Toot.Cat News @news@toot.cat
Site news. Toots will be infrequent and only when there's something relevant. Really.
Joined Jan 2018
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qoto.org ("An inclusive free speech instance," transmisia, COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, etc.)
-- Xenon
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poa.st (Non-moderation, fascism, etc.)
-- Xenon
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librenet.co.za (Antivaxx, racism, ableism, etc.)
-- Xenon
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posting.lolicon.rocks (Sexual depictions of children, Nazism, etc.)
-- Xenon
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mstdn.io (Has become a haven for 9chan incels [the moderator appears to be active, but has not taken action], queermisia, misogyny, etc.)
-- Xenon
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jmizzle.com (Transmisia)
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kawen.space (Sealioning transmisia, antisemitic conspiracy meme)
-- Xenon
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instance block: pleroma.gnusocial.club
This twerp @louis made a veiled death-threat towards one of my users.
We don't tolerate that kind of nonsense around here.
This post will stand as a record of the incident, and #TootCat will be blocking louis's instance, gnusocial.club.
cc: @news @dthompson
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Happy 4th Birthday #TootCat! 🎂 🎈
Our first toot was on this day in 2017.
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nobodyhasthe.biz (Nazism, transmisia, joking about sexual assault, etc.)
-- Xenon
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iddqd.social (Racism, antisemitism, transmisia, Nazism, slurs, automated follows, etc.)
-- Xenon
A profile full of fashy content was brought to my attention. We're upgrading this to a suspension.
-- Xenon
We have domain-silenced gitmo.life , in response to user input: https://toot.cat/@news/105776013377341436
My understanding is that this still permits explicit following of discussions there, but prevents their posts from ending up in our public timelines.
-- @woozle
Is there any reason not to instance-block gitmo.life?
If you don't have an opinion, please vote "abstain" just so I can get an idea of how many have seen this notice. Thanks.
-- @woozle
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socnet.supes.com (Non-moderation, fascist content, transmisia, racism, etc.)
-Xenon
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masthead.social (Pro-Trump content, defending fascists, spreading misinformation that the US white supremacist coup attempt was done by antifascists, seemingly inactive staff, etc.)
-Xenon
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I'm considering setting up a Masto instance specifically for political discussion.
It would not, repeat not, be a "free speech" instance. I would still expect users to obey the spirit of the TC CoC -- basically, no harassment or microaggressions -- but it would be ok not to CW political posts, and some language would be acceptable there which might be considered unacceptable here on TootCat!classic.
I'm inclined to also have firmer strictures there against spreading disinformation.
TootCat!classic (i.e. here) would probably silence the instance, just to keep pol stuff out of the fedi timeline.
(n.b. all of this is only necessary because Masto/Glitch somehow still doesn't support discussion groups. 
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I'm interested in hearing thoughts on this, from both TC and non-TC folk.
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liberdon.com (Hosting fascists, COVID denial, spreading the "voter fraud" myth of recent US elections, lack of actual moderation, etc.)
-Xenon
Mew, the TootCat wiki, has been fixed and upgraded.
It must have broken when I distro-upgraded the non-Mastodon server, but I've been so busy fixing all the other problems this caused that I hadn't noticed yet.
Still working on HubCat.
-- @woozle
Site news. Toots will be infrequent and only when there's something relevant. Really.
Joined Jan 2018
