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

@freemo @LouisIngenthron @derickflorian @toxomat @ceoln @PaulaToThePeople @SecondJon @shelenn To hammer this down further:
I come from not twitter, but another platform where insults are forbidden, but being mean is not something that moderators would react to.
Accordingly, i built some neural pathways to accomodate. My mode of operation was "i can troll the trolls". Whoever is nice, nice. Whoever not, let's see who wins.
So i was looking around here and thought "i hear negative things, i should troll the trolls". I have hence understood that this does not make sense in this environment. Even just being mean is so extraordinary that i do not need to. And that includes the users from other instances i have encountered.

I even was sure someone was arguing in bad faith one time, but after i said i wanted to disengage that was honoured.

This is a place that has no physical location, but a great appeal.

@LouisIngenthron @derickflorian @freemo @toxomat @ceoln @PaulaToThePeople @SecondJon @shelenn
I would worry about their unknowing users strung along.

1. Make an instance that promotes positive values
2. Acquire many users in line with those values
3. Act against those values
4. Oops. All blocked.

I think a lot of people that would be welcome here would be blocked. That is why we should absolutely go forth with freemos initiative. Not to protect qoto, but to promote human communication.

It was always a thing, people breaking down communications to advance nefarious goals. I think we could even make a better world, if we could protect good faith communication from trolls.

@derickflorian @freemo @toxomat @ceoln @PaulaToThePeople @SecondJon @shelenn Eh, I'm of the mind that there's no reason to get upset about it. QOTO doesn't block servers, so the servers decided to block themselves. It's self-selected curation. Anyone who wants their eyes shielded by another for arbitrary reasons is probably not the kind of curious, inquisitive person that I prefer interacting with on social media anyway.
All one can do is try to publicize the fiasco so that those who are curious can leave the draconian servers and come to the light of reason and open discussion.

@toxomat @shelenn @ceoln

The issue with the list is that it clearly suppresses evidence that is not in line with the operators opinions, effectively lying by ommitting relevant context to distort the truth.

See my list on the talk page.. Despitte being respectful and showing a mountain of evidence to disprove the evidence claimed for QOTO on the block list none of this evidence was actually added (in fact in response they added another entry claiming I harassed her). Instead despite the polite mention I was blocked.

https://joinfediverse.wiki/Talk:FediBlock

This isnt a case of "admins make up your own mind".. this is a case of explicitly lieing, presenting on the cherry picked out of context evidence to support your agenda and suppressing all evidence that disproves the claim int he block.

Is that really a block list you want to support? I mean come on the majority of instances on the list dont even bother providing evidence.

Yeah, sure, @freemo messes up sometimes. Because he actually DOES THINGS.

He also seeks constructive criticism and corrects course. More than once a day in public.

You can be comfortable, or you can be a change agent.

@freemo @toxomat @shelenn @ceoln the latest comment reads to me as.... Despite proof Yay all stated concerns are resolved, there's still problems and if you don't know, I'm not going to tell you.

Hardly treating others well with that kind of attitude. Feels less like a vetted list and more like.. the Paula Don't Like You list. 🤣

Treating others well is one thing I think #qoto is known for. Sad that the idea isn't shared more widely.

@freemo my instance mastodon.se was also put on that list for a complete misunderstanding. These so called anarchists are only creating segregation among their own people.