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

@penny Yes I think thats a good definition. Can you also, therefore, see why your own responses (particularly those earlier in the thread) also would be tone deaf to my own perceptions and the people who feel as I do?

There are a lot of people trying to say what I am saying.. many have no racist tendencies of any kind, and are often being called racist for even daring to include general police brutality in the issue (as it effects all races)..

The problem as I see it, many of the ALM people arent listening the the BLM side of things. Which is why it is important for me to highlight when i talk about this that blacks are absolutely suffering 2x - 3x more.. but at the same time the BLM side arent really listening to the ALM side who are claiming we have all been abused by cops and there is a sense of unity in that because we have a common enemy and that message is important to spread too...

Instead all I see is ALM hating BLM and BLM hating ALM and frankly their both tone deaf to the other and from my perspective at their core (when you remove the bad apples using those terms) they are both positive messages that should be side-by-side against a common problem.

Leonie, who is the admin of a nice instance I appreciate -- https://Koyu.space/about/

...has posted a nice idea this morning, screenshot added here.

That we should have a new hashtag, #InstanceAdminDay :

* to offer thank yous and appreciation for the work, expense and effort they pour in to keep these services running.
* many times covering the costs out of their pockets.
* and mostly not shown the recognition for all of that

I think it's a GREAT idea, and fully support that. I wrote a Long post here yesterday, showing similar appreciation for the unique openness shown by our local Qoto.org admin and founder.

I also posted a nice LP (my usual is Long Form, as you know), just a few minutes ago, showing appreciation for Nolan Lawson's work, as both a fedi admin and author of an outstanding client.

As an active and opinionated #FediReporter who was dismayed by recent events, including the attacks on Leonie's personal reputation by despicable people, I am joining this.

Let's make it happen. Show some love and kudos to your favourite admins and site staff.

Thanks for all your work, Leonie.

Koyu.space is a wonderful instance, I recommend it to any discerning user looking for a nice Glitch-Social instance.

@koyu 's OP is at : https://koyu.space/@koyu/104291205207421914

Waitor: What can I get you?

Me: I will take some chicken periods, well cooked with some bovine lactation, some of it in a cup, fresh, and the rest with a bacterial infestation and old enough to solidify, you can put that on the chicken periods. As a side I'll take the head of a pig boiled with spicies until it produces a slurry, then sliced and fried, thanks.

Waitor: we are out of milk

Me: ok then the fresh squeezed liquid from the reproductive organs of a tree, any one will do.

Waitor: We have orange juice

me: that is fine, thank you.

Waitor: Wonderful, thats one omlet with cheese, a side of scrapple, and a glass of orange juice. Coming right up!

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@chrism

A Sterling endorsement, thank you, Chris.

This place is pretty unique -- I have been in internet communities of different kinds for 30 years now. Fr many years it was Forums, and I was active and became Mod, and sometimes Staff, assistant admin in some of them.

No place in my experience had an upper level Admin class that would take a Mod's suggestions and give it thorough evaluation, then decided by consensus or voted -- with the Mods getting equal voting power.

One person, one vote, this is thanks to our fearless leader's vision, and unique indeed. We disagree sometimes, in fact I do get ticked off and he knows what causes that. But there's mutual respect, and no offense is taken, we are professionals.

Tribute to Jeff's vision and openness. Very, very rare.

I was in different places over time, and of course left; there comes a time when it's the best for all involved, or I wouldn't be here now. Some of the places I worked at are still alive and important in their niches.

I do know I am a sailor, a traveller, and a day will come when I set sail, saddle my bike and take to the road -- just like I love doing in real life.

Until then, it's a pleasure working here; people couldn't pay the cost of the work volunteered by dedicated staff all over the Fediverse. Got to hope the experiment goes well, as the corporate internet is pretty disgusting sometimes.

@freemo

@freemo @design_RG I agree too. I had the pleasure of blocking gab early on in my fediverse experience. I'm quite capable of removing things I don't like. I don't need an admin/moderator to do this as this is censorship.

I'm all for free speech but with that comes a responsibility to behave, be respectful, and treat people how one would want to be treated.

Unfortunately give some people access to the Internet and they think that hrough their anonymity they can be obnoxious. There is always a minority like this. Unfortunately!

So, thank you for treating us like adults, giving us the freedom to choose. This is just one of many reasons I like qoto.org!

@freemo Tend to agree. As a group, cops are thicker than thieves. They're taught that you back your fellow cop, no matter what. If you do otherwise, you'll likely find yourself a victim of your breathern officer's street justice.

Trying to pet fish be like

@design_RG

At the time we had discussed the fact that they could move to other instances, including GAB to do it.

The counterargument of the group was, however, that they did not feel safe on GAB or most instances that federate with GAB. That QOTOs reputation in the fediverse as a safe place for LGBT and others meant that its one of few places they felt they could safely carry out that intention.

I certainly wont throw our LGBT community under a bus simply to save face with people giving us grief that I dont agree with int he first place.

I'd say doing what is right is absolutely worth it, far more than caving to people for the sake of some reputation that wont really have any positive effect anyway (as you have seen they will attack us regardless) and all the while hurting others.

@Sphinx

@design_RG

While we dont block gab if gab "blocked" us through any means directly or indirectly I wont loose any sleep to be honest. I'd be happy about it in some ways as it takes the blame off us anyway.

Before you came we were going to block gab (and others) when we were a new instance but I was convinced to go free speech (not block other instances) by our LGBT community at the time ironically enough.

They wanted a safe space instance where they could see GAb accounts so they could monitor what goes on there and be aware of threats to their community (such as doxxing from milo). It was the point in the debate that ultimately convinced me free speech is an important principle ina social media network and created the policies we have today.

Its also partly what fueled me to add the subscription feature. I figured it would allow those same people to subscribe to GAB accounts without letts the GAB accounts know their being followed. Which would add an additional level of protection and ensure that GAB accounts dont get indirectly promoted by increasing their follower count.

@Sphinx