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   Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 02:44:10 JST Chris Trottier

   • Fediverse News

   Just a reminder that @fediversenews is not a “headless boost bot”.

   It’s a Fediverse group hosted on a Friendica server, specifically venera.social.

   If you’re unaware of what this group *actually* looks like, please visit this URL:

   https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews

   Please don’t use this as a boosting service for Mastodon or you’ll be banned.

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     Oliphantasmal Force (oliphant@oliphant.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 02:56:02 JST Oliphantasmal Force

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     @atomicpoet I've noticed an uptick in people misusing groups and hashtags in order to increase visibility of their (unrelated) thing.

     I wonder if they realize they are just advertising their need to be banned?

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 02:56:02 JST Chris Trottier

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     • Oliphantasmal Force

     @oliphant Again, this is why I opted to use a group instead of a hashtag.

     As I've learned from Twitter and Instagram, when hashtags gain popularity, they get hijacked -- and there's nothing you can do about it.

     A group at least gives me the option to ban bad actors from attempting that.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 02:56:15 JST Chris Trottier

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     • Rairii

     @Rairii Yeah, that's really bad behaviour on the part of mastodon.social!

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     Rairii (rairii@haqueers.com)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 02:56:16 JST Rairii

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     @atomicpoet nice, your server decided to "helpfully" rewrite that url as a mention?

     here it is again https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews

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     djohngo (djohngo@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 03:14:42 JST djohngo

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     • Fediverse News

     @atomicpoet @fediversenews I guess this is mastodon.social?

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     Ian Robinson (ianrobinson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 03:35:45 JST Ian Robinson

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     @atomicpoet It goes to Venera.social for me. It’s slow right now.