Silencing Spinster Instance for all of QOTO, CW for Length
After much discussion among the mod team we've decided to silence the @spinster instance for QOTO users.
We do not take the silencing of an instance to be anything less than totally serious. We have had issues with being silenced and we do not wish to simply ban an instance because they disagree with us.
Abuse and harassment without moderator comment, however, is a different story.
There are many showings of misandry, anti-trans ideologies, and abusive behaviors dressed up in the guise of 'Protecting an Oppressed Class'.
We at QOTO do acknowledge that there are a great many issues facing women in this world, and that indeed the current social structure of society is almost certainly stacked against them, as it is other oppressed and minority groups.
We cannot, however, support an instance that has little to no moderation of it's more extreme elements that cross the lines of understood acceptable behavior on Mastodon.
It is important to note that this is not necessarily a permanent decision. Should Spinster change their moderation stance on their users and begin to better police their instance we will be happy to unsilence and try again to have a relationship with these people who are undoubtedly trying to fight for what they feel is correct.
As I have said before, and will say again:
It isn't what you say that's important, it is how you say it.
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Silencing Spinster Instance for all of QOTO, CW for Length
As a fellow moderator of QOTO I, of course, agree with this decision.
I would like to add that should a moderator or admin of spinster wish to reach out to me to discuss this issue further I can always be reached here: jeffrey.freeman@qoto.org and a general message to the qoto staff in general can be done by reaching us at our discourse server as well: https://discourse.qoto.org
While we will wait until the day is over to activate the silence after that no QOTO users, including mods, will receive messages from spinster, as such we will need to be reached through one of the side channels above should there be a need.
