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Official sock puppet account of the weirder.earth admin team.
On December 14th, shortly before the fediblock post about Anna from witches[.]live, we sent the following:
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While we understand there might be a lot going on and are not pushing for an immediate resolution, we would like to check in to make sure our prior message didn't get lost. Please let us know if you've received our prior DM on Dec. 10.
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They replied promptly to let us know that they had and to apologize for being busy. As of today, they have had a full week to stop being busy and respond. As of today, they have not responded.
Presuming there are no changes to their moderation, Weirder Earth will, per our usual policy when dealing with instances that have many cross-follows, be suspending kolektiva.social seven days from the time of this post, on December 25th.
Later on the 10th, we replied with this, focusing specifically on Eris from Disqordia in the interest of being clear.
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This is a frustrating response to receive, but you said you had difficulty navigating the threads. We'd like to highlight a single exchange documented in them. For context, @packbat is Black.
The first screenshot is of https://akko.disqordia.space/notice/AMOna3GxzSqiJN6t9M and one of its replies. Both posts were made by Eris on August 11th.
The second is from an August 13th thread by the Packbats, https://weirder.earth/@packbat/108815931937152540 - the second of the five links we sent you about Eris's anti-ubuntu.buzz campaign.
The third requires a content warning for suicide, and comes from the akko.disqordia.space thread above. Puf shared this screenshot in https://rage.love/@puf/108829477530153878 on August 15th.
We consider it clear that Eris directed abusive language at the Packbats, a Black plural system.
Let us know if you want additional documentation of misconduct.
e̷r̴i̸s̶ :verifiedpurple: (@[email protected])
ah yes Disqordia, the instance that runs on Ubuntu, isn't Ubuntu enough for ubuntu.buzz lol
Given https://ubiqueros.com/notes/98t4vk2u1q regarding anti-Blackness from Kolektiva, the Weirder Earth mods would like to summarize for #fediblock our recent DMs with Kolektiva's mods on an unrelated issue.
On December 2nd, we warned them about two instances with a history of anti-Black harassment, akko.disqordia.space and social.xenofem.me. They asked for more information, and we shared five threads on Eris's campaign against ubuntu.buzz, a Black-centric instance that got harassed off fedi three months ago:
1. https://rage.love/@puf/108806514088155480
2. https://weirder.earth/@packbat/108815931937152540
3. https://rage.love/@puf/108829477530153878 (cw: suicide mention)
4. https://weirder.earth/@packbat/108992791415798214
5. https://weirder.earth/@packbat/109430760505891265
and linked to the followees list of vrtra, a xenofem mod - https://social.xenofem.me/vrtra?tab=followees - showing accounts from kiwifarms[.]cc, bae[.]st, iddqd[.]social, and freespeechextremist[.]com. (Attached is a screenshot from the 3rd.)
On the 10th, subMedia informed us, on behalf of Kolektiva, that they would take no action.
Ro (@Are0h)
I had my doubt about kolektiva[DOT]social, but as I just discovered Anna from witchesDOTlive has found a home there, that's an immediate #fediblock for me Anna is well known to be on of the primary antagonists of PV back in the day, enabling all sorts of racist and anti-black against my team and me, and whenever I would pushback against their harassment, they would call me transphobic, which is a very common methodology racists use when they want to harass Black and Brown people, but don't want to be viewed as bigots. Anna is one of the worst actors in the fedi, and anyone that gives that person a home cannot be trusted. (📎2)
@fey no idea! i've found that sometimes i have to hover my mouse over animated gif avatars to get them to load properly; otherwise, it might be some sort of federation glitch. can you DM an example of a user with a gif avatar for me to try? leave off the '@' so it won't pull them in to the DM.
@j12i @rosebuck Hi, this is indeed a feature we introduced for accessibility, so there's nothing wrong our your end here. There's no easy way to turn it off.
If it helps, this is the specific snippet of code we use: https://gist.github.com/FiXato/3de505b04efefd49a1e3568b70545234
Depending on what browser you're using, there might be a plugin that lets you override or block certain elements.
https://weirder.earth/custom.css the file being loaded is here, you could block that file individually but it would also break the other custom css.
- Siem/ @human_dude
CSS user style to add a red border around media (images, audio, video and animated 'gifv') that lacks a description. Based on code by Paul: https://linernotes.club/@balrogboogie
CSS user style to add a red border around media (images, audio, video and animated 'gifv') that lacks a description. Based on code by Paul: https://linernotes.club/@balrogboogie - Mastodon-...
@dzuk blocked, thanks for the heads up!
@overhacked Glad to hear it!
- @packbat
@motorcitydave @scattermoon Sorry about the server migration troubles, we understand that onboarding new users isn't very user-friendly here, and this has been a chaotic period for the fediverse as a whole.
Mastodon generally requires you to approve follow requests from any instance that's silenced by the one you're on, but we don't know why Mastodon wouldn't automatically approve the follows created from an account migration. As far as we're aware, there's no way we can fix this from here - it's either a bug on Weirder Earth or an oversight in Mastodon's design. Wish we could be more help.
@mrencyclopedia If you help us find the source for installing it, let us know - it's not going to be the default but we're open to adding it as an option.