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

@wild1145 @freemo @SrRochardBunson @BobMastodon @oliphant After seeing a lot of lost followers for our Emacs.ch instance, I came over this post. We've been on this block list for no apparent reason and despite many efforts from multiple of our users to get removed, we never got any serious response from whoever put us there, expect "we don't want white tech-bros".

Too bad that Universeodon did blindly implement it. It is abusive, and I hope you would reconsider.

@louis77

Similar experience.. we basically got "It doesn't matter if the accusations are real, it doesn't matter you have clear proof it was fabricated/a lie. You are on their block list and thats the criteria, take it up with them (mastodon.art et el).

@wild1145 @SrRochardBunson @BobMastodon @oliphant @freemo@qoto.org

@freemo

...not really.
I had an account on there. I asked one question which, I suppose, someone took offense to. Next thing I know, I'm suspended - cant see anyone. I questioned/appealed the decision and never heard back. 30 days later that account is toast and can't even talk to people who'd friended it in the first place.
This was late 2021 early 2022.

Then I made an account on infosec.exchange.. Jerry was very cool. Then I got the idea to spin my own instance up.. and here I am.

No, these bad decisions at universodon have been going on for at least two years.. It's only becoming APPARENT now.

@wild1145

@freemo @wild1145

Universodon making bad decisions with regard to who they block/limit/ban?

SHOCKING.... not.

Just FYI apparently #Universeodon has switched to the incredibly abusive and poorly maintained oliphant block list that is itself dictated, in part, of mastodon.art's abusive block list.

See my response here: https://mastodon.acm.org/@freemo/111908751487276074

As well as the Admin admitting this is the case here: https://mastodon.acm.org/@wild1145@universeodon.com/111889411895912635

very disappointed in their lack of due diligence.

#Mastoadmin #Fediblock @wild1145@universeodon.com @wild1145@mastodonapp.uk

I also just checked and this seems to have monumentally damaged the use count on the server.

I dont know exactly when this was enacted but in recent months the user count for the server plummeted from 80K to 20K and has month by month been continually decreasing since then as people flock away from the server. I suspect the use of this extremely abusive block list, and perhaps similar decisions are a large part of the reason.

@wild1145@universeodon.com @wild1145@mastodonapp.uk

@freemo Yes non-euclidean! It is a red and blue tree inside the poincaré disk model of hyperbolic geometry.

@freemo

Mechanical compasses of that sort are more complicated, at least because you need a vertical reference and a gimbal with 2 degrees of freedom.

Also, that's not very accurate if you don't know your longitude: the isolines of vertical strength are amusingly curvy: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/World_Magnetic_Inclination_2020.pdf

BTW I wonder how many sports trackers use the magnetic field to simplify their motion tracking, and then work very differently sufficiently far north or sufficiently close to the equator. (E.g. for breaststroke in swimming pools oriented east-west in Switzerland keeping a running average of the magnetic field direction at wrist is a more reliable way of counting lengths than what Garmin was doing up until something like 1-2 years ago)