Being on this massive instance that so many instances are #defederating from is bumming me out a bit. For a few reasons, I’m staying put (for now). I wonder if there are any solutions being explored by @Gargron and his team to establish more effective moderation processes? Is there any hope the other #instances won’t defederate from mastodon dot social?
@serenebabe @Gargron why are they defederating from mastodon.social?
I think in some ways it’s bound to occur, some people really like bubbles, and if your in one of those bubbles and don’t want to be, you should move on. But being isolated from one of those bubbles should not be too much of a concern. The people in there either will move, or want to be there.
There’s some pretty isolated bubbles out there!
@ku7 because of the racism, and I think, possibly anti-trans harmful behaviors? Basically, insufficient moderation, as far as I understand it.
@serenebabe @ku7 All of it is false.
@Gargron instances aren’t defederating from us?
I know @freemo led a charge to defederate against mastodon.social after Eugen supported a Nazi’s misinformation and spam campaign, but IDK how many people listened to him.
@realcaseyrollins @Gargron @serenebabe that doesn't sound like @freemo ...
This is a lie, check the internet archive to confirm, our moderation policies remained unchanged.
Also i never led a campaign to have the fediverse ddfederate from mastodon.social, but i did bring to light gargron delisting us following the misinformation campaign.
The mass email he refers to is referenced in the article. It was an attempt to reach out to admins and correct the information in the misinformation campaign and thus directly related to gargrons decision as he admits here.