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I can't blame certain admins for going from "fun pleroma instance" to "we need to be strict in order to maintain federation" but: consider that forcing your users to be inauthentic for the sake of Mastodon admins who cancel you in bad faith, is not healthy for your space to grow into itself.

You'll be held to higher and higher standards and still end up blackmailed by those you're trying to please, and you'll lose good users.

Disqordia went through this too, I once tried to be the Good Admin™, keeping up a perfect instance block list, pulling users aside to ask them not to do certain things, and it really didn't make Disq any better or prevent anyone from disliking us because they don't actually care that we block who we're "supposed to" or take the actions they want us to.

Dont fall for it. Just be yourself and let your users be themselves. Even when there's issues. Even when there's arguments.
You can disagree with the fediblock protest, but it objectively did work to get the heat off of jorts.horse, who were being targeted for two easily ignorable joke posts on fediblock.

Now the anger is dispersed among all of us who showed solidarity for them and they are less targeted.

You may not understand or agree, but you can't deny the results. If solidarity efforts piss you off, that's a personal problem you should deal with.

"You can't hoard princesses!" the knights shouted.
"I don't," said the dragon. "Tima, for instance, is a farmer."
"That's not what... You keep them looked in!"
"The lock is on the inside."
"What?"
"They're not locked in. You're locked out."
"They can't do that!"
"I see why, now."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

game journalists on twitter from the kotaku sphere acting like they’re above criticism & never done wrong is really crushing me today so i will share this here. it’s all i can do:
nathalielawhead.com/candybox/a
i think i will always be in the shadow of what they did to me and how they controlled the narrative about that. at least i kept proof.

kinda hurts to make a post asking for donations and get literally a single boost from my girlfriend, and not only no donations, but no views at all on my ko-fi page. it's literally more compelling to harass people online than to be disabled

hi support actually struggling queer latinas please

patreon.com/maple_syrup
ko-fi.com/squirrel

i have been unable to get a job since april of last year (if you have an opening for a frankly pretty damn good software engineer with 8+ years professional experience give me a call)

if a dude can make on patreon as much as i did in my previous job as an *embedded C software engineer* just telling people online they're racist, surely i, a trans latina, can do the same, right?

patreon.com/maple_syrup

"what is the secret to happiness?"

"to not argue with fools."

"no, that can't be it"

"yes, you are correct."

i promise i'm cooler than my crotchetyness makes me seem. i'll try to post cooler stuff instead of engaging in discourse next time

another reason the fediblock spam is good praxis: it gives us control of the narrative for once, and puts them on the defensive

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fucking learn a new psychology term

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oh no but yeah they want you to think that anything against them is DARVO

which is in itself very DARVO of them

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they want to keep the hashtag the way that it is now because they get to control it their way better this way.

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i am tired of the bullying that -heads have been doing on the fediverse since 2017 especially because i was a target of such harassment out of a personal spite against me that had nothing to do with the way i ran (no longer run, i've stepped down) my instance making their vitriol target the entire userbase instead of just me

it's dogpiling, more often than not

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like think about it, someone came up with a hashtag, everyone's been complacent about it since 2017, and then someone else came up and said "oh i can make this into an actual tool" and then y'all bullied them and defederated with them for it

who the fuck are the abusers here people

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fediblock meta, snark 

nobody is trying to make the fediblock tag useless but the people who created it instead of an actual tool for blocklisting instances and then demanded compensation for coming up with a hashtag

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