Stop Using Threads consumes a list of users and tells you which of those users interact with Threads. You can use it to remove Threads participants from your timeline.
You can find out the tool's opinion on you by entering your own name, or you can just Submit with default settings to find out about Gargron.
Difficulties: On Mastodon I had two accounts on different instances. It took some some to decide which to keep and which to deactivate. Not a big problem, as I am not a very active user.
I’ve been using Lemmy since the early days. It was harder to choose an instance on Lemmy than Mastodon.
I have never managed to find a PeerTube instance that I could use for uploading.
So, main difficulty would be time spent lookin for instances.
Challenges: I have never really spent time trying to attract users. When describing it to some people they liked the idea, but wouldn’t move to a social network where their friends were not.
Experience: Positive overall. I have had exactly one confusing problem with another user. I will say that there are some strongly opinionated people on Fedi. Instances do create groupthink which can lead to biases, but I was aware of that before onboarding.
Feedback: The Fediverse is a good social network for many different people. It appears to me that Fedi can be quite welcoming to neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ communities. There is a political leaning, at least on the instances I see. I wouldn’t say there is a slant, but when opposing opinions collide, wording matters because #FediBlock is a thing. I am of the opinion that improvement should come about organically. Forcing changes is pointless, unless you are a developer who can suggest a way to make the improvement a reality.
New users to Mastodon (and Fedi as a whole) need to understand that “quote-tooting” isn’t a thing, monetisation isn’t a goal, and it will never be a 1:1 clone of Twitter, Reddit or Instagram.
Any of you getting connection requests from a "VIVIT" (or something similar) whose BIO states it's a bot created to connect with admins of servers? Seems sus to me.
BUT, if I search the tag on other servers I have accounts on, I get the results you show.
So.. either my server is misconfigured somehow, or I'm SO blocked that I can't see any of the people who are talking about the #fediblock in the first place.
#fosstodon today banned my account in a blatant show of bigotry. They hide behind the fact that I asked for help to get my meds, but they have routinely shown bigotry and hatred to LGBT posters. I am banning them on my instance and calling for a #fediblock until they reverse my account ban and pledge to stop targeting LGBT members of the #foss community.
They also give out a defunct email to send appeals to. This should violate the Mastodon Code many of us admins signed in to. But why call out bad behavior when you can foster it in large instances. #fosstodon#fediblock#Mastodon
mastodon.art has decided to suspend firefish.social from their instance due to issues with its administrator. The administrator of firefish.social was found to be boosting posts from a known harasser on another instance. mastodon.art takes a firm stance against racism and suspending full instances in these situations is part of...
The actual issue is, that as an instance admin who had previously been in the loop for some time with #fediblock and other channels in which admins share this kind of info, folks expected him to already have disqordia blocked.
Also, it seems from his posts elsewhere that he actually was aware and didn’t care. Ample reason to defederate from .art’s perspective. (Firefish.social has subsequently silenced but not blocked disqordia)
All of this is relatively routine, the screenshot fabrication thing more unusual.
Mastodon, an alternative social network to Twitter, has a serious problem with child sexual abuse material according to researchers from Stanford University. In just two days, researchers found over 100 instances of known CSAM across over 325,000 posts on Mastodon. The researchers found hundreds of posts containing CSAM related...
And the beauty of Mastodon is you can block an entire instance, as can your admin, when something awful is posted. Mastodon even has a hashtag they use as an alert for this kind of thing. (#Fediblock)
@cat_static@GjikaPhD@sociology@communicationscholars This excerpt sounds good in theory, but I'm not sure it is possible when literally anyone can download, install, and run a #Mastodon instance on their own. From what I have seen over the last year, #FediBlock does indeed work as a pretty good safety measure by large, but even that can't stop anyone from starting their own instance. What this writer is suggesting would require a complete revision of how Mastodon works. I suppose with the right programming anything is possible.
@cat_static@GjikaPhD@sociology@communicationscholars It should go without saying that just about everyone would take the safety of children over 100% #OpenSource. What this requires, and what I don't think these researchers realize, is that it would require @Gargron to rewrite #Mastodon in such a way that even the open source software would prevent complete free-for-all use. I would be surprised if @Gargron would be willing do that, instead relying on #FediBlock, but it should be something that should be researched.
I don’t know that a formal charter is required, but I do think that it is important that all instance admins do a couple of things:
Develop and publish a moderation policy in some form
Determine and publish criteria by which they decide when to defederate from another instance
There isn’t one right answer for either of those things, and the point isn’t to ensure everybody passes a purity test. It’s to set expectations for users on the instance, users on other instances who may participate in communities on the instance, and other instance admins.
Well-thought-out policies will be copied and forked by other new instances, and that will create consensus communities of instances that are at least on the same page when it comes to how a site is supposed to work.
It will also be helpful for the community to be able to talk about things like what instances have a lot of bad actors or poor moderation, something similar to #fediblock on Mastodon. The issues that mods face and that individuals targeted for harassment face are often invisible to the average joe user, and can also be invisible to admins if they aren’t actively encountering reports themselves. #fediblock creates a place – sometimes fractious, yes – where folks can ensure that those issues are visible and give admins an opportunity to determine whether or not they need to take action.
As Meta’s new App Threads has now launched, it's important that I definitively state our stance on blocking federation with Meta if they choose to adopt ActivityPub:...
Collecting feedbacks about fediverse experience
I am writing a research paper about #fediverse . I am almost at the deadline and I would greatly appreciate if you could comment down...
mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev (dotart.blog)
mastodon.art has decided to suspend firefish.social from their instance due to issues with its administrator. The administrator of firefish.social was found to be boosting posts from a known harasser on another instance. mastodon.art takes a firm stance against racism and suspending full instances in these situations is part of...
Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem (www.theverge.com)
Mastodon, an alternative social network to Twitter, has a serious problem with child sexual abuse material according to researchers from Stanford University. In just two days, researchers found over 100 instances of known CSAM across over 325,000 posts on Mastodon. The researchers found hundreds of posts containing CSAM related...
Re: Defederation - Does Lemmy need a charter?
***Edit:*Shit, I probably should have made the title plural - “Does Lemmy need charters?”...
Kbin.cafe on Blocking Meta's New Threads App (kbin.cafe)
For those who aren't aware, Kbin Cafe is a Kbin instance I run. Cross-posting our stance on Threads for visibility....
On Blocking Meta's New Threads App
As Meta’s new App Threads has now launched, it's important that I definitively state our stance on blocking federation with Meta if they choose to adopt ActivityPub:...