The kolektiva.info domain is down, taking down the donation link for kolektiva.social and kolektiva.media with it. Even worse, anybody who throws $100 at Godaddy will own the domain, and can hijack the current donations url.

I reached out privately to @admin but got no response. Shouting this into the void now...

Perhaps tagging #kolektivamod helps...

Can someone from #KolektivaMod #Kolektiva or @moderation reach out to @smeg

My instance is on the kolektiva moderated server list, and I would like to see if it would be possible to return to good standing. Not sure why the block started to begin with. I tried the admin email, but it bounced back.

Thanks!

#kolektivamod

Hi Kolektiva sysadmins -- this account was created with a username that was not the requested username.

Help?

Can this account's username be changed to the one that was requested when this account was created?

The is nothing in the post that was removed in the KOLEKTIVA.SOCIAL CODE OF CONDUCT so this removal was a personal preference of one of the mods, can someone have a word with them and put the post back, thanks.

Posts removed

Some of your posts have been found to violate one or more community guidelines and have #KolektivaMod.

Removed by the moderators of kolektiva.social.

Please refrain from demanding that other users explain their technical posts. Some people are coders/programmers and like to talk about programming and troubleshooting issues that might only make sense to other people who are working on those projects, or who are familiar with that programming language.

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witchescauldron @witchescauldron

@thisismissem

This is likely a "problem" a #geekproblem what exactly are you complaining about, make this visible to the 99.9% of people who make up the #Fediverse please. What is the social issue this tech is about, so people can engage, thanks.

#OMN #openweb

Mar 27, 2024, 18:01 GMT

Yesterday, our mod team began receiving a number of reports about one of our users, who had repeatedly expressed criticism of #TheBadSpace. To the best of our knowledge, this exchange involved a series of comments on a thread about the prospects of collective, decentralized blocklists, followed by a post on their own timeline in which they called out The Bad Space, listed the instances participating as Sources for its rating system, and linked to an article on the subject that was critical of the project. The post framed Kolektiva's inclusion on The Bad Space list as an 'attack on our community', and could be reasonably construed as an effort to rally users to respond to this 'attack.'

While some members of our mod team were already familiar with the controversy around The Bad Space, and the litany of accusations of anti-Black racism and transphobia/transmisogyny associated with these debates, this understanding was not equally shared across our team. It should be mentioned that our moderation team is composed of volunteers who do our best to keep on top of the moderation load as best we can, when we can. Several times since 2020, we have been caught off-guard by a snowballing controversy that most of our active mods needed some time to learn about and properly understand.

In an effort to avoid further escalation and division, and to avoid contributing to a new wave of harassment of Black and trans Mastodon users, one of our mods temporarily froze and limited the #Kolektiva user's account yesterday. This was done to give our team time to all research the issue and discuss it collectively (because that is how Kolektiva operates, for better or worse).

The post calling out The Bad Space and its partipating Source instances has been removed for violating of our code of conduct - specifically our policy against targeted harassment.

We realize that people are going to be upset with Kolektiva actions. Unfortunately, we see that as fairly unavoidable in situations like this.

Members of the Kolektiva mod team share concerns about the potential abuse of power that stems from centralized block lists, and the way that these threats can be magnified by the personal biases of the instance moderators who are tasked with deciding who gets included on these lists. That said, we also fundamentally respect instance operators' right to decide who they want to federate with, and we understand and appreciate the important role that tools like The Bad Space play in seeking to address the very real oppression and harassment faced by marginalized communities on the fediverse. As anarchists, we understand these efforts as manifestations of the principles of autonomy and voluntary association.

As we research this issue further, we encourage people to reach out to members of our mod team to share past or current examples of anti-Black racism or transphobia related to this issue, particularly if you think it provides pertinent context to this current situation.

We thank people for their patience and support, and encourage everyone to avoid playing broken telephone and otherwise furthering divisions between already maginalized groups.

Finally, we refer people to our About section, and specfically to the sections on Targeted Harassment, and the headings SAFETY AND DANGER ON THE FEDIVERSE and DEFEDERATING FROM OTHER INSTANCES.

https://kolektiva.social/about

#FediBlockMeta #KolektivaMod