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

@ambihelical its an excuse for family to gather and eat.

@niels I have enough money for both. Problem is there already are alternatives, but the "main" one will always be the official one

@jmcrowell Are you a member of the US house?

@Pat

The instigating factor is that someone linked me a website that listed instances that blocked us. I went through tthe list by hand, read about pages, and any instance that posted an email and welcomed others to contact them to discuss administrative concerns I did. I sent an email that amounted to "Hey saw we were blocked, are there any problems I can address"... It turns out without my knowledge the website happened to have its code written by someone from kiwifarms. In his reply he said this was "bad optics". That is the only thing that "changed"

He also citted the fact that we federate with all servers, which as you know is something we do specifically for the protection of the lives of our LGBTQ members as they use it to monitor bad actors for doxxing and disseminate that throughout their communities.

But this second point is nonsense because it has been the case since our founding.

With his permission I'd be happy to send you the actual text of the email but since he is unresponsive to any attempts at having a conversation I cant actually get his permission to do so.

@Gargron

@Paul_Aguayo They never told us, but I know it happened once before. Ithappened in the past because of a bot-control node.. basically a bot opens an account and in ttheir description they post an IP address. That address is used as the control node address for the bots. The content isnt malicious in any real sense, it just means an account was exploited to do nefarious things that dont effect our users.

@agterrane You're welcome

@Pat

I agree, we do need to talk, and I've been trying to. But he has refused and has been dead silent to not just me but the multiple dozens of people who have reached out to him asking him to have a conversation he refuses to have.

You are right it should be fair and transparent.. but nope, just a silent removal.. I even told him if he had any issues I'd be happy to address it. I even went out of my way to update our ToC to be a bit better and help alleviate his concerns...

Sadly he has refused to hold a conversation at all. Since he cares more about "optics" than doing whats right he made it clear a public backlash is the only thing he would listen to.

@Gargron

@LouisIngenthron

All I heard was free money, Im in!!! Besides fuck those L-named haters, what have tthey ever done for me! They only look out for their own interests.

@Pat @Biggles @Adrasteianix

Ahhhh good ol' american thanksgiving, the most hypocritical of holidays.

@radehi Turkey is what we eat on thanksgiving in america.

@agterrane There are differentt ways depending on if you want it in its own column (you add it to the column settings at the top of a column) or in your home timeline (you add itt to hashtag follows in your settings)

@radehi No, why would you think that? Its a joke about the Native American genocide.. humor brings awareness, plus im Native American so I get a pass.

@icedquinn Thats kinda sad...

So what is everyone doing on the day we celebrate murdering a bunch of native americans, and then them being nice to us anyway so they feed us, and then we returned the favor by murdering the rest of them off anyway? Turkey? Turkey seems like an appropriate celebration for that....

#thanksgiving

@nibble4bits No, totally unrelated... They took us off because of the measures we take to prrotect the lives of the people in our LGBTQ community (allowing them to monitor accounts on the fediverse anonymously for doxxing so they can warn their community).

Sadly @Gargron has been unwilling to even have a conversation on the matter however and now it is blowing up in his face.

@Spiggitzfan Its not a caterpillar? :)