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
Silencing Spinster Instance for all of QOTO, CW for Length
Do you think we could wait until @alex is back in town to proceed, so that he can check what's what and give us his opinion?
Silencing Spinster Instance for all of QOTO, CW for Length
I am in no particular rush. If alex specifically asks me to hold up judgement on our end while they discuss futher I would be happy to do so.
However the response I got from their admin sounded like it was their final decision, was very abrupt, left no room for discussion (and didnt welcome it), and frankly came across as an BS excuse that even she didnt buy but was using it as a scape goat.
So if that is truly the final decision then I'm not sure what waiting would matter. But if the admins reach out and say the recinde that final decision and would need more time to come up with their final decision, in that case I would have no objection to pushing the deadline for making the silence go live back a a day or two.
Ultimately alex would have to make that request though or someone else from the mod team there.
