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

I wish my amazing and loving girlfriend didnt live so far away... I could use her cuddles tonight :(

Just in case anyone is curious it costs me a little over $1,200 a month to run QOTO and all its services.

#QOTO

3am and working on the QWOTO servers backend... jesus christ it never ends

@Pantangelini

I didnt say it was precedence... a supreme court judge cited it as an example of what would not be protected speech. But sinc eit wasnt challenged in court it is not, strictly speaking, precedence... that said, based on what precedence does existt, it is almost certain that it would be deemed non-protected speech should it ever reach court.

@Romaq

I am considering adding the following phrasing to QOTO's ToC.. Before I do I'd like some feedback from the community

> While QOTO aims to provide a community where our users do not fear being punished for their personal opinions, that does not mean we 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 allow questions and conversation regarding these topics in general, doing so in bad faith will result in immediate expulsion.

@trinsec @khird #QOTO

I have just changed the ToC for #QOTO.. We replaced the phrase "free speech" With the more appropriate principle of "Academic Freedom". We also changed some subtle wording to be more explicit.

In practice our rules have not changed in any meaningful way. I may make some more tweaks soon.

@khird @trinsec

The vile and toxic shit I've been dealing with from outtside of QOTO has put my stress levels to a point I've never expiernced before... It is effectively my health both mental and physical. I am having trouble sleeping, and is very quickly moving from anxiety to depression to a point where it is very dangerous for my health..

My blood pressure is so high right now it would be enough to get me admitted to the emergency room alone.

The really messed up part is if all these lies and toxicity wind up killing me these people are so horrible they would probably dance on my grave....

Frankly im not sure where to go from here. But I do want to say thank you foe the overwhelming support from so many of you, it helps.

Itts such a shame QOTO is the only place on the internet I've ever known that has a complete lack of toxicity, where everyone is kind to both eachother, and almost always to others....

Yet here we are, drama from the outside :(

I think I found the only post he could have possibly meant by "harassment". I want to post it here for the record, as this was the last communication we had before his server blocked me.

In short he had boosted an inflammatory (and outright lie) about QOTO. It was about one of our features and it lied about how itt worked in order to frame us as privacy violating, despite the feature respecting post privacy.

Since me and David at this point were on very good terms as far as I knew I was personally hurt by this but responded respectfully. I even made sure to do it in private so he didnt feel attacked. Attached our the interactions from me that he considered "harassment", as you can see I went out of my way to be considerate.

A shame he wouldnt post the evidence itself, probably because he knew if he did it would discredit his accusation... really a shame.

funny how this guy accuses me of harassment and doesnt bother to actually give a screenshot or a post... either way I do feel deeply sadened he feels this way and apologize.

That said I went through my entire search history, literally every interaction I ever had with him. Literally all of it is overwhelming examples of me supporting him and being nice and doing everything I could to be kind and welcoming to him... not one exmaple of nastiness. Here are tthe examples:

https://qoto.org/@freemo/103611927414971482

https://qoto.org/@freemo/103875635455378427

https://qoto.org/@freemo/103540475812695955

https://qoto.org/@freemo/103755299304947793

https://qoto.org/@freemo/103895288785997479

https://qoto.org/@freemo/103687371610964915

I could literally list 100 more positive interactions of me reaching out trying to be nice and supportive and cant find a single one of me "attacking" him.

No reports, no issues of harassment, just me flooding him with niceness and one day I find us blocked.