from Twitter due to it's STEM focus)