Jerry 🦙💝🦙Nov 20, 2022
Hello everyone. I made a decision regarding the events happening on journa.host. Journa.host is currently limited on infosec.exchange and will be moving to defederation if there are not improvements on journa.host. I've documented the situation and reasoning here: https://blog.infosec.exchange/2022/11/20/an-update-on-journa-host/
An update on Journa.host

The fediverse instance Journa.host, which was created to cater to current and retired journalists, faced some serious challenges over the past few days. One of their members posted a link to an art…

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Show threadSteve ☕️🥋🌯Nov 20, 2022

@jerry I appreciate this writeup and for running a very stable instance with very little of the nonsense you describe the moderation team dealing with.

What is unclear is that it seems like you're taking this action against an instance because a user posted a link to a NYT article, and there was a resulting dustup between some people as a result, but that the core issue is that someone posted a link to a NYT article? Is that the issue that you think needs moderating? Or was there something more?

Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Nov 20, 2022
@realDannyDorko It is the handling of the situation more than the NYT post that is driving this. apologies if that did not come through well - I will look at how to make it more clear.
Show threadJesse Harris
@jerry @realDannyDorko Certainly appreciate this. I have several friends on that instance that I would hate to lose contact with, so I hope any decision to apply more stringent moderation won't come lightly. Limited seems to be a reasonable middle ground option to limit the impact of those moderation failures here while allowing users the ability to follow individuals who set up shop there.
Nov 20, 2022 at 5:08pmWeb