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I just learned of several more instances that have removed us from block lists.. Im glad to see so many instance admins are willing to listen to reason and have changed their decisions in light of the facts and evidence. From what I hear it wasnt just my emails but the efforts of so many in the community showing support for us. I really appreciate that from all of you.
The ones that have caused a frustration for me are:
blacktwitter.io
scholar.social
masto.donte.com.br
@EubieDrew scholar.social is actually one that wont be changing their toon anytime soon. They were exceedingly vile and in fact the reason QOTO exists at all.
I started my career there and it was my first account. I saw the admin banning en mass LGBTQ members (I joined because they boasted LGBTQ friendly stance).. I found out it was because those members were following bad-actors, though they were doing it to monitor for doxxing and calls to violence so they could warn their community.
Anyway when I saw this I started QOTO as a truly LGBTQ friendly place that would protect them rather than punish the victims. The users from there and other instances around the fediverse flocked to QOTO and we very quickly exceeded the size of the scholar instance and others and became one of the largest, LGBTQ friendly and free speech instances on the fediverse. Since then we have grown to be one of the largest non-general instances onn the whole network.
Anyway the owner of the scholar instance was furious and of course banned me and labeled me a nazi for doing it. He also banned our instance so he could not only ban his members but prevent them from easily migrating over to here...
I tried reaching out to him years ago to make peace but he was very aggressive and abusive and the very idea that I should date to email him.
So yea.... very toxic instance and no hope of recovering that sadly.
