"i've been talking with milan on a backchannel and suggested they suspend so other users don't dogpile"
NO YOU DON'T TALK TO MILAN YOU CUT OFF ALL CONTACT AND YOU DECLARE THAT BEHAVIOUR UNACCEPTABLE IN THE FEDIVERSE AND BLOCK THEIR INSTANCE AND ANY OTHER INSTANCE WHO CROSS YOUR LINES YOU ARE AN -INSTANCE ADMIN WHO WROTE NO HARASSMENT RULES AND SUSPENDED COMMUNITY HIGHLAND ARROW FOR LESS-
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Gargron and Mastodon.social failed us. You didn't have to. Good-bye.
You understand that every minute that abuse isn't dealt with means more abusers who follow them see the posts, and are encouraged to also harass, right?
Has anyone modding this instance ever dealt with online abuse? Do you know how all of this works?
Okay here's a real toot that you can actually boost without people looking at you like you're crazy.
https://medium.com/@alliethehart/gameingers-are-dead-and-so-is-mastodon-705b535ed616
The past few weeks (okay, ever since the schism) I've felt kind of disenchanted by Mastodon and especially its development environment, and I wrote an essay about why that is. It's long, but if you're interested in Mastodon's history or politics you should give it a read.
So, the inability for users to delete their account is actually a pretty big deal.
That needs to get fixed.