before people criticize me I am not using my main account because I do not feel safe bringing up these issues there, as these people and issues still are not dealt with. I do not want to put myself in danger, I will not be engaging in or attempting to post polls or votes here.
I would like to start by saying that I’ve noticed a lot of bad faith or spammy communities pop-up recently. The user is dramaticcat many of the communities break rules 1 and 2, maybe even rule 3 (an example of one such community is !kiwifarms@sh.itjust.works) as they are purely dedicated to hatred, trolling, and possibly even spam.
Also a small handful of users have also been making threats or calls to violence and while these have been moderated nicely moderators and external instance admins the admins of this instance haven’t done anything about this. This is worrying as admins are supposed to enforce the instance rules and remove disruptive users and communities who are in violation of said rules but the admins of Sh.itjust.works have not been doing that. This is a problem because it means that any malicious actor could join at any time and wreak havok on this instance just like Exploding-heads did on another unmoderated instance known as rammy.site way back when. We obviously know how that went.
It’s important that we discuss this problem now while we might have a chance of contacting the admins rather than later when the damage has been done.
That’s really a good use case for the block feature.
aaand this is how you know that valid concerns are being treated as if they are worthless feelings or opinions, great job guys (I know that there are for real whiny people like this but seriously).
I just spent 20 minutes writing a wall of text about this exact thing, so no I didn’t think I was being dismissive?
Text is sometimes a poor medium…
I’m not saying “shut up and just block them”, I’m saying “sure, let’s talk, but know that you can block them in the meantime”
I’ve blocked dozens of people who weren’t outrageously breaking rules but whom I wanted nothing to do with.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with blocking.
Okay fair enough. Text can be a very poor medium.
Also it’s a bit frustrating because I bring up something that is potentially a serious problem to the health of the instance, because getting defederated or even raided (dramaticcat might not get us raided or widely defederated but our other user who I’ve disclosed to the admins but not publicly for my own safety might). So obviously it’s imperative that I not block either of them on this account.
For the record I do block people on my main account (and did block them there), I block a lot of people and communities (probably will do instances when that’s available), it’s also kind of the point of why I’m doing it here and not on my main (that and I don’t want death threats, DDoS, and Porn sent to me, again dramaticcat isn’t my main concern with that one, the unnamed user is, I decided to bring two issues at once because I figured people would think I was dog-piling to bring them up in separate issues (I’ll make a note not to do it again in the future).