Mastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorDec 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.

Show threadEric DannewitzDec 26, 2022

@Curator

Sad they won't moderate. Sorta a thing you have to do if you are running an Instance.

#fediblock

Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorDec 26, 2022
@ericdano Yeah. "I want to give space to people to change their minds" is fine if you're an individual - not if you're hosting a public forum with a responsibility to the users of that forum and the places it connects to.
Show threadEric DannewitzDec 26, 2022

@Curator

Yes. I have had to wield the moderation hammer a couple of times in the week or so since I went form 10 users to 1600 users.

Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorDec 26, 2022
@ericdano A bunch of fedi admins have piled into the .art Discord backrooms where we communicate on problems and support each other, if you'd be interested in joining?
Show threadMichael Downey 🧢Dec 26, 2022

@Curator @ericdano

Any reason y'all don't join the federated Mastodon Admins chat on Matrix? 600 of us:

https://matrix.to/#/#mastodon_admin:matrix.org

You're invited to talk on Matrix

You're invited to talk on Matrix

Show threadTim WDec 27, 2022
@downey @Curator @ericdano speaking for myself, Matrix is "a platform too far", don't want to add more to my comms platform overload.
Show threadMichael Downey 🧢Dec 27, 2022

@tw

Interesting perspective. I use #Matrix to connect to literally every other communication platform, so I only have one to manage.

@Curator @ericdano

Show threadTim WDec 27, 2022
@downey That is an intriguing option. Looks like it basically requires you to run your own Matrix homeserver? Might be worth it to consolidate though... @Curator @ericdano
Show threadMichael Downey 🧢

@tw That's one way. Also there are hosting providers that offer bridges, such as the Element project team that have a personal level option with several popular services:

https://element.io/element-one

Element One | All messages in the Element App

Bring your WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram chats into Element. It’s Element, hosted and bridged, for speed and ease.

Dec 27, 2022 at 3:33pmWeb
Show threadMichael Downey 🧢Dec 27, 2022

@tw If people want to self-host (which, like Mastodon, is ideally better for the long run) there is a relatively low-effort option available using Ansible & Docker:

https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

GitHub - spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy: 🐳 Matrix (An open network for secure, decentralized communication) server setup using Ansible and Docker

🐳 Matrix (An open network for secure, decentralized communication) server setup using Ansible and Docker - spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

GitHub