I had three people separately respond to my last toot with one letter each, in the span of 30 minutes, spelling out the first three letters of the N word.
Am I wrong to guess that this is some intentionally racist behavior? I looked at each of the profiles and they each seem otherwise normal.
WTF is going on here? Is this common?
@fourmajor
It will not. Welcome to the actual internet. Blocking does not work on a federated platform.
It is both an exercise in free speech, and for trolling twitter emigrants whom tend to hate fun and seem to physically take damage from taboo words.
It will not. Welcome to the actual internet. Blocking does not work on a federated platform.
It is both an exercise in free speech, and for trolling twitter emigrants whom tend to hate fun and seem to physically take damage from taboo words.
To explain, it takes less than a minute to make an account on a different fedi instance, or another account on the same one.
People can run their own single user server in some lawless part of the world and still communicate with fedi, because it is a protocol like what is used with email. Blocking is similar to blocking email spammers. If you are interesting enough to end up on a list, nothing manual you do will keep up.
Yeah. "Tend to hate fun" is a glib comment. It is more so that people from standard media tend to be more sheltered, and this creates a one-dimensional personality that has the same unaware totalitarian political opinions that we have heard many times before, therefore not a lot fun for me. And such a person is unlikely to understand internet culture and just feel offended.
You seem like a pretty normal person. So it was probably just the twitter immigrant keyword that caught attention. Everybody is likely bored now.
But if you introduced yourself as the trans-groomer antichrist or something, you would not be able see regular messages through the volume of hate mail.