🎓 Dr. Freemo 
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@freemo@social.cleverlibre.org
- UFoI Member
- http://UFoI.org/u/freemo/
- Website
- http://JeffreyFreeman.me
- Gitlab
- https://git.qoto.org/freemo
Admin
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
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I just saw this boosted in my feed from someone else (you didnt tag me correctly)... thank you I appreciate this.
Its actually much more sinister than you might think...
A guy named snow joined out instance quite some time ago. Long story short turned out he was a literal Nazi and got suspended.
He then had a vandetta for at least a year against QOTO. At one point he announced he was going to defame us by create a cohort of alts on LGBTQ servers and start posting lies.. he recruited a handful of other Nazis to do this, again, all in public (see attached).
Anyway, it worked, most of the lies you hear about QOTO are complete fabrications started by snow or one of his alts... now a year later those lies snowball and get exagerated and ... well here we are.
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He basically tried to join a group trying to bring transparency, evidence, and ethics to inter instance moderation to prevent unfounded block list abuse and accusations, its called the UFoI https://UFoI.org
As a result the people who are most guilty of this very abuse added him to a block list even after he left the UFoI... according to him 33 instances blocked him.
The irony is this is the **exact** situation the UFoI is trying to prevent, yet somehow he is mad at QOTO, for this.. go figure.
I do feel bad for him though, its a shame.
He basically tried to join a group trying to bring transparency, evidence, and ethics to inter instance moderation to prevent unfounded block list abuse and accusations, its called the UFoI https://UFoI.org
As a result the people who are most guilty of this very abuse added him to a block list even after he left the UFoI... according to him 33 instances blocked him.
The irony is this is the **exact** situation the UFoI is trying to prevent, yet somehow he is mad at QOTO, for this.. go figure.
I do feel bad for him though, its a shame.
Its rather ironic, I am absolutely polarizing in the fedi. The irony is that in real life almost everyone I've met sees me as a mediator. Two people who are in the heat of an argument I can often get to calm down, talk it out and make up.
The very fact that is polarizing on the fedi speaks volumes I suppose.
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@Pat @freemo @EubieDrew @ufoi Not polarizing? I severely doubt that trying to get people to work together is not polarizing. It brings out the worst in some trolls ^^
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Esactly my thoughts.. my intent was always to have no power and to be judged by the UFoI fairly and to ensure that any acusations against me have their due dilligance... that process can only be trusted and accepted if I have no control over it.
I am happy to continue development and contributing in a non-authoritative way.
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fediblock, fedifence
#fediblock #fedifence
Awoo.fyi is apparently blocked on the fedifence.social block list and I am genuinely upset about this whole process and being slandered with no recourse. According to their rules:
> Who is on the blocklist?
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> Mastodon service providers that knowingly host and deliver content that is categorised as:
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> Racism or advocation of racism
> Sexism or advocation of sexism
> Discrimination against family status, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, native language, age, ability, race and/or ethnicity, caste, national origin, socioeconomic status, religion, geographic location, or any other dimension of diversity
> Xenophobia and/or violent nationalism
> Hateful terms, symbols, imagery, and shorthand
> False or misleading information that may cause or lead to harm
> Malware, DDoS, or exploit code intended to disrupt the network
The problem is that I am not knowingly doing any of this. The server itself is configured aggressively to flag offending materials for review, remove nasties from timeline etc. It even rejects posts that contain offensive racial slurs. I have asked my moderators and they haven’t had any notable content show up either for the last couple of days. The content being filtered and moderated out, which is much of the above is further illegal where the server is hosted.
We have an aggressive Terms of Service that pretty much disallows the content described above at https://awoo.fyi/about/tos
We produce regular transparency reports, which you can view from @Transparency or https://awoo.fyi/@Transparency
We have a public federation restriction list at https://awoo.fyi/federation_restrictions
I went through their process to get delisted, which was to visit their Github link and post an issue. If you check the attached screenshot, we did.
If you visit our issue, it has been removed or hidden with the entire repository at https://github.com/FediFence/fedifence/issues/12
I have included screenshot of the repository commits before I noticed it disappearing, see last screenshot for image.
What should I do?
Awoo.fyi is apparently blocked on the fedifence.social block list and I am genuinely upset about this whole process and being slandered with no recourse. According to their rules:
> Who is on the blocklist?
>
> Mastodon service providers that knowingly host and deliver content that is categorised as:
>
> Racism or advocation of racism
> Sexism or advocation of sexism
> Discrimination against family status, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, native language, age, ability, race and/or ethnicity, caste, national origin, socioeconomic status, religion, geographic location, or any other dimension of diversity
> Xenophobia and/or violent nationalism
> Hateful terms, symbols, imagery, and shorthand
> False or misleading information that may cause or lead to harm
> Malware, DDoS, or exploit code intended to disrupt the network
The problem is that I am not knowingly doing any of this. The server itself is configured aggressively to flag offending materials for review, remove nasties from timeline etc. It even rejects posts that contain offensive racial slurs. I have asked my moderators and they haven’t had any notable content show up either for the last couple of days. The content being filtered and moderated out, which is much of the above is further illegal where the server is hosted.
We have an aggressive Terms of Service that pretty much disallows the content described above at https://awoo.fyi/about/tos
We produce regular transparency reports, which you can view from @Transparency or https://awoo.fyi/@Transparency
We have a public federation restriction list at https://awoo.fyi/federation_restrictions
I went through their process to get delisted, which was to visit their Github link and post an issue. If you check the attached screenshot, we did.
If you visit our issue, it has been removed or hidden with the entire repository at https://github.com/FediFence/fedifence/issues/12
I have included screenshot of the repository commits before I noticed it disappearing, see last screenshot for image.
What should I do?
It is an initiative to try to bring transparency, fairness, and ethics to inter-instance moderation ... check it out here:
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@SamuelBepis @freemo @Darkayne FWIW, I've been on QOTO a month now and haven't seen any race science or bigotry. The few moderation decisions I've seen have been thoughtful and nuanced.
@freemo isn't always the best at clearly communicating his intentions, but from everything I've seen so far, his heart appears to be in the right place.
As a member of the LGBTQ community, I never felt anything less than welcomed on QOTO. And, if I had to describe the tone of my Local feed here, it's mostly STEM-related material, but of the few political-or-politics-adjacent posts I see, the vast majority seem to be left-leaning.
I don't know where this dramatic characterization of QOTO being a hive of right-wing disinfo and bigotry comes from, but it really doesn't seem to have any basis in reality.
Where? Here is a direct quote from our ToS:
> We do not allow people to disseminate ideologies that are abusive or violent towards others. Demonstrating support for or defending ideologies known to be violent or hateful is a bannable offense. This includes, but is not limited to: racial supremacy, anti-LGBTQ or anti-cis-gender/anti-straight, pro-genocide, child abuse or child pornography, etc. **While we recognize questions and conversation regarding these topics are essential for a STEM community, in general, doing so in bad faith will result in immediate expulsion.**
The examples you gave explicitly fall under "asking questions in bad faith".
are you suggesting we should ban people simply for having unpopular opinions?
I am offically stepping down as a Council member from the #UFoI in an attempt to choose a more impartial head until an election can be done. If anyone has issue with QOTO being in the UFoI please report it with any evidence and the new head will remove us from the UFoI, thanks.
https://UFoI
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@favus Im just joking with ya :)
- UFoI Member
- http://UFoI.org/u/freemo/
- Website
- http://JeffreyFreeman.me
- Gitlab
- https://git.qoto.org/freemo
Admin
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
