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   FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Aug-2022 00:22:07 JST FediTips has moved!

   You can block nasty people on Mastodon at a personal level, by clicking the "..." below their post or on their profile and selecting "Block". You can also block their entire server by selecting "Block domain".

   However, personal blocks will not stop them from communicating with other people on your server.

   Your server's admin can create server level blocks, which are much more powerful than personal blocks. Server level blocks completely prevent the blocked person communicating with anyone on your server.

   If you see someone being a bully or doing other anti-social and nasty stuff, the best option might be to report them to your server's admin, by clicking "Report..." instead of "Block...". Reports can also be optionally forwarded anonymously to the nasty person's home server, where the admin can delete the nasty account if needed.

   Server-level blocks can be made even more effective if your admin activates "Authorized fetch" (also known as "Secure mode"). Ask them about it.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Aug-2022 00:21:59 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • teledyn ?
     • flexsite

     @teledyn @flexsite

     The nearest equivalent is probably the FediBlock hashtag, people use it to report instances doing bad stuff.

     Be careful though, some of the offenders try to deliberately misuse the tag to "poison the well". It's best to check that the person using the tag is someone you trust.

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     teledyn ? (teledyn@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Aug-2022 00:22:00 JST teledyn ?

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     • flexsite

     @feditips @flexsite

     Can server owners trade lists of known offenders? Like spam-reports or the kill-lists in Usenet days. Especially for the micro-nodes, it could be tedious for a new operator if they all start with a blank slate.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Aug-2022 00:22:01 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • flexsite

     @flexsite

     You can't, but then they would have to start from zero followers if they had a totally new server.

     And as soon as the cat is out of the bag, the blocks would appear even sooner.

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     flexsite@mastodon.technology's status on Monday, 29-Aug-2022 00:22:04 JST flexsite

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     @feditips understood, what I'm trying to understand is per your example, how would you stop that server being recreated with a new name etc and spreading the poison all over again?

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Aug-2022 00:22:05 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • flexsite

     @flexsite

     Each server decides for itself who to block.

     At the extreme end, if a person or server is extremely nasty it may end up blocked by many or most other servers.

     This happened with a neo-nazi server a few years ago, it was so notorious that loads of servers blocked it. So many blocked it that the server eventually left the Fediverse.

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     flexsite@mastodon.technology's status on Monday, 29-Aug-2022 00:22:06 JST flexsite

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     @feditips this sounds good, what happens if the bully is running their own server? Would every fediverse instance have to block them? Genuinely interested as this sounds like a strategy that speaks to the of how the fediverse is constructed.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Sep-2022 19:22:28 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Joshua Crawford

     @jlcrawf

     "why would you care if other people decide to not block them."

     ...because bullies aren't welcome here, or at least not on any server I would join.

     It's everyone's business if someone is doing something nasty or hateful.

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     Joshua Crawford (jlcrawf@social.librem.one)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Sep-2022 19:22:30 JST Joshua Crawford

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     @feditips
     If you block them for yourself, why would you care if other people decide to not block them. To me, personal level blocks are the way to go. If you don't want to see what someone posts, you shouldn't have to, but at the same time, it really shouldn't be any of your business if someone else wants to view said posts.

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     Joshua Crawford (jlcrawf@social.librem.one)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Sep-2022 20:08:42 JST Joshua Crawford

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     @feditips
     It seems to me that the people telling other people who they can and can't listen to are the ones being the bullies.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Sep-2022 20:15:20 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Joshua Crawford

     @jlcrawf

     There are thousands of servers on the Fediverse, if you don't like the rules on one of them join a different server or start your own.

     That's the way the Fedi works, each server decides for itself what is acceptable, and people can move to the server that suits them.

     You're free to do what you want, but so are other people. I only join servers that block bullies, but you don't have to.