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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2026 22:28:12 JST Aral Balkan

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@Pandora/116413865992604296
Is it just me or does this just make you want to add the #DoctorWho hashtag to every post you make?
What do you say? Shall we play?
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  Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)
  
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  Attached: 1 image @AngelaScholder@mastodon.energy So, Karen, just so you understand the consequences of your actions: Because you reported this post (https://mastodon.energy/@AngelaScholder/116397038832441549) by @joynewacc@mastodon.social for an erroneously autocompleted hashtag (#doctor -> #doctorWho), a mastodon.social moderator *deleted her post*. Yes, read that again: the post of a Palestinian, suffering through genocide in Gaza and trying to share her experience – someone who is, moreover, a founding team member of Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/team/) – was *deleted* for a stupid hashtag that some white Karen in the West got distressed about. This is so fucking wrong in so many ways that I don’t know where to begin. I want to know: 1. Is it mastodon.social policy to just go ahead and delete the posts of its members or was this a moderator acting out of spite against a Palestinian? (Or is everyone on mastodon.social at risk of having their posts deleted if moderators don’t agree with the hashtags they use?) 2. If this is not mastodon.social policy, I’d like to know what action will be taken regarding this moderation action and the moderator responsible and what will change internally to ensure that something like this doesn’t happen again. Israel is already doing their best to erase Palestinians. The least we can do is to not help them by literally deleting the posts of Palestinians on the fediverse. Thank goodness hashtags weren’t a thing in the days of Anne Frank because clearly some of you would have burned her diary had she used the wrong one by mistake. 3. Can we all, please, have some fucking basic decency and maintain perspective when dealing with people suffering through genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid? It’s a pretty low bar for humanity. And, whatever you do, do not be this Karen. Check your bloody privilege. And fuck your hashtag. We’re talking about human lives here. CC @staff@mastodon.social #Gaza #Palestine #mastodon #fediverse #moderation #mastodonSocial #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism
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  Minnà Pandora (@Pandora@eldritch.cafe)
  
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  @aral@mastodon.ar.al Please don't spam hashtags, that's not what they are for. Just share your crowdfunding boosts with appropriate hashtags, thanks.
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  Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2026 22:28:01 JST Aral Balkan
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  I was walking down the street the other day and I met a man looking rather distraught. I asked them “are you lost?”
  “No,” they replied, “I’m looking for the doctor.”
  “The doctor?”, I asked, “doctor who?”
  #doctorWho
  
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  Dan Hatton (only_ohm@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2026 23:01:57 JST Dan Hatton
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  Puts me in mind of Dot and Bubble, in which the Doctor refused to let himself be excluded from a conversation by the rules and norms of a social media ecosystem, and used the sonic screwdriver to override a series of mutes and blocks. #DoctorWho
  (Aral, is this sort of thing helpful? If not I can stop it.)
  
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  Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 17-Apr-2026 18:44:47 JST Aral Balkan
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  @Pandora How about I don’t? How about you get some perspective instead?
  
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  Minnà Pandora (pandora@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 17-Apr-2026 18:44:49 JST Minnà Pandora
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  @aral@mastodon.ar.al Is it just me or are you just being an asshole here?
  I didn't report you for spamming, I just told you that it was not okay to use unrelated hashtags without any context given.
  If you want to play the asshole, you may as well give something to my ko-fi too, I use to fund some people too when my finances are OK (they aren't right now) and the latest thing I want to get when coming on the Fediverse is someone bullying me for telling them that something is not okay, no more no less.
  EDIT 2 : So no, it seems that you didn't delete, you blocked me instead. Very responsible, asshole. Now sod off.
  
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