Fediverse News
38 minutes ago, a transphobic post was sent to @Fediverse News. The offending user has been *blocked* from posting here. Consequently, his posts should no longer be boosted here either.
I regret any distress that post may have caused.
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Chris Trottier
@FinchHaven @fediversenews I do not run venera.social nor do I write the software for Friendica.
FinchHaven
How did that make it through to initial publication in the first place?
There were at least two words that should have hit delimiters right at the moment of posting
Hell, I could probably manage to write a regex to do the heavy lifting
Are you doing any sort of initial filtration at all?
FinchHaven
Seems you've been pushing it pretty hard and heavy
Or am I missing something?
Chris Trottier
@FinchHaven @fediversenews This group is used for Fediverse news, and sometimes I talk about Friendica. It isn't the only software out there that supports groups, but it is the one that I believed had the best moderation options.
Or at least that was true when I created it back in December.
I'm now testing alternatives.
Chris Trottier
@FinchHaven @fediversenews I suspect you are viewing these messages from Mastodon, not Friendica. From Mastodon, the group looks like a boost bot. But from Friendica, it’s pretty darn clear this is a group.
This is why people from Mastodon need to understand that the Fediverse is bigger than Mastodon and much of what they see on Mastodon isn’t necessarily how it actually works.
Here’s what this group actually looks like:
FinchHaven
Two thoughts
1) I might just edit you out of my replies when it's clear the OP isn't really replying you at all, but only to someone way down the resulting thread
2) I'm seeing Fediverse News as a headless reply bot
It doesn't seem to post original content
If all it's doing is endlessly Boosting anything with its handle in it, I'll pass on that
I've already turned on "Hide Boosts from @fediversenews" and things have quieted down quite a bit
Don't need the noise
FinchHaven
One more thought
@fediversenews says it has 210 Followers ATM
I have bookmarks for about 15 [instance_name] /public/local/ servers
Most of those I have some affinity to (with?) and there's some reason for me to sit on their Local feed and read what's going on there
I typically have four open all day long
Fediverse News is like an instance Local feed where I have nothing in common with 90% of what's posted
Granted it's only a test
But some affinity is needed
Chris Trottier
@FinchHaven Follower counts are never entirely accurate. From my server, it says that @fediversenews has 1.5K followers.
Chris Trottier
@FinchHaven This is what you're not seeing.
If you clicked on the originating URL, you would know that.
By the way, you're banned for abusing the group. You wanted to see moderation, you got it.
FinchHaven
This is the tab I've been camping on all morning
What am I not seeing?
Other than I've just refreshed it after about an hour?
And no, I'm not on Friendica in any sort of logged-in sense
And if I'm inferring you to say that the only way I can see this Group "correctly" is to be logged in to some Friendica instance, it only confirms my larger point: this Group is only of a very narrow, specialize interest
At best
FinchHaven
"This is why people from Mastodon need to understand that the Fediverse is bigger than Mastodon and much of what they see on Mastodon isn’t necessarily how it actually works"
Mastodon is not how Mastodon works?
I know Mastodon is not *the* Fediverse
"much of what they see on Mastodon isn’t necessarily how it actually works"
So I have to leave Mastodon to understand how a Friendica group really works?
Hard pass on that
Chris Trottier
@FinchHaven Yes, you have to leave Mastodon to understand how a Friendica group works. In fact, you have to use Friendica.
If you don't want to use Friendica, don't participate in the group.
Not that it matters since I'm not letting you participate anymore.
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