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   Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 07:56:11 JST Miakoda

   That follower struck me as sus. Looked at their profile, no posts, lots of replies. Maybe sus, maybe not. Read replies... Said things like claiming sexual assult victims claims are BS if she can't remember the date...
   No bueno.
   Went to the page of his instance... He is admin, and TOS is blantantly against gay pride, autistic pride, black pride, and others.
   Skimmed pub timeline - ew.
   Yeah, whole fucking instance can go fuck themselves! Bye!

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 07:59:56 JST Miakoda

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     • masukomi

     @masukomi I might do that. The infernet is a very different plance from what it was when I decided not to do that

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     masukomi (masukomi@connectified.com)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 07:59:58 JST masukomi

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     @hellomiakoda

     Eesh. sorry you got that. Glad you caught it before they did something nasty.

     related: I've been pretty happy with my decision to require approval for follows.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 08:02:18 JST Miakoda

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     • masukomi

     @masukomi I should really take a day and spend it checking my followers. There's probably one screenshotting my shit for "lookit this libtard", or insisting I'm trans cause my followers are, or using me to bash autistic people, or some shit.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 08:10:16 JST Miakoda

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     • masukomi

     @masukomi Hopped over to browser and unchecked accept all followers.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 08:29:58 JST Miakoda

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     • Comrade Ferret

     @ferret I'm so exhausted from it all (*gestures to the vague state of our species*) that it just doesn't take much for me to block an instance anymore. I can always unblock it if someone is like "This person is pretty awesome!". I'm just tired of conspiracy theory shit, misogyny, transphobe shit... just shit. I'm exhausted. So I'm picky on who gets my energy.

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     Comrade Ferret (ferret@hub.workersofthe.world)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 08:30:02 JST Comrade Ferret

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     @Miakoda That's wild. I was literally just talking to him. Didn't get the vibe (admittedly we were just talking admin things). Checked his profile, and he seems to be in support of Palestine...but also posts a ton of Fox News stuff unironically, I guess? What a complicated person.
     
     He's the admin of several large instances, too. I know good people who are on them, so I wouldn't instance block, but yeah... I feel weird now.
     
     Edit: lol never mind, he's not that complex, he's just actually genuinely antisemitic. Check out this absolute doozy of a post he boosted. (It's obviously complete and utter bullshit — like, military-grade obviously-made-up idiocy — but I'd like Trotsky a whole lot more if it weren't.)
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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 08:39:38 JST Miakoda

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     • Comrade Ferret

     @ferret Ah, yes, the post where I just stopped looking and hopped over to the instance front page to check the terms of service.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 08:40:58 JST Miakoda

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     • Comrade Ferret

     @ferret Oh shit, I had no idea Minds was still a thing. 🤣

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     Looking for explanations… (susan60@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 10:56:27 JST Looking for explanations…

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     @pathfinder @hellomiakoda

     If there’s no profile, or no posts, I’ll ignore or reject a follow request, let alone if there’s nasty stuff there. Ditto if they’re purely marketing their wares. I don’t mind a plug every now & then, but if the account is purely for commercial purposes, nup.

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     Kevin Davy (pathfinder@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 10:56:28 JST Kevin Davy

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     @hellomiakoda
     A wise choice. I'm always careful about who I let follow me, too. Mostly because I'm aware it will give them access to those I follow and interact with.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 10:56:52 JST Miakoda

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     • Kevin Davy

     @Susan60 @pathfinder Well, since you don't mind... Here's a few plugs.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 12:14:25 JST Miakoda

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     • Kevin Davy

     @Susan60 @pathfinder

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     Looking for explanations… (susan60@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 12:14:26 JST Looking for explanations…

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     • Kevin Davy

     @hellomiakoda @pathfinder

     Just the kind of humorous response I’d expect from an autistic person! 😂😂😂