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

submitted 11 months ago by trashhalo@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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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[-] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 11 months ago

Defederation is one of the big issues fediverse social media will face, now is getting more population and will be more in the future

[-] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 54 points 11 months ago

It's not an issue, it's an intentional and important feature.

Don't want to be defederated? Don't let chuds and bigots on your instance. It's pretty simple.

[-] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Don’t want to be defederated? Don’t let chuds and bigots on your instance. It’s pretty simple.

While this is the main reason for defederation, I think it's important to recognize that humans are going to human and as of such you're going to have defederation over extremely petty issues. In human history we've literally started wars over petty issues, costing countless lives - defederating is small stakes in comparison.

With that being said I agree with other posters that defederation is a tool. Just like any other tool it will be used in ways not everyone expects. A hammer can be used as a can opener if you really want. Or as art. Or in an elaborate machine. Tools may be designed for a purpose, but humans are creative and you can't enforce that tools are only used in certain ways.

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