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   Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 09:46:46 JST Chris Trottier

   Now blocking anyone who spams HOA nonsense in my mentions.

   And if the block is evaded, their server gets defederated.

   I won’t even announce defederation. I’ll just do it.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 09:46:35 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • John Francis

     @johnefrancis @atomicpoet Bold question! It could have meant "Helplessness Over Acronyms", and then you would have been blocked!

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     John Francis (johnefrancis@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 09:46:36 JST John Francis

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     @atomicpoet HOA? Homeowners Association?

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     John Francis (johnefrancis@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 14:47:15 JST John Francis

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @atomicpoet @evan are they from your own HOA? I have not experienced the HOA's stalking the replies.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 14:47:15 JST Chris Trottier

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     • Evan Prodromou
     • John Francis

     @johnefrancis @evan I don’t know how they find me, but usually they come to hijack a popular post to spread HOA nonsense. It usually goes like this:

     • “The Fediverse doesn’t need to grow and should remain small”
     • “TikTokers don’t belong on the Fediverse and aren’t a cultural fit”
     • “This software should be defederated, and everyone who talks about it in a positive manner should be blocked”

     Quite often you get lots of vitriol with people saying, “You don’t care about <insert issue> if you don’t do what I say.”

     I’ve now come to the conclusion that anyone sending HOA messages in a repetitive manner is not seeking dialogue but is simply using my posts to hijack them for their own HOA silliness.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 14:47:16 JST Chris Trottier

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     • Evan Prodromou
     • John Francis

     @evan @johnefrancis Haha. But it is Homeowners Association.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 14:49:58 JST goatsarah

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     @atomicpoet I made a decision to defederate some of the worst HOA clusters a year or so ago and never regretted it.