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mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev (dotart.blog)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6853479

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 their policy as a safe space. The known harasser has a history of using slurs, harassment, and editing screenshots to spread misinformation. However, the administrator of firefish.social has now forged a screenshot to paint mastodon.art in a negative light.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don’t recognise that expectation. I simply expected to be able to join and interact with friends/online acquaintances without someone else’s decision about something I have no control cutting us off.

As for migration, in most cases you can’t yet migrate your post history and migrating your followers/following list is hit and miss.

These are practical issues that need sorting if the fediverse is to succeed and last. Otherwise people will end up back on managed services like Bsky, threads and Reddit.

Have you seen the jokey post going around. This is what it feels like in the fediverse.

"Hey, can you switch instances? Your admin favorited a joke that I didn't appreciate once. Might need to block you otherwise. Oh, and that crowdfunding platform you use? Back in 2006 they let an organization I don't personally align with use their platform. You should abandon that. Also, -"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The jokey post is true. The difference is whether a user sees this as a bug or a feature. Many of us see it as a feature. If you see it as a bug, maybe Lemmy isn't for you.

I also don't want to see the Fediverse "succeed". Both Reddit and Facebook were great for a while, then they "succeeded" and enshittification began. The Fediverse is fine how it is, it doesn't need to become the most popular thing on the internet in order to keep my interest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Succeed doesn’t mean to become the greatest, it means to establish itself and survive.

In my opinion the feature you talk about will ultimately end up with small groups or single user instances shouting into the void as hardly anyone is federated with anyone else.