🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@ner What-a-ya gonna do.

@gooseus I honenstly have no clue where that came from... I know the mods well enough to say none of our mods would dare think or say such a thing... if they did I wouldnt let them be mods.

Hey @khird and @trinsec (our two active mods) any idea where that came from? Im sure its a misrepresentation but I'd be curious where they spun that shit off from.

@NatS Always happy to share inspiring literature :)

@radehi yea

@ner Most of them just lie and make up reasons. A few bad actors spread a few lies about us and they buy it without fact checking in most cases. There really isnt any good reason to block us that I can think of.

@ner A few ways to do it depending on how.. you can go to a user from the instance and click the three dotts next to their name onnt he profile. there you have the opttionn to see their local timelinne.

You can also do it via lists or following/subscribing too.

@radehi I dont mind instances that might suspend us just because they dont like our "style" or anything else that is based on reality... whats so frustrating is the outright lies and misinformation that leads to many people blocking without bothering to fact check.

@lurker Thanks <3

@ner You can, and it is a feature that only QOTO has!

So I reached out to admins of the few instances that block us with a polite email explaining some of the misinformation spread about us in the pastt and describing the situation in some detail in the hopes it will be resolved.

Luckily nearly all the instances are very small and its not a big deal since our federation footprint remains one of the largest int he fediverse, but I felt it was an effort worth making.

Anyway, seems the drama is already begining and even more flat out lies are getting thrown around be a few:

https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/109361052656757061

https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/109361011483467968

Luckily despite a few bad actors most of the people I contacted reached out to me in good faith and several seem to be willing to reverse the ban. Lets hope the people who actually bother to fact-check win out on this one.

@esdin

Before you do I highly encourage you to find a single shred of evidence of the claims against us. Our timeline is public, our rules against hatespeech quite explicit. Please feel free to find a single exception in our timeline.

On the off chance that you do, which I doubt, I assure you if reported any legitimate hatte speech will result in a suspend as it always has.

@welshpixie @aurynn

@aurynn

blatant lie, NEVER has one of our mods said women dont deserve the right to vote.

Only reason we federate with bad actor instances was at the request of our LGBTQ community because of fears to their physical safety if we do, see this post:

https://qoto.org/@freemo/109319817943835261

@arin_basu

@arin_basu

Honestly I dont know where they get this nonsense from... We have explained why we dont defederate, and it is at the request of the LGBTQ community here and for their physical safety, I will not compromise on that. I outline that here:

https://qoto.org/@freemo/109319817943835261

As for being nasty and horrible hate speech side of the fediverse, we have pretty aggressive and explicit anti-hate speech rules here. Its no surprise when people throw around that lie about us when asked to point out a single example of hate speech on our server they are unable to find even a single instance of it.

@aurynn

@lucifargundam

I will handle getting all the emails from the reject list, if you can get all the ones from the other shorter lists and send tthem to me (each on ttheir own line) tthat would help (do it in DM for their privacy)

@trinsec @PawelK

@NexCarter I do apologize if my comments sounded like they were kind, that wasnt my intent. What gave you that impression, perhaps I should reword itt.

@woozle

No our policies never changes, simply put, you misrepresented us.. either as an explicit lie or by accepting someone else lying about us without checking with us, my hope is its the latter.

All of our users are professionals in the STEM industry, we have routinely banned users who provided COVID-19 vaccine misinformation if they were not **verified** to be an expert in STEM, in which case their concerned may have been discussed. I myself specifically work in a field that deals closely with COVID-19 and its vaccines. The worst we have ever done inn this regard as a group is to perhaps voice some concerns over the fast tracking of the vaccine and bypassing of the usual FDA safety procedures to get it out, but thats hardly a conspiracy. Att this point any such concerns are long behind us and proven to be safe so it hasnt been an issue mentioned since. But it was a legitimate concern among the medical community that sparked much debate at the time, and is the only reason I can think of.

we also have always had very explicit and aggressive rules against transmisia and banned if someone should violate that, so this seems quite concerning. If there is such an incident and it was reported it would have been quickly met with a suspend.

I challenge you to link to even one incident backing the above claims.

@cheetah_spottycat @NexCarter

@tripu

Yup its a new feature there and we are working to add it here.

@torgo