@thekitmalone I have noticed that sometimes I can't see the profile page on other instances.
Can you block them? Definitely report if that option is available.
Worth talking to your friendly neighbourhood admin.
Luckily the admin of hoosier social is really cool ... but! This is a real problem that seems like a larger mastodon problem, right? Like I post publicly and I'm cool with that, but it seems Really Weird that a situation is possible where people can interact with my content and I can't block them and move on.
@thekitmalone @hoosiersocial
I have heard that there are nests of low lifes in the fediverse such as Detroit City Riot. They have every dysfunction.
Typically these get de-federated promptly. Presumably then they can't interact, although possibly they can still see your posts that might get to them via an instance that isn't blocking them.
I have never spotted anything like that. I gather from the nature of your work they look for you.
Mosdef - I've had some scary moments in the past.
I've accepted being a local public figure - and enjoy having a platform (because frankly eff them).
I know there's a tradeoff with that and with personal safety and I've taken it.
I just think it's bad that people can interact with me in ways that I can't directly respond to in any way. And I can't imagine I'm the only person to experience this!
@thekitmalone have taken a look on that instance.
They're not all nutjobs, but ranting seems to be the default mode there.
A few decades ago we had a visit from Special Branch on how to check for car bombs and were issued with telescopic mirrors. One or two people had been attracting the attention of some radicalised folk. One had a colleague in Bristol who had a bomb attached to his car.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-university-animal-researcher-who-4239901
I'd already had that training from working at a place targeted by the IRA.
@thekitmalone
They're suspended from my little instance, and I see they're also suspended on hoosier.social, which explains why you can't see their posts or search out their accounts. So they can't do their harrassment and intimidation on your timeline, which is both "working as designed" and cold comfort.
@leighms
You heard right. There are lists of servers that harbor fascists and whatnot, which you can find on hashtag FediBlock. Mostly they're an island defederated from the rest of us.
@thekitmalone
I don't speak for Gargron@mastodon.social but my understanding is that Mastodon is designed to avoid making it easy to create big hateful pile-ons a la Twitter.
They can still do it the hard way, which I imagine is: screenshot your post by hand and paste the screenshot into their Nazi social media, and shout about it to other Nazis. I don't see a technical fix for that, other than hiding our posts from the public, which defeats our mission.
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@BlueDot @thekitmalone @leighms
if you are trying to contain public posts, what you want is a closed forum, not microblogging.
you can't contain things with activity pub. maybe set posts followers only, but even that is trust based.
nobody needs to screenshot things, you can just use relays or the streaming APIs (for clients) to get the posts.
