Mastodawn

Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator Dec 26, 2022

We've silenced mastodon.se and will suspend in a week.

https://blog.mastodon.se/inl%C3%A4gg/%C3%A5siktspolis/

This is a blog post by the admin of mastodon.se where they acknowledge that they have 'anti-political-correctness' accounts, anti-abortionists, harassers, etc. (there are neo-nazi adjacent accounts on there), saying they won't action their accounts because they don't want to be the 'thought police'.

As these kinds of accounts directly threaten the safety of the marginalised people on .art, we'll be defederating.

Åsiktspolis

Update clarification: I want to re-affirm that Mastodon.se has rules against xenophobia, transphobia, among other things, and we will uphold these rules. Nothing has changed on that front. The users who inspired this post had not broken any of those rules. This post was made to try and define how Mastodon.se will handle when reports come in for accounts that are simply openly affiliated with a certain political party, without having broken any rules yet.

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Sheila DeBonis Dec 26, 2022

@Curator This is an instance that serves Swedes and Swedish speakers, I take it? I am somewhat surprised that the "skinhead" demographic is growing, as Sweden had been such a liberating stalwart for progressive ideology. But attitudes change, and fascist, authoritarian nationalism has come into fashion across other large nations, like India, China, Hungary, Turkey, and (especially) Russia. Good on you for taking action. I hope the good Swedes find a new instance.

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Day Dec 26, 2022

@sheiladebonis @Curator That's what sucks about this, I think. A lot of people who have nothing to do with this stuff will also get defederated.

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Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator Dec 26, 2022

@thymos @sheiladebonis Then they should approach the instance admin and demand they do better, or move to an instance that doesn't tolerate hate speech. :)

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Day Dec 27, 2022

@Curator @sheiladebonis Sure, but meanwhile they've been blocked, right?

I'm on a big server, bad stuff could happen here beyond my control and without my knowledge, and then I would get defederated. And then I would have to move to another server or complain and wait for stuff to change. It just sucks.

I'm sure that the vast majority of users on that server did nothing wrong but they do have to suffer the consequences. And it might scare people off of the platform.

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Paul H (he/him)

@thymos @Curator @sheiladebonis it's not difficult to join a new instance and why would anyone want to continue to support an instance that believes in giving support to openly hateful individuals? Many folks have no issue leaving a place that gives leeway to hate.