ERROR 301 (@realcaseyrollins@pleasehug.me) @realcaseyrollins@gameliberty.club

No, I'm not dead, unfortunately.

one more Mastodon instance in the fediverse! welcome, eclesia.space! - https://fediverse.network/eclesia.space

@Coomer @realcaseyrollins Spam? From our instance?

@realcaseyrollins If they ever modify their rules to make bots post unlisted I'll unsilence them for sure. @mewmew

@Coomer @realcaseyrollins I'm going to add federated timeline removal (without full silencing) to my fork in the future, if you're interested

@realcaseyrollins Fortunately, instances like mstdn.social, that allow bots to post publicly rather than unlisted are pretty rare, and even the ones that do tend to be small enough I can manage. I won't be muting Smug for example

@realcaseyrollins I need to write it up somewhere when I have some time to sit down.

The core idea of this instance is going to be interactivity with people, and moderation focus is keeping bots and spam out of public timelines.

Unfortunately, it's unrealistic for me to go account by account, the quantity is just too high, so instances that house high volume spam are also being muted (but not defederated)

@realcaseyrollins Here's the current list of muted instances for high quantity bots or spam.

Keep in mind, you can still follow any account from these you want from here, and if the admins care enough to reach out to me, I'm willing to talk about it. I won't be defederating from anyone unless they violate US Law, it's more akin to a quarantine.

@DissidentKitty

Can you show us even a single racist post from a user who wasnt banned from our server? Even one? I'll wait...

@pizza

@pizza fwiw misskey also has this feature by default, so what, are you gonna cancel all misskey instances as well
blame the protocol, not the protocol users

those people who suggest block instance increase the divide of people.
I think the key to social media is about listening not speaking

Nice to see all the chatter around #QOTO on #Fediblock gave us a nice surge of new users.

These people really need to realize they are doing us a favor. The ones who start trouble do us the courtesy of isolating themselves from the network by blocking well-behaving instances AND actually advertise our instance all in the same breath.

On top of that our insularity and number of servers we federate still remains among the highest in the fediverse too!

We as a server try to do what is **right** and don't cave to peer pressure. It sometimes gets us into some trouble, there are some people who take it very personally when they realize they don't have power over another. But in the end most people see past it. While I am dismayed at the way a small minority acted yesterday I am refreshed by the results.

As far as I can tell far more people joined our server than the number of people who even engaged in the thread in the first place. Thats a win as far as I'm concerned.

I've updated my Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to include a relatively little-known Mastodon feature that nonetheless is causing some big anxiety this week.

"So if I lock my account, only approved people can see my posts?", wherein I explain locked accounts and - here's the anxiety-inducing part - the RSS feed that *every* Mastodon account creates.

https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/#so-if-i-lock-my-account-only-approved-people-can-see-my-posts

jesus christ dissidentkitty is trying to dox matrix now
these people are actually dangerous

Has anybody offered thoughts and prayers to control Coronavirus?