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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 06:21:36 JST Aral Balkan

   So the rage.love folks seem lovely; asking for me (apparently “a massive tool”) to be fediblocked because I called Twitter/X a Nazi bar.

   Hmm… 🤔

   #fediblock

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 06:29:44 JST Aral Balkan

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     I’m going to go ahead and block rage.love from my instance now and I guess everyone else can make up their own minds about who to block and why.

     #fediblock #rageDotLove

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 06:44:08 JST Aral Balkan

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     • dr2chase

     @dr2chase And the bartender happens to own the bar.

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     dr2chase (dr2chase@ohai.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 06:44:10 JST dr2chase

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     @aral It's got a Nazi bartender, more or less.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 06:45:29 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Sean King

     @seanking Isn’t it just?

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     Sean King (seanking@kazv.moe)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 06:45:30 JST Sean King

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     @aral Well, this is ironic.
     
     Edit: Their "About" page also says "Being a nazi isn't an opinion, it's shitty and aggressively boring - take it somewhere else."
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     Ryan for a permanent ceasefire (ryanrandall@hcommons.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 06:46:49 JST Ryan for a permanent ceasefire

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     @aral "rage.love" is indeed a very odd way to spell "boot.lick"

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 06:49:50 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ryan for a permanent ceasefire

     @ryanrandall Oh it gets worse… the irony: https://kazv.moe/objects/f0fc642d-4944-4415-af05-9ed0b095170d

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 06:51:25 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Sean King

     @seanking 🤷♂️

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     Carrie Shanafelt (carrideen@c18.masto.host)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 07:06:17 JST Carrie Shanafelt

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     @aral
     I am having a really hard time with all the Fediblock posts that amount to "This server allows rhetoric that I personally find slightly exaggerated, so no one on anyone's server should ever have access to anyone on theirs ever again." Block everyone for any reason! Defederate according to your own server's rules, all you want! But demanding a unified defederation by everyone on a hashtag most of us trust to keep pedophiles/genociders/scammers from getting to our people...?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 07:09:55 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Carrie Shanafelt

     @carrideen Yeah, it’s a massive abuse of a system that should be for the serious kind of things you mention, not “I think so-and-so is a ‘massive tool’ and every instance should block them.”

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 07:12:52 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Carrie Shanafelt

     @carrideen Thank you; it means a lot to hear it :)

     💕

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     Carrie Shanafelt (carrideen@c18.masto.host)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 07:12:53 JST Carrie Shanafelt

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     @aral
     All that is to say, I support you. There is nothing wrong with your post. The Fediblock hashtag is becoming unreliable for admins and that is going to be a massive problem for everyone here.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 07:17:40 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Falcon Darkstar

     @falcon 💕

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     Falcon Darkstar (falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 07:17:41 JST Falcon Darkstar

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     @aral I wouldn't take it too personally. My read from their posts and the rage.love site is that this admin is a completely out of control clout chaser.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 07:19:16 JST Aral Balkan

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     • ohiorob

     @ohiorob 💕

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     ohiorob (ohiorob@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 07:19:17 JST ohiorob

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     @aral

     I mean, I’ve never seen you call anyone a Nazi who isn’t actually a fucking Nazi, or a Nazi sympathizer, which makes them a Nazi.

     So yeah, I blocked these assholes. Life is too short to be as unserious as they are about something as deadly as #fascism.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 15:07:40 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Philip John

     @philipjohn 💕

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     Philip John (philipjohn@wptoots.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 15:07:42 JST Philip John

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     @aral Couldn't help myself 😂 https://wptoots.social/@philipjohn/111003479334244766

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 15:14:12 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ryan for a permanent ceasefire

     @ryanrandall It’s not just an ideologically and materially compromised platform, it is one that is run by fascist billionaire who sees all conversations, including DMs, controls an algorithmic timeline and is implementing a governance mechanism where him and other fascists decide whose voices are heard and amplified on the platform. It is the opposite of a safe space, especially for marginalised communities.

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     Joe Quinlan 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 (joequinlan@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 15:16:26 JST Joe Quinlan 🇵🇸 🇮🇪

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     @aral
     Who are these people? Everybody knows Oligarch Musk has turned Twitter into a hate speech playpen for Nazis.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 15:16:26 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Joe Quinlan 🇵🇸 🇮🇪

     @JoeQuinlan I have no idea. But apparently they have strong opinions about me 🤷♂️

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 17:27:13 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jeena

     @jeena I don’t agree that it is: there is a real need for instances to coordinate so they can block servers that host CSAM, Nazis/fascists, etc.

     But having it (ab)used to try to get fediverse-wide blocks of people you seem to hold personal grievances about (likely because they called you out on your shit at some point) needs to be challenged if you don’t want it to turn into a censorship machine for some clique or other.

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     Jeena (jeena@toot.jeena.net)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 17:27:14 JST Jeena

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     @aral the whole idea of #fediblock is totally flawed.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 18:50:13 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Arne Babenhauserheide

     @ArneBab Thanks, Arne 💕

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     Arne Babenhauserheide (arnebab@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 18:50:14 JST Arne Babenhauserheide

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     @aral Being called "a massive tool" is a pretty clear giveaway that the one using that wording is trying to abuse blocking.

     I’m sorry to hear that you have to go through that.

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     Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈 (susan_larson_tn@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 02:55:16 JST Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

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     @aral

     #Twitter (#X) allows open #Racists, #Homophobes, #Transphobes, #Antisemites, #WhiteSuprmacists, and #Nazis to remain on the platform unless their advertisers complain. So the following rule applies.

     [See attached image]

     So if you aren't a #Nazi, you've already left the #toxic #socialmedia #hellsite once Musk took it over and made it a haven for #farright #fascism, #hate, and #bigotry.

     #Fediblock