Last month Gab was hacked. I examined the ~65gb of the hacked data. Here's a broad overview of what I found.
Inside Gab, the Online Safe Space for Far-Right Extremists https://theintercept.com/2021/03/15/gab-hack-donald-trump-parler-extremists/
Anyway if you're wondering what you've been missing on Twitter, today Twitter started instantly autobanning anyone who said the word "Memphis" and did not figure out what had happened and fix it for like six hours
The entire time people were experimentally tweeting "Wait, do you really get banned if you say 'Memphis'?" and getting banned
lyrics
If you down with the rich man, and that can be rich in anything
Don't you take too much
If you laugh at a poor man, and that can be poor in anything
Don't you laugh too much
If you tryin to be rich man, and that can be rich in anything
Don't you take too much
And if you need to be needed, and you're lookin' for purpose
Just remember, don't you need too much
If someone is being hateful or abusive on another instance, forward it. Let that admin nuke their account.
If it's an instance which allows such content then I'll happily defederate it (which essentially cuts them off from interacting with users on dot lol and none of the content from that instance will be viewable here).
There are two sides to moderation on Mastodon.
1. Local moderation. I can yeet people off mastodon.lol at the click of a button. That means their account go bye-bye.
2. Remote moderation. You can report a user on another instance and forward it to the admin. If you don't forward it to the instance admin, I have to deal with it. Which generally means nothing happens because it's out of my jurisdiction. I can suspend them from showing up on the timeline but they face no consequences.
Do people on Mastodon not understand how reporting works?
By far the worst thing about running an instance is dealing with reports which are basically "I don't like what this user said".
Okay? Block them? If they're not breaking any rules I can't do anything about it.
I get an email for every report made and that means I have to go on my laptop just to investigate.
Please, think of the admins.
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