Peter RelphAs an example of what awaits the unwary in Aus.Social:
A thread of what was sufficient to get me banned there after only a few hours & talking to my first native.
Originally on Twitter
First contact, "friendly" request to anyone not to post what he doesn't like & my response to being told that I should hide something that I talk about all the time, namely #auspol
Not sure if he deleted a toot of his here or whether I just followed up with this
Me responding to a toot that just seems to have disappeared where he equated #auspol with "angry political rants" & "nonsense", you can guess some of it from my quotes
Me responding to another toot that disappeared, almost everything before the 'ie.' was probably cut & pasted by me, the latter part is mine
My final toot that night, nothing of mine has been deleted or edited. My reference to him as his own Elon is to his presumed ownership of the angrydome.au instance.
Next morning I woke to discover that I have been suspended from Aus.Social & I noticed more edifying toots in Chris' timeline. The 5 quotes of mine in the thread were the only evidence shown to me by Aus.Social as to why I was banned
Tread warily #auspol
Wrap up, I have retreated from Aus.social to Mastodon.social where I'd been for about a week before thinking Aus.social made more sense (it didn't)
I've blocked Chris' angrydome.au instance, it has been an interesting day #auspol
Ends
Well, it almost ended.
Post Script:
I definitely learnt a lesson from joining Aus Dot Social, (or in Chris' terms "trying" to join, however it was not the lesson that Chris or the Moderator wanted me to get.
The lesson I learnt was "mad house sociopath & amateurs, give it a wide berth"
💧Tawdry бот Strumpet@peterrelph Ooo, how do you block an instance?
@duncanbourne It is an option on the post's menu, at the bottom of the ... menu