Having instances with open registrations on this network means each person that is actively anti-racist here, or that experiences racism, will randomly have some loser @ ing them with pages of the N word and other unhinged hateful bile out of nowhere. If you've got open registrations on your instance you are literally facilitating that mechanism for harassment. Happens all the time. Can happen at any time, from any instance with open registrations.
tldr: If you are an admin of a fediverse instance, close the registrations on your instance if you don't want to be used as a platform for drive-by hate speech. It might not have happened to you personally yet, but it literally will. Don't be that person.
How on earth have I gone from owning exactly 0 football shirts last year to now having 6? I don't even know how the offside rule works. I can't even name any of their albums
@FlashMobOfOne you are the 100th person to have explained this to somebody here over the years and I will reply how I always have: Having to play cat and mouse with your triggers like this after the damage has already been done over and over and over again for every single word and way of describing or mentioning a thing is both exhausting and creates an unwelcoming hostile environment
People that don't CW their shit have big "The people I want to help in theory? I want to keep at arms length at all times. Followers count goes up for me though so that's good I guess, not ghoulish at all!" energy
Refurbishing all the ancient macs I've somehow acquired over the years that I have no use for, hoping to sell them all on ๐ค Working on a 25 year old Powerbook G3 400 today (Firewire/Pismo edition with the weird transparent keys). Mac OS 9.2.2 going on it instead of X ofc, that makes it extra retro, right?
You think you're not treating your laptop too well? Well I just opened up the laptop bag of a guy that stores loose utility knife blades in with his so at least you're not doing that
peister.org A single user instance rammed full of transphobic nonsense and a chip on their shoulder about "wokies", snitch tagging things to Lunduke like a disgusting puppy with a ball trying to impress him, pally with Spinster. They came into my mentions concern trolling, thanks for revealing yourself to the room ๐ #fediblock
When will mas.to close their open registrations, given they're the go-to instance for throwaway harassment campaigns atm, or will they just keep letting this happen over and over again and eventually suspend them after the damage has already been done? ๐ค https://mas.to/@masturbationaddict69/114439315446111518 #fediblock
If you have a habit of frequently using ablest language or boosting it into my feed all the time, I'm unfollowing you. You don't need to be doing that, I don't need to be reading that.