Hey kids, I hate to share bad news but the racists are here. Still low-key, but definitely seeing more of them in the last several days.
Just blocked one who's doing a year-end rundown of his social media apps like Parler, Gettr, and Gab.
Another block today was a supposed Ukrainian arguing with several Black people and using "pidgin" English in their bio where they explicitly state they're neither Black, nor African.
Not yet overt, but the wave is clearly here.
Be prepared, Block liberally.
While blocking is a good tool, if you're using the web interface I also recommend Reporting egregious breaches, both to your local moderation team (the default report) and also forward the report to the instance the perpetrator is on (an additional checkbox on the web interface).
This allows for the both your moderators and the other servers moderators to be made aware of the bad behaviour of the user. To be fair, your moderation team probably can't do much about the user on another server, but they can monitor the other server's response to the bad behaviour. If the other server takes no action, that is a statement in itself.
Community responsibility builds better communities. Blocking so you can't see them doesn't stop the underlying problem, which is the problem user.
Ricardo Harvin
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