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

submitted 2 years 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] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

There’s really nothing weird, petty or childish. You get a warning (suspension?) if you don’t fix the problem, you get defederated.

the issue here is not that i'm telling them to not do things--i don't care what they do or don't do. what i'm pointing out here is that people probably find this really stupid because it has an identical structure to and is similarly frivolous looking to a 16-year-old making a 10 page callout post against an artist for drawing problematic height gap

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Sure. But, reading the comments under the .art admins posts on .art, .art people don't find it petty, nor stupid. You'd see that they are thankful. And they are the only people who are affected by the defederarion.

I'm sorry to say, but it really does not matter what other people think. It's like me, who has never been at your house, and never planning to be, thinking that your house rules are weird, arbitrary and petty. I'm also weirded out that you didn't let that or this person in your house.

Would you care about my opinion?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I remember artist tumblr in the 00's. Participated, then moved over to twitter in the 10's before I got sick of it. This looks like another continuation of that same community.

They can do what they like, but this reeks of the exact same kind of drama and mobs that, for example, drives fanartists to attempting suicide because they painted a character's skin a shade too light. (Zamii070, if you're curious.)

These sorts of communities form an echo chamber that, frankly, can be absolutely horrible for kids. Yeah, they can do what they want in their house, but I'm staying far the fuck away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I know you didn't mean anything bad by it, but the person you mentioned in that fanartist example doesn't like being associated with that as she doesn't want it to be her legacy.

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