Fedi-Drama - I moved my Mastodon account to Fosstodon
I started to write a whole post explaining my move from Linuxrocks.online Mastodon instance to Fosstodon.org, but honestly it's just not fun, and I don't want to give any more attention to the players or fuel the drama. So I'll just give this brief summary:
An inflammatory blowhard who used to be fun to listen to but is now just being trans-phobic and acting like he's under constant persecution, joined my Mastodon server, linuxrocks.online. I'm not linking to him because I don't want to fuel the nonsense or the egos involved.
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This person is not interesting, it just brought to light the policies of the LinuxRocks instance:
- General lack of code of conduct on the server: linuxrocks.online/about
- General policy of no interference without a poll, from the instance admin: linuxrocks.online/@omnipotens/112871286056348873
- This approach from another server moderator: linuxrocks.online/@yisraeldov/112865583454794746
All that just shows me that LinuxRocks is likely to acquire more bigoted free speech absolutists (who think hateful speech is fine) through the attention this person brings, while the inststance gets blocked from more polite federation. People can do what they like, but I don't want to go along for that ride.
So now my Mastodon account is @cameron@fosstodon.org. Yay! Thanks to Kev Quirk and Mike Stone for running a nice Mastodon instance. And Kev has a good blog too.
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Oak trees in the park