maddox

[email protected]. do not register at you will be miserable. @ or dm me if you want guidance on trying out mastodon (:

[maddox @pastelexuvia]

@TheTyee my heart is full my pals.

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@PatrickBWeiler hiya. any staff in the office this week? trying to follow up with natasha on a petition

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@NjbBari3 is the mic included or does it have to be purchased separately?

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@Melhathnofury yea several. most users prefer tusky for android and toot! or metatext for ios. ppl in the fediverse are often already in tech so theyve been really good about warning others about apps that log/track/do sketchy stuff with your data

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@Melhathnofury so yea. i care about our users a lot and listen to their requests and concerns. i work with some awesome ppl to keep things as safe as possible while allowing users to express themselves (:

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@Melhathnofury yea ofc. the instance i moderate with my team is small and were pretty strict about blocking racist/transphobic/generally fascist users and instances. ive been logging on every day to comb through the garbage and throw it out

what im seeing rn is a lot of new users joining (1/2)

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@Melhathnofury the flagship instance (https://t.co/Ui9w2DaORh) without understanding that its overwhelmed and really poorly moderated. OR they dive in headfirst by making their own instance, without no blocklist of harmful folks, and get traumatized. and then they dont wanna use mastodon (2/2)

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@pati_gallardo yea ofc. fwiw, zero tolerance for racism is a quality my own instance looks for in registrants. so thank you for refusing to stay in a toxic environment, for your own health and principles.

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@pati_gallardo instance, feel free to reach out. the number of users and servers out there with bad intentions is overwhelming – way too much for a brand-new instance to deal with.

appreciate your time. ❤️

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@pati_gallardo racist, transphobic, and ableist instance) are probly more your speed. we tend to shut that shit down pretty quick by coordinating with other moderation teams.

im really sorry that other users were so hostile. if you decide in the future that you want to try a safer (2/3)

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@ShrikeTron @amandalhu OH i just realized that youre on https://t.co/Ui9w2DaORh. that explains a lot. its moderated so poorly that a lot of instances have defederated from it. the admin himself denies that racism exists in the fediverse. now i get why your experience has been so shitty thus far 😞💔

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@ShrikeTron @amandalhu some folks need time to explore the fediverse and find safer instances – a lot of us who are on moderation teams are open to dms from users looking for safer areas. no guarantees but we preemptively block harmful ppl every week and coordinate with other teams.

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@thunderfree31 i am in a long-term relationship with the federated timeline 😂

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@merveille yea thats what the federated timeline is for.

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@thespian2 @tsunamino yea the only echo chamber you can create is the one in your home timeline. to get out of it, you just go to the federated timeline. plenty of fights to pick there 😂

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@bwahacker you get tons of varying perspectives and stories on the federated timeline (: its basically toggling between home and trending on twitter. lots of folks share news stories and interesting articles

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@bwahacker its not an accurate take. the federated timeline shows you pretty much everything that everyone is talking about in real time – what op is describing is the home timeline, which is exclusively posts and shared posts from the users you choose to follow