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If you're looking at that "Laurie Voss" @[email protected] thing you *really* need to click through and read all the way down the comments

That clown showed up on Mastodon earlier today and was *not* well-received, to put it mildly

The majority of responders ended up #Muting, #Blocking and #DomainBlocking his entire little self-hosted vacuum cleaner

He's quite proud of himself and the responses he got

A bright-eyed little troll coder-bro, IMO...

YMMV...

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Dark Lord Merc :downey: Jan 9

@fif @anna erm #muting this thread

Jonathan Emmesedi Jul 7, 2025

I wonder how many people have blocked or muted me here. As far as I'm aware, there is no way of finding out.

I know of three users who have blocked me, but there could be many more. Two of those announced they were going to do so, while I discovered the other block myself.People don't say if they are muting you, so I could be silenced by hundreds! Somebody suggested they were using hashtags to mute my Kpop posts; that's fine with me, as I have no desire to clutter timelines with unwanted material.

I do very little blocking and muting myself. I have blocked and reported a handful of users whose posts were blatantly racist or antisemitic. I also had to do the same to a user who posted what appeared to be child pornography. Generally, however, I try to be as open minded as possible; I don't think it's good for me to hide away from stuff I disagree with or dislike.

I have muted a few* users whose posting threatened to overwhelm my timeline. I feel a little bad about that, because they are probably nice people who are unaware that I have chosen to put their passions aside.

Do others block and mute more than I do?

*EDIT More than " a few" -- 29, in fact, when I looked earlier today to see how many I had muted. So perhaps I'm not as open minded as I thought!

#SocialMedia #Mastodon #Block #Muting #Mute

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Kevin Karhan

Apr 22, 2025

@debby @DroidPort personally, I think the "optics" of leaving the #Fediverse are more important and are seen as silent confirmation of valid criticism.

Cuz even if I'd be annoying the shit out of @protonprivacy (and I doubt that!) there are ample of tools for them like #muting and #blocking.

Tools they'd inevitably have to use anywhere else too, regardless if #Shitter, #BrownSky, #NSAbook, etc. even if it's just to do #moderation as in reporting & blocking #Shitcoin-#Scammers and #bots pushing #phishing linksvunder their posts...

Kevin Karhan :verified: (@[email protected])

@[email protected] that assumes @[email protected] actually cares about #Privacy, which they [evidently](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCx_G_R0UmQ) [don't](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeXaYR4ed9c), cuz otherwise they'd never even #log or #request any #PII to begin with and instead offer their Services via @[email protected] / #Tor as #OnionService… - Not to mention they fuck around with customers' #eMails, thus having prevented people from cntributing tovthe #LKML in the past... To me [this](https://hear-me.social/@debby/114075194499417075) isn't a big loss, but a *conditionless surrender* in favour of *better competitiors* like @[email protected] and even @[email protected] for that matter...

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