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1. moggie (everydaymoggie@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 16:10:29 JST moggie

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   • Marco Rogers

   I could be wrong about this, but I think Mastodon just masks the identity of the individual who made the report in those cases.

   @polotek

   • Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 16:10:41 JST Marco Rogers

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     I'm also still learning how mastodon works for admins. And I feel like I get surprised every time. Like this report doesn't come from a particular user. It's submitted from the instance as a whole? Does that mean it's from a person with admin or moderator privileges on that instance?

     Or maybe it is an individual user. But it just looks this way in my UI because they've chosen to be anonymous? I don't know. It's not clear to me, and I would actually have to do work to find out.

   • Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 16:10:51 JST Marco Rogers

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     I can't imagine what it's like to be an instance administrator who is not prepared to navigate these cultural issues. Especially when you've actually agreed to be responsible for other people's experience on here. That's not a small thing. And a big part of the current discourse is that the mastodon ecosystem hasn't given instance admins and moderators enough tools and support.

   • Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 16:11:07 JST Marco Rogers

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     Somehow, the thing that bothers me the most is how sloppy this is. If a real person had spent 2 seconds looking at who I am, they would see that I'm Black af, and non of that shit is likely to fly here. But they are sending these reports out indiscriminately. They can't even be bothered to be intentional about it. To me, that is the biggest indicator that this is bad faith rather than just them being misguided.

   • Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 16:11:18 JST Marco Rogers

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     The thing to understand is that this is politics. This Black user is not a member of that instance. They could block this user and go mind their business. But that's not what they want to do. This instance instead chooses to follow this person around the distributed fediverse and actively influence other instances against them. That is a choice.

   • Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 16:11:30 JST Marco Rogers

     I wish I could give more people some perspective into how things change on here when you are an instance administrator.

     I just received a report against a user who isn't even a member of my instance. Remember, this is a single user instance. I am the only user.

     This is a person of color who has been vocal in the current drama surrounding anti-Black racism on mastodon. The report comes from a very large and very prominent instance focused on LGBTQ+ communities.