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Michael Downey 🧢RE: https://floss.social/@admin/116319431629873771
old enough to remember our server leading a principled stance against gab, facebook threads, and now llms.🩵
Consensus Tullyalityadmins: consider limiting cyberplace.social until they close signups
more than one new account today has replied to fediblock posts with clumsy AI videos mocking the fediblock tag
william.maggosis an account like this spamming hashtags such that it should be moderated at the server level (not just by individual users themselves)? I really don't know. It's not malicious but if you follow those hashtags, your feed is full of such posts. #fediblockmeta
https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116229013261903128
piegamesI wonder if the people who abuse the Fediblock hashtag for petty disputes and drama know that all the other admins are watching (even if only out of necessity), and silently updating their notes accordingly
The idea of a default blocklist for the fedi is not a horrible idea. Harassment (a refusal to police unwanted tagging) and malware are good reasons to defederate a server. But "hate speech" is not when it's never forced on you and everybody is allowed to say anything on a blog. And how should such a list be maintained? But I'm also glad it's public.
A good network requires both decent interaction norms and then an expectation of connection.
Empathy Forward, Inc.We would love to see hyperlocal Mastodon (or other fediverse software) instances. See https://www.empathyforward.org/2025/12/community-based-fediverse-instances/ for more thoughts on it. Of course, there are responsibilities.
We’re working on a service that can help manage the list of blocked and limited servers to make it easier to create a welcoming community. We are also considering adding some spam detection abilities as well.
What other services would help you create a great Mastodon community?
we need decentralized social media to be civil. that when we interact, it should be respectful even when we are critical. no matter how evil you think the person you are responding to is.
but when we are just posting our thoughts or boosting something and no one is being tagged, being angry or rude or misinformed should be accepted. someone who posts or boosts something you find problematic doesn't need to be blocked, just unfollow them. no algo will make you see it.
Admin 
We don't approve of "The Fedilore Otter" due to their obsession with stalking the Black queer users of the fediverse. Currently they're implying that a queer Black user who called out the following posts fetishizing "brown women" and bragging about their nazi ancestry, is bad.
Calling out the absent reference isn't bad. The issue here is that transtina has used women of color as a fetish publicly and then also described their nazi ancestors as "fun lore", which to people of color whom were/are targets of fascism, isn't "fun" and can't tell if you're joking.
The fediblock hashtag was called for by a Black trans person in this case, and as a general reminder, the fediblock hashtag was started by Marcia X, a person of color, to protect against serial sexual harassment. She has a write up here where she describes being stalked and dealing with racism.
When you make a post about Black, Indigenous, or other people of color, you consent to people of those communities deciding if what you've said is appropriate, because you're talking about them, without knowing what it's like to walk in their shoes.
Fedilore Otter targets 3-4 Black queer/trans users consistently and often uses the marginalizations of the (almost always white) individuals that are being called out for racism to make them appear more charitable. For instance, they'll say something like, "a Jewish run instance" or "a transfem run instance" as if that allows those instances to host racist users with no repercussions.
One marginalization does not justify you being racist though.
In this instance, fedilore has implied that being trans and Jewish allows for racism, and by doing so, they've also erased that the Black user they're targeting is also trans, because they want to make it seem as a random cis person is attacking a trans person, but that is not the case.
A Black trans person has called out a white trans person for racism, and nothing more.
Left photo, fedilore's post, right photo, the post that fedilore is defending.
Edit 1: updated after another user provided more info on Marcia X. Thank you!
Edit 2: Adding one of the blackqueer.life admin's evidence links as well:
https://blackqueer.life/@tillshadeisgone/113159014872182232
2somethingPeople liked my previous post providing advice to new fediverse users
https://transfem.social/notes/adhk91r22eiv0h80
so today I'm going to tackle a new topic: what is fediblock? If you've hung out here for bit, you may have heard someone talk about fediblock and not understood what they meant. What do people mean when they say "fediblock?"
Note: The intended audience of this post is users who are new to the fediverse trying to understand what's going on. It is not a guide to mods/admins. I am not qualified to write a guide on moderating on fedi. Hence, this post will contain simplifications of some ideas.
As stated in my previous post, moderation on the fediverse is handled by the living, breathing creatures who run your instance. When you report a post, a real person actually reads your report. But what happens after they read a report?
I'll use myself as an example. My full username is @[email protected]. The stuff that comes after the second "@" symbol is my instance: transfem.social. When I made my account, I agreed to the transfem.social terms of service, and only the mods of transfem.social can ban my account. If your username ends in anything other than "transfem.social," then you have a totally different team of mods and a totally different terms of service.
Let's imagine that I am scrolling through the fediverse and I see a post made by @[email protected]. The post says
The mods of transfem.social have a few options. The first one is that they can work together with the mods of example.com. The example.com mods could decide to delete the post or ban the user.
But what happens if the example.com mods decide that @[email protected] has done nothing wrong?
One option is that the transfem.social mods can hide the post, making it invisible to transfem.social users. The post is still there, and anyone who is not a transfem.social user can see it normally.
A more severe option is to suspend the user @[email protected]. If the mods take this step, it has the effect of all transfem.social users blocking the asshole automatically. The asshole is not banned from the fediverse: their account still works, they can continue to post. They just can't interact with transfem.social users.
As an even more extreme step, the mods of transfem.social could "defederate" from example.com. That would mean all transfem.social users automatically block all example.com users. Defederation can be very disruptive, especially if users from the two instances are already following each other. Most fedi mods will not use defederation without considering it very carefully. Defederation is commonly used to block instances with lots of illegal content, or instances completely dominated by bigotry.
I started this post by promising to tell you what "fediblock" is, but I haven't actually done that yet. The word fediblock (a portmanteau of "fediverse" and "block") has two slightly different meanings. Sometimes it is used as a synonym for defederation: One instance fediblocks another instance.
Other times, folks use the word fediblock to refer to talking about defederation: A mod could publicly post something like "My instance just defederated from example.com. If you're a mod of another instance, you should consider blocking them too!" Posts of this sort usually use the hashtag # fediblock.
The fediblock hashtag is mostly used by mods to communicate with mods of other instances, but anyone can use it. I made a fediblock post two years ago when I encountered an instance that was nothing but spambots.
It's usually recommended to use the fediblock hashtag only if you are explicitly calling for defederation of a specific instance. If you are just generally talking about fediblock, as I am doing in this post, it's common to use the hashtag #FediblockMeta instead.
In summary: Due to the fediverse not having a central authority, the way moderation works behind the scenes is more complicated. "fediblock" is a term used by mods communicating. As a non-mod user, you can usually ignore the complexities and just report bad stuff when you see it. But if you wanted to know what people are talking about when they talk about fediblock, I hope this post was enlightening.
@2something
Quick message to all fediverse newcomers: Moderation in the fediverse is done by humans. There are no bots that shadowban you based on detecting certain keywords. This has some important consequences: 1) If you see a rule-breaking post, click the "report" button and write a report. The actual living, breathing creatures who run your instance will review the report. The location of the report button varies depending on your client/app software: it's usually near "reply" or "boost." 2) The text you write in a report matters, because it will be read by an actual person. The mods are *not* just counting the number of reports. 3) If you're talking about a sensitive topic like suicide, you should *not* bleep it out like "sui-de". You won't be banned for typing the actual word out. You should instead use a content warning for your post to warn your readers. Some users who don't wish to see certain topics can voluntarily apply word filters to their own timelines, and bleeping words is rude because it bypasses their filters. 4) If you get a DM saying something like >Your account has been automatically disabled due to suspicious activity. Please click hear to verify your identity it is a scam! There is no AI to automatically disable your account! You should report the scam message. #FediTips