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Somebody reported me to myself, y’all. How’s your day going? :)

Hint: if you don’t like my comparing Israel to Russia, go tell Israel to stop acting like Russia.

(And find out how the fediverse works before you go making an arse of yourself trying to censor me on my own personal instance.)

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in reply to Aral Balkan

(Ironically it’s from “A Mastodon server friendly towards anti-fascists.” I guess I must be the wrong kind of anti-fascist.)

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in reply to Aral Balkan

wait wait, so reports are cross-server? If I report something from another instance, it goes to the admin of the other instance, not of my own?

I guess that makes sense; just hadn't thought of it before!
in reply to Hippo 🦀🦀

Not sure if it goes to the instance the person is on too (I guess they could ask for my instance to be instance blocked on their server or something). Since I don’t moderate anyone (or want to; that’s why I have an instance of one and why I’m working on the small web – I don’t want to be a mini Mark Zuckerberg, no matter how small) I don’t know the specifics, sorry.
in reply to Aral Balkan

no worries, I still know a lot more than I did half an hour ago 😉
in reply to Aral Balkan

Not sure what the current procedure is, but it goes to the reporter's instance, and the the source of the reported content. I know on PeerTube it *used* to be a matter of you could report it to just your instance, or both. I *prefer* to have it go to both, as it allows for better handling of it. For example, if something is promoting the fascist occupation of a national capital, and it gets removed from the source instance... On PeerTube it's *gone*.
in reply to Aral Balkan

Interesting way of putting it.
Are you the only moderator in that instance? in such a case minimum should be to leave the decision to someone else. If you decide for yourself about the moderation of yourself then I believe its pretty much an autocratic situation.
my 2cts
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in reply to natacha

Wanna come moderate my blog too? :)

My instance is my own personal space. “You moderating yourself” is called personhood.

No one is forced to listen to me. If someone doesn’t like what I’m saying they can block my account or the instance.
in reply to Aral Balkan

nI did not know...
Interesting iits a good way not to get challenged.
I would never have though about doing that ....
in reply to natacha

It’s not about not getting challenged. You can get challenged all you like (as anyone you haven’t blocked can reply and challenge you). And, as I said, no one is forced to listen to you either as anyone can block your account or the whole instance.

But what it does is correctly model personhood, which the “servers of many” model doesn’t.

It’s the small tech/web philosophy. Communities are made up of individuals. That’s what we model.

https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

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in reply to Aral Balkan

Personal Instance is indeed a choice, mine is a collective choice, I find it more nurturing as you have to negotiate a way of sharing a space and some common grounds in discourse.
It also alleviates a lot the personality visibility.
I usually only block real problems fascists and such and people attacking, I do not block people because of what they say but because they start being a nuisance, This is a personal choice.
in reply to Aral Balkan

"Somebody reported me to myself..." Excellent 😂 Makes me want to report admins like you.
in reply to Cedric

Only I’m not an admin. It’s an instance of one. The only person I’m administrating is me. (As it should be.)

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in reply to Aral Balkan

wait, I didnt know russia is armed and supported by the west to torment a poor country?
in reply to Aral Balkan

I *do* hope nobody will start a fascist/racist instance 😮
in reply to maru

Oh, they exist. You just block the instance. And folks share block lists. So no biggie. They can talk to themselves all they like.
in reply to Aral Balkan

Ha! I wonder what they thought would happen, or if they just didn’t understand that you actually run your own mastodon server.
in reply to Aral Balkan

hahaha … so glad you can’t be censored man, thanks for being so outspoken! Even when we don’t agree on things I truly appreciate your perspective.
in reply to Mauro Morales

Oh, I can be censored… just not on my own instance :) No one has to listen to me (they don’t have to follow me and they can block me or my instance… the latter two are the same thing, really). The only thing they can’t do is to remove my thoughts from a place that I own and control. Just like you can’t come into my house and take away a lampshade just because you don’t like how it looks :)