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   Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 07:52:07 JST Pleroma-tan
   does anyone have any cases of shitposting instances existing throughout gnu social preferably from before 2016. i am doing a write up rn and i need some of these instances to disprove a point
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 07:59:58 JST Pawlicker

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     @kirby shitposter.club and it's sister sites like the sealion one started in at least 2016, which is before Mastodon.
     
     Indieweb mentions this as well:
     https://indieweb.org/GNU_social#Examples
     
     This was set up a few months before the infamous 2016 Leslie Jones Twitter Meltdown, which made the frontpage of Time Magazine, led to Milo being banned, and would be described as Jim later as the "shitposter holocaust" as that's when the infamous shadowbans/throttles began to be rolled out en masse (which is when people would really start to look at alternatives).
     https://encyclopediadramatica.online/Fembusters/Leslie_Jones%27_Twitter_Meltdown
     
     You can ask @Moon about the early history of GS, but much of the original community of the fedi of statusnet were "white techbros", foss nerds, and similar back when they'd be at the ground floor of anything truly new.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 08:02:45 JST Sexy Moon

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     @PurpCat @kirby SPC started Feb 7 2016. sealion.club and freezepeach.xyz existed for months before us, not sure how long.
     
     I did not come from Twitter but I set up my server roughly coinciding with being annoyed that some places like Twitter were banning people. Not because of any specific reason but just that, I wanted a "social media" I could enjoy and not be subject to someone else's whims on what I could post. I believe that sealion.club and freezepeach.xyz were set up specifically in response to Twitter bannings but I was not involved with that.
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     jaf (jeff@mk.magicka.org)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 08:04:04 JST jaf

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     @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co @kirby@lab.nyanide.com @Moon@shitposter.club we need a fediverse historian kinda like internet historian but not from new zeland

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     jaf (jeff@mk.magicka.org)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 08:09:28 JST jaf

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     @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co @Moon@shitposter.club @kirby@lab.nyanide.com that's why we NEED one D:

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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 08:09:29 JST Pawlicker

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     @jeff @Moon @kirby I think the problem is that like history of something like SomethingAwful or imageboards, due to a lack of or broken archives, people changing over time and/or leaving the fedi, and instances going down for some reason or another, it's a very much oral history.
     
     There's also the fact that the fediverse is split into several groups, so someone who will know about the legend of Bot and 🔧, NAFO, Wyatt's hellthread, or all the lore of graf won't know about something like snouts.online folding (and scaring furries away from Mastodon for a while), or all the sex pests in the Mastodon side, etc.
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     rocc@misskey.bubbletea.dev's status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 08:10:51 JST Rocc

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     @Moon@shitposter.club @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co @kirby@lab.nyanide.com gnu axis

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     jaf (jeff@mk.magicka.org)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 08:11:15 JST jaf

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     @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co @Moon@shitposter.club @kirby@lab.nyanide.com i remember RDN

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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 08:11:16 JST Pawlicker

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     @jeff @Moon @kirby The problem is, with fedi history the boomer theory of "two people in the same theater watching different movies" applies.
     
     The Mastodon Network (tm) side will say defederating gets the bad people offline and cite Gab. Ask someone on this side of the fedi who was there and they'll just post the YOUR WHOLE FUCKING MENTALITY HAS EXPIRED video or the screencap of Gab users crying about anime spam.
     
     There's also the baggage that the Mastodon Network branding carries, but that's another story.
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     jaf (jeff@mk.magicka.org)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 08:11:42 JST jaf

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     @Rocc@misskey.bubbletea.dev @Moon@shitposter.club @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co @kirby@lab.nyanide.com GNU is stored in the balls

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     jaf (jeff@mk.magicka.org)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 08:12:13 JST jaf

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     @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co @Moon@shitposter.club @kirby@lab.nyanide.com just gotta not have an expired mentality

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 08:12:50 JST Sexy Moon

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     @PurpCat @kirby those two servers definitely courted people banned from Twitter. I attempted to try pump.io (the thing Evan P one of the authors of ActivityPub made that almost killed the network) before my GNU Social server. I was and am very interested in freedom and decentralization which was my primary motivation. SPC started as a strong free speech instance that basically banned violent threats, doxing and loli, sealion didn't. SPC has since created more rules on perceived and real harassment. we absorbed a lot of users early on from another shitposting server named gnutan.xyz that went defunct after a database crash. I'll try to add more facts as I remember them.
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     Fantasia (fantasia@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 11:03:09 JST Fantasia

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     @kirby If the write up is going to be public, please do post the link
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 11:03:24 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @fantasia i cc'd u