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Roni Rolle Laukkarinen Aug 5, 2023

During my one year activity on the #Fediverse I've now seen at least four instance admins quitting from being an admin or shutting down their server. Half of these cases were admins being dickheads and the rest of them were mostly about users being dickheads leading admin getting burned out.

Both outcomes are unfortunate, but the latter makes me sad. Why do we have to harass and doxx an admin here for such pseudetical reasons like extensive open text search feature? I don't get humans sometimes.

I repeat: We are not free from toxicity on the Fediverse. Be kind. Make a chance.

#MastoAdmin #Fediverse #SocialMedia

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Jon Aug 5, 2023

@rolle Universeodon's instance admin is the most recent example of somebody stepping down. Do you see that as an "unfortunate outcome"? If so, do you think it's an example of an admin being a dickhead, or users being dickheads?

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Roni Rolle Laukkarinen Aug 6, 2023

@jdp23 By unfortunate outcome I referred to this recent case of a Finnish admin who attacked his users after being sexist and ableist and then decided "Mastodon is dead to me" and informed to shut everything down without a warning as a revenge. There are similar cases of admins like this...

The latter one is different, it's about users targeting admins. I followed that carnage from the shadows. We have similar interests with supernovae, we have exchanged messages on GitHub, been a big help for me. In that particular case it's the users being dickheads.

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Jon Aug 6, 2023

@rolle that first case sounds really unfortunate. With Universeodon, though, we see it differently. Byron may have been helpful to you, but he was harassing others.

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Roni Rolle Laukkarinen Aug 6, 2023

@jdp23 Ok, I don't know the whole picture then.

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Jon

@rolle ah okay. Yes, it's very easy to just get a partial picture in situations like this ... here's a couple blog posts with the other side.

-- Oliphant's at https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/defederating-universeodon has some good perspectives

-- .art's at https://dotart.blog/welshpixie/the-toxic-manosphere-of-fedi

That's pretty much how it looks to me at well as well.

But I don't mean to undercut your point, users being dicks certainly contributes to administrator burnout. On larger instances, especially instances with open registrations, It's stressful even in the best of times. And federation means users on other instances can hassle you as well.

Defederating Universeodon

See the update at the bottom, as we have rescinded the suspension against Universeodon in a good-faith effort to reset relations. Olip...

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