Original version of this instance policy said: "Note that this server will not be shut down permanently for at least 12 months after the moment this notice is still there."
This changes today to "Note that this server will not be shut down permanently until at least March 13th, 2022."
Further service disruptions due to defederation are expected during the remaining year. You are advised to move to another instance.
I'm so tired of the meta.
No, pedophiles or fascists or nazis are absolutely not allowed to remain on this instance. They all should be suspended immediately.
But just saying "X is a pedophile" or "X is a nazi" does not make X a pedophile or a nazi.
If I receive a bunch of name-calling reports saying "X is pedo, suspend them at once, you nazi piece of shit" and do not act on them, it is not because this instance is welcome to pedophiles (it is not). It is because I do not think X is a pedophile (and also because calling me names does not make your argument any more compelling).
And it would require a bit more to convince me they're a pedophile than just posting taken-out-of-context screenshots of their controversial take on child autonomy, made two months ago on another instance - take that was posted from the perspective of children, and for which they already apologized.
Just stop dogpiling for once. Don't make it your life goal to expel this person from fedi for that one old take. Don't make it your life goal to drive them to suicide.
Maybe try checking the context of these screenshots.
Maybe try not automatically interpreting that take in bad faith.
Maybe try to think what would your reaction be if it was posted by someone just a couple of years younger, before their 18th birthday.
Unfortunately, elekk.xyz apparently suspended this instance, because its admins are not comfortable allowing their space (which includes minors) to overlap with this space.
I do not think that the person in question poses any danger to minors or breaks any rules, so I won't take any action on that, and the federation status between us and elekk.xyz will not change.
In practice this means that while this instance still receives (some) posts from elekk, interaction with elekk users will be impossible, your interactions (likes, boosts, replies, comments) will never reach elekk.
If you have friends on elekk, it might be time for you to look for another instance.
I would also like to use this opportunity to reiterate that child sexual abuse, child sexual abuse apologies, or apologies of any abuse of knowingly unhealthy power dynamics are not tolerated on this instance.
We cannot get any confirmation or explanation from hellsite admins because they ignore our enquiries. So we have no way of knowing if this situation could be resolved in any way in the future.
If you need to communicate with hellsite users, you should probably look for another instance.
We believe that hellsite approach to federation is irresponsible, and we would also recommend hellsite users to migrate another instance with more transparent moderation policy.
It looks like hellsite.site unfederated from this instance three days ago, without any notice or warning.
Hellsite does not make a list of blocked instances public, so we could not confirm it is that way. However, nothing seems to federate between our instance and hellsite.
We tried reaching out to hellsite admins from another instance, but they ignored our messages.
We do not know if it is a mistake; if not, we do not know what was the reason.
* It is possible that it was an actual person at that time.
* However, somewhere between March and October, someone gained a control on this user (or maybe it was an evildoer from the beginning), and started to follow users from other instances en masse. Including from nazi and "free speech" instances - one we did not yet know about, and so did not block. It followed about 250 users in total, mostly ones who post a lot.
This instance has faced federation problems for the past months (almost a year). Some other instances unfederated from it. Here is a brief outline of what happened:
* Originally (since its establishment in August 2018), this instance had open registrations. Anybody could register.
* On March 13, 2019, a new user @[email protected] registered there. It posted three toots during its life (I cannot recover the exact dates now)...
