Suggestions for people on Fosstodon considering moving

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• mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The link is long but also very vague. Basically no call outs for a callout post.

  Which fosstodon mod engaged in what racist/anti-lqbt behavior? What did the admins reply with when notified and where?

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  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah. The instant I read “racist, anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ+ views in a position of power” I strongly suspected that this is some bullshit.

    IDK man. I’ve heard bad things about carrotcypher before, I have not looked into them one way or another. It’s sort of dicey both ways: I’m paranoid enough to be wary of a moderator who seems to be abusing their position, and also paranoid enough to be wary of a sudden hue and cry that a particular moderator needs to be removed because they are “problematic” in poorly-specified ways.

    Just taking a cursory look at it: Mike’s defense of carrotcypher seems pretty credible. He looked at all carrotcypher’s past moderation actions and when he did them, and decided that it all looked fine. The criticism seemed a little unhinged. The one link that I saw at a quick glance was a link to a single one-line reddit comment, saying that it called CNN propaganda when it didn’t, and saying he favored deporting Mahmoud Khalil when he didn’t.

    Then there was a bunch of stuff like:

    this is a wildly disgusting person that you welcome into your space. i know that as a trans woman i cannot trust any fosstodon user while knowing what kind of person you happily let on your staff, whether theyre acting on those beliefs or not. it’s not safe for our mostly queer userbase to talk to your fascist-harboring userbase.

    It would have been much easier to just link to some of the messed-up things, instead of asserting them and getting all upset and using the “I’m queer so don’t you DARE argue with me or you will be a ‘problematic’ person too” card.

    IDK, I’m not decided on carrotcypher specifically and he might be a big POS and I just haven’t seen it yet. I just wish there was more light and less heat about why he is a problem.

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think you misrrad my post. Im not defending fosstodon, I was asking for more clarity about the issues.

      Reading up on him in the linked posts, he looks like a big piece of shit that shouldn’t be moderating a large mastodon instance. It’s clear he abuses his power there and on the 50 communities here on lemmy he mods to silence discussion that doesn’t align with his views.

      You opting to “not look into them” is the same stance as the Fosstodon admin, and honestly, not a good choice.

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  • thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thanks! “Feckless” is a good description of the admin response :)

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• Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  All 10 users of mastodon are so upset right now

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