Casey Rollins 🔵 @realcaseyrollins@qoto.org

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The definition QOTO uses for harassment is rather strict. It means anyone who does not respect a users right to disengage.

If someone says go away, then go away, thats all.

@arteteco @realcaseyrollins @design_RG @mngrif @Surasanji @evaristus

http://xkcd.com/228
http://xkcd.com/1560
http://xkcd.com/156

Im so sick of seeing the same exact photo of Giuliani over and over again in the news

Should I still have a SFW account?

What's more secure?

@freemo @realcaseyrollins @design_RG @mngrif @Surasanji

I'm a free speech lover and I like this place to be a platform for our users to get in touch with as much as they want of the fediverse, as long as there is no **active** harassment of any of us.

The rest is up to the users and the clients, they have a lot of power in carving their own informational niche, and that one of the big reasons why AP exists in the first place.
I understand that people may not be familiar with the technology, which has never had this scale of usage, but if you want freedom and independence is it too much to ask that you just search "mastodon how to silence instance", or whatever you may need?

We as mod are also always here to answer doubts and help our users to get the best out of this place, but no, I personally would never take the arrogant decision of what is good or bad for others to be exposed to.

Please, @evaristus , if we want to talk about it in a serious way could you please open a topic on discourse? We encourage this kind of discussion and it would be easier for anyone to follow.

@Monolithicman Probably going elsewhere. I'll still post from @realcaseyrollins but @a's recent retarded and unhinged behavior is sadly driving me away.

@freemo
Thank you for the tag, the notification brought me back.

I am glad Evaristus posted the original message yesterday -- specially since it allowed a discussion and clarifications that involved users not only from Qoto, but from other instances as well.

I posted information that I discovered myself, and I think allows any user to control their exposure to unwanted instances and content.

I plan to create more permanent Forum posts in our Discourse forum -- there it can have a permanente URL, I can use enhanced text formatting like Bold, italics, and refer to it when needed.

Information posted simply in the mastodon feeds will quickly disappear, otherwise.

I am VERY grateful for our instance here having Full Text Search, which I use frequently to dig up my own posts to refer to new users.

Regarding the editorial choice of blocking content from porn or other instances :

I think the Laissez Faire (let it be in free translation) attitude is a good one. Followed by action and re-evaluation in case of any problems or complaints.

It's like a large news agent in the Federated feed. I do object to some I see flying by, or even what is shown right at the front door on some Pleroma instances.

But I have the choice to stay away from these, and reduce Clutter, porn, even possible hate speech by blocking whole instances that I, as a user, decide are not at all productive for me.

I see this as a combination of light moderation and helping the users learn about the content control power they do have; and are free to use at their discretion.

Sorry for the long post, friends.

@evaristus @realcaseyrollins @arteteco @mngrif @Surasanji

@evaristus

I understand, and I very much appreciate you sharing your perspective.

I wonder, did you read our about page before joining. The fact that we are moderated in this way is something we are rather explicit about.

As for if we struck a good balance or not, well I guess thats not for me to decide. Ultimately if the users are unhappy about something I'd want to hear it. Thats why I suggest opening a discourse topic if it is important to you.

@realcaseyrollins