is 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
I 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.
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.
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
People 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
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. #FediTips
Just found out this account exists: @8124
It reports on what it considers antisemitism. Sometimes I might agree. Sometimes it might be slanderous. But what's interesting here imo is using these claims to try to censor the fedi. How lefties are more likely to validate such demands re racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic etc posts.
Same shit. Unless it's illegal, unwanted tagging or something posted on your server - it should all be ignored. Keep it open like the web.
From now on, whenever I report a new remote troll, I'm going to include "please moderate your signups" in the report.
I might add "Or pay me for doing your moderation work." at some later point.
#moderation #MastodonSocial #FediBlockTrolls #FediMod #FediAdmin #MastoMod #MastoAdmin #FediBlockMeta
We noticed that disabled.social is being disparaged openly and we would like to make an official post defending them and requesting a fediblock of the person who is after that instance. Attached you'll find screenshots of the user in question and what they said to get an official strike from disabled.social. Users of this instance reported @[email protected] because of the following post in the first screenshot.
The reason it was reported is that the (war) game in question, The Campaign for North Africa, is a nazi game about colonizing Africa. The game is played with 10 players. 5 of the players are required to be nazis. The game takes over 1000 hours complete and can't be played unless 5 players cosplay as nazis during that time. The cover of the board game features a well known nazi.
The game allows whomever wins to colonize Africa. Due to its featuring of nazis and colonization, we do not allow playing this game on our instance and reported it to disabled.social.
Being Jewish is not an excuse to fantasize about being a nazi or colonizing Africa.
The admins of disabled.social took down fallonturing's post that is screenshoted below and this caused fallonturing to be upset and call the admins of disabled.social antisemitic. fallonturing's backlash is what got them removed from the instance. Had they just accepted that nazi cosplay is not a joke, they would still have their account.
We'd also like to comment on the fact that the reason the admins took as long as they did to respond is because they're disabled and actively going through surgeries at the moment. They have limited spoons for these kinds of things and do their best.
We've included a second screenshot of the post made from @[email protected] that triggered us creating this post to clear disabled.social's name.
Note: This post is not a location where nazi wargamers are welcome to discuss their opinions. Should they do so, they will be suspended immediately.
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