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Are those trolls, who you wanted to please, paying the bills?

I am not here to try to single out poor @stux. As I said, I think they're awesome! I think they deeply care about the Fediverse, and I think they deeply wish to be seen as a positive force within the Fediverse — as much as I try to be, someone who helps fund several Fedi sites.

No, my point is more of a cautionary tale.

In your efforts to please everyone and in your efforts to have a few lulz, you may be alienating the people who currently have the means to support your community.

This goes for all Fedi Admins. You're all so quick to hit that ban button at the smallest hiccup. Many of you do not even read the content on which you judge, and likely do not even read any appeals.

Recently, I was finally vindicated. But better late than never, I suppose.

But during this whole ordeal, I have not broken any rule, promoted zero hate speech, zero homophobia, zero transphobia, zero illegal content, and funded several Fediverse sites while being a moderator and administrator on a few more.

The one shortcoming I see, even among the best of us, is that some of you give in far too easily to please the mob, even when the mob is wrong!

So I ask again: Are those trolls funding your community?

NO, I do not believe funding a community should give you entitlement. All I am saying is that the lulz do not pay bills. And perhaps some of you should not be so quick to hit that ban button.

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For the folks running their own instances - Having set up my own I'm not seeing much Neo Nazi content, do you folks use a shared instance blacklist or simply curb stomp the bigots, racists and anti-semites when they manifest?

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🇬🇧 Wave of fake #AI accounts ⚠️

We are seeing waves of fake account registration attempts, some very convincing and impersonating real accounts (e.g. stealing a public profile and pasting the bio in the curated registration reason).

We are moderating those, please other admins be cautious and make sure to have account verification in place. It is a must, although it is no longer sufficient alone.

I will build a scoring tool to help out our moderators in deciding which candidate accounts are genuine and which are not.

And we will also enforce stricter chasing against ghost accounts.

Take care, the internet is full of bots and they are also invading the Fediverse.

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