In case anybody is confused about what is going on with todon.nl and todon.eu:
- About a week ago, a fairly new todon.nl user jumped over from BlueSky to harass a trans woman on fedi.
- That harassment is based on a lot of very niche queer politics from Tumblr.
- This harassment has escalated into the todon.nl user making at least five fake accounts to dodge blocks.
- Todon.nl has taken no actions to stop this harassment.
The niche queer politics are all based on a series of decades old Tumblr posts that nobody read, but roughly speaking:
- There is a conspiracy theory that trans women all hate men and want to force everybody to become women.
- Trans women are impacted by misogyny and sometimes talk about things like feminism and patriarchy, just like cis women do.
- People find a trans woman talking about feminism, and then justify harassment with the conspiracy theory.
One thing to keep an eye out for is the acronym "TIRF".
The entire point of the acronym is that it's pronounced identically to "TERF".
It's obviously cruel to call trans women TERFs, so people who want to be cruel to trans women reverse engineered an acronym to do that.
That makes it really easy to to identify this sort of extremely-online transmisogynist harassment.
Notionally, TIRF stands for "trans-inclusive radical feminist".
If you ignore the homophone, TIRF is so meaningless as to be nonsensical because:
- Being trans-inclusive is a good thing.
- Radical feminism is just any feminism that has the goal of abolishing patriarchy.
Most modern feminists are both trans-inclusive and radical feminists.
It feels strange to call a feminist "trans-inclusive" or "radical" because those things are kind of just the default.
I don't want to direct more harassment towards the person being harassed, and I suspect the person doing the harassment is a confused teenager.
I am not going to post screenshots and I am not asking you to block anybody.
My hope is that instance admins will learn to identify this sort of conspiracy-based transphobic harassment and protect their users from it when they see it.
@fedilore I just want to note that, rather than making any statements, clarifying themselves, or taking action against clearly harassment-based accounts on their instance, the Todon.nl admin has added an angry statement to their bio, and done nothing else.
This is in response to my initial report when the post first went live, the takedown request I made, the follow-up, and my communication with his instance host on defamation, and the legality of defamation in the Netherlands.
I am now receiving random attacks every few hours wherein I now have to use scripts to auto-suspend any remote users on brand new accounts, and this has been going on for 2 weeks now.
You shouldn't harass anyone, but moderation this negligent should require a fediverse-wide response.
@cmdr_nova @fedilore +9001%
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@cmdr_nova @fedilore the priblem are what people do to other people.
I'm really sorry for you, but I know this is a huge Problem!
@rozeboosje @cmdr_nova @fedilore that depends on the used software...
Some clients [i.e. @Tusky] allow the choice to block/mute an entire domain.
In Mastodon, a workaround is to go to /settings/imports[i.e. https://masto.ai/settings/imports in your case] whilst being logged in and then create a text file with one domain per line and no comments.
i.e.
the fediXXlore otteXXr
T. J. Bombadil
Valerie of the Baeddel 🏳️⚧️
Kevin Karhan
Pino Carafadomain.example
example.com
...
and import that as domain blocking list and that should then be processed.
merge is selected.@rozeboosje @cmdr_nova @fedilore @Tusky np.
In the regular Webinterface you should also find the option to block domain...
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Also when you open up someone's profile there should be a hidden menu with `...` that then allows you to select `block domain` at the bottom of the list...
... that then allows you to select block domain at the bottom of the list...
@rozeboosje @cmdr_nova @fedilore @Tusky you're welcome.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I can recommend testing it with [domains that you ain't gonna miss *"overblocking"* on your end.]( https://github.com/greyhat-academy/lists.d/blob/main/activitypub.domains.block.list.tsv)
@rozeboosje @cmdr_nova @fedilore @Tusky what is way more complex however is blocking all the followers of an account...
There's yet no good tool for that nor functioning #API.
Julian 
