Iron Ree
African Astronaut
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You left all your bank info in frame of one of your YouTube videos (unlisted) I won't say which video but all your accounts and numbers can be seen clearly
I won't say who but there are users here in the Chicago area like well-hung and candyrein and let's just say this is the "find out" part of fucking around
Dh gang on top, randyrein 😂
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Iron Ree
African Astronaut
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I hope nazis stick you in an oven and lock the door, I would cheer them on all call them heroes as Putin's troops rolled in to take back their rightful homeland
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Iron Ree
African Astronaut
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Get your eclipse butt plugs ready remember don't wink your asshole directly at the Sun OH GOD THE MOON IS CROSSING OVER THE CORONA OF THE SUN PULL IT OUT IT HURTS NO THE COSMIC RAYS FEEL GOOD AGAINST MY PROSTATE PUT IT BACK 🔙
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Iron Ree
African Astronaut
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Originally posted by WellHung
Sorry u won't get the chance to use ur recently purchased, limited edition, one of a kind, special solar eclipse glasses. Better luck in 2043, my friend.
Those are soy glasses. I don't need fucking soy glasses to look at the Sun. That's cuck shit OH NO ARE MY SOY GLASSES REAL OR NOT BETTER BE SAFE THROW THEM OUT AND BUY A NEW PAIR like yeah okay 🆗 I'll just look at the Sun ☀️🌞 like my ancestors did for thousands of years
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Iron Ree
African Astronaut
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I still don't believe this famous black activist that was on Dr.Phil and has over 20k follows on twitter and is one of the most prominent online american communists ever posted on zoklet or totse.
I think you are all just gang stalking weirdos
Originally posted by Ghast
'Tachosomoza: A 40 year old paraplegic with one eye who works as a high school janitor. Mods Bad Ideas.'
I have no idea who this black red guard guy is, or the dude on dr phil, but this guy did not post on your weird forum. Why are you people cyberstalking some random black guy that WAS on dr. phil and may or may not be a communist, I can't even tell if that's the same dude, and the ages and accounts make no sense.
how come I've never seen a single post or quote from this dude ever but he has 100k followers on twitter, nah something is fucky. Is 'tacho' like an inside joke like you were stalking someone kinda like wariat or kafkunty or myself or Bill Krozby OH MY GOD
TRIANGLISM ISNT THE CULT
Y.Y…YOU PEOPLE ARE!!!
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Iron Ree
African Astronaut
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"冰淇淋 = ice cream.
Pinyin: Bing1 Qi2 Lin2
If you can’t “read” it, it’s essentially Bing (flat tone) Chee (rising tone) Leen (rising tone).
John Cena’s pronunciation is way off as is typical and nearly unintelligible but he gets a pass because he’s a celebrity and he’s white. Referencing Mark Zuckerberg’s awful speech about a decade ago. So cringey."
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Iron Ree
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Mastodon had some good ideas but it was quickly ruined by power tripping instance owners and the prevalence of universal block lists which will block entire instances and everyone part of them if they are associated with hot button topics, i.e censorship self imposed by communities upon themselves
it's pretty disgusting
PLEASE READ BEFORE JOINING:
mastodon.art is a safe space instance. We have strict federation policies that protect our most vulnerable members first and foremost, which means we block any instances that host or platform hate (racism, transphobia, etc.).
Blocked instances?
I waited for a while to join Mastodon, but the twitter got way too toxic. I finally joined an instance that seemed nice (mastodon.art) and went through the multi-hour process of trying to find the folks I was following on Tw. It had to be done manually now that Tw blocks APIs.
Well, I realized that many of the people I follow are on the kolektiva.social/ and journa.host instanced, but I am blocked from being able to follow them. I'm not sure whether they've blocked my instance or vice versa. Can anyone advise the best way to follow these folks? Do I need to make yet another account?
Looking at mastodon.art, the admins seem to have blocked/muted hundreds of instances, including mastodon.social, mastodon.online, qoto.org, all of which are moderate instances with a clear policy against racism, harassment, etc., I don't see how this is good for artists, who probably need engagement. I think mastodon.art admins are trying to push their agenda by pressuring other instances to adopt stricter restrictions and limit users' freedom, instead of simply protecting their users (which is not achieved by restricting users from interacting with moderated instances).
Since my post yesterday, loads of you have chimed in with your opinions on what should happen between .art and .social/.online (just to clarify - they are sister-instances that both come under the 'joinmastodon' banner and are owned / managed by Gargron). The responses were almost unanimously in favour of 'silencing'.
One of the concerns I mentioned in my post yesterday was that .social federates with instances that in turn federate with fascist instances.
Today, I was looking at .social's 'about' page (for impressum reasons) and thought, 'Hey, while I'm here, let's look at their block list'. I was looking for one specific instance - mstdn.io - and that instance is NOT on their block list.
We've had mstdn.io blocked for around a year or more, along with our instance 'friends' who share our block values, because they host fascist content. One of their users in particular is a member of Italian neo-fascist group Casa Pound. I know that that user has been reported several times from .art and *must* have been reported from other instances too. That user is still active on mstdn.io as of this week.
And .social/.online federate with that instance.
In light of that, and given the feedback I've received that you would all be happy to have a 'silence' put in place for .social / .online , I'm going to enable that silence.
What does this mean for your interactions with .social/.online?
Anyone you already follow there, you will still follow.
Anyone who follows you, will still follow you.
You will be able to see the public posts of anyone you follow appear in the 'federated' timeline.
You will be able to see *all* posts of someone you follow in your home timeline.
If someone you follow boosts a post from those instances, you will see it in your home timeline, whether you follow them or not.
You will be able to use the 'search' feature to find profiles on .social/.online. The profile contents will be hidden and you can click 'Show profile anyway' to interact with and follow that person.
The above also works in reverse; people on .social and .online can still search for your profiles and follow you.
Hashtag searches will only include results from people you follow on .social/.online (and vice versa).
In order to assuage your fears over reach and discoverability, I want to share insight of my experience of having been on Mastodon since 2016, and having been through several big user influxes over the years.
Most people who start on .social/.online, who align with the kind of values we promote at .art and who are the kind of people who are more likely (generally, not absolutely) to see the value of supporting artists, don't stay on those instances. They move to smaller ones that better fit their interests and moderation values. Silencing these instances from .art might encourage this to happen sooner. Those two instances have always served as a springboard to other instances rather than permanent homes.
A lot of smaller instances already have .social/.online blocked and have had them blocked for a long while.
The fediverse is huge. It is far, far more than just .social and .online. We already have instances blocked that have 200k+ users because they host lolicon/pedophilia, and they're just a drop in the ocean of the total number of users spread across the fediverse.
I am, of course, hoping that maybe by us silencing them, we can initiate some kind of change in the moderation there. What I shared in yesterday's post was just the tip of the iceberg; there is a five year history of .social/.online not listening to its mods and devs and acting in the best interests of the community. Gargron fired his mods in back in *July*. This is a pattern of behaviour that those of us have been here since 2016-2017 are familiar enough with to know that it probably won't change.
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Iron Ree
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It's official folks I just saw it on twitter. Lanny and fralala are unplugging the servers this month and we are to archive our own posts and find new homes. Let's all swap contact info here before the #THE BIG PLUG
it's been a good ride folx see you on newtotse
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