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mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev (dotart.blog)
submitted 2 years ago by trashhalo@beehaw.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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mastodon.art has decided to suspend firefish.social from their instance due to issues with its administrator. The administrator of firefish.social was found to be boosting posts from a known harasser on another instance. mastodon.art takes a firm stance against racism and suspending full instances in these situations is part of their policy as a safe space. The known harasser has a history of using slurs, harassment, and editing screenshots to spread misinformation. However, the administrator of firefish.social has now forged a screenshot to paint mastodon.art in a negative light.

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[–] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's not beef between two admins. Mastodon.art is strictly a "safes pace", so the admin choses what's safe.

Obviously, an instance admin having no issues with racism is a big fucking red flag about how they mod their instance.

In order to protect their instance and people on it, it's safer to defederate, than count "strikes" and send warnings.