So many of the absolute worst accounts I suspend should *never* have gotten past signup 😮💨
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So many of the absolute worst accounts I suspend should *never* have gotten past signup
If your username contains a slur, hate-speech, or a well-known troll or dogwhistle reference, then it is a failure of your moderators and administration if that account ever sees the light of day.
If someone walks into your instance doing a Nazi salute and you don't slam the door in their face *hard* then you've let your community down.
I'm looking at you mastodon.social, mas.to, vivaldi.net, ...
@alice I really need to get off this instance. But it seems so prohibitively complicated? *wails in fediverse-illiterate*
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@alice I really need to get off this instance. But it seems so prohibitively complicated? *wails in fediverse-illiterate*
@courtcan first, you'll need to find a better instance (if you're queer, then may I suggest LGBTQIA.space?), then check this link https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#redirect (or migration)
And I bet someone like @FediTips might have some tips for making it painless.
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@courtcan first, you'll need to find a better instance (if you're queer, then may I suggest LGBTQIA.space?), then check this link https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#redirect (or migration)
And I bet someone like @FediTips might have some tips for making it painless.
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@assimilateborg @alice @courtcan @FediTips I spent a few hours over a few weeks trying to figure out how to cleanly migrate to another server. I almost made my own, but I'd probably have too much difficulty with federating. And it looks like my old account would just exist. Idk what would happen with the followers that interact with me. I'd need to ask each one to re-follow I guess.
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So many of the absolute worst accounts I suspend should *never* have gotten past signup
If your username contains a slur, hate-speech, or a well-known troll or dogwhistle reference, then it is a failure of your moderators and administration if that account ever sees the light of day.
If someone walks into your instance doing a Nazi salute and you don't slam the door in their face *hard* then you've let your community down.
I'm looking at you mastodon.social, mas.to, vivaldi.net, ...
@alice I don’t think it’s as easy as you believe. Moderating big servers is difficult.
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@alice I don’t think it’s as easy as you believe. Moderating big servers is difficult.
https://mas.to/@markwyner/115489852379410925That's one of the reasons why you have accounts like @FediTips suggesting that people choose smaller instances where the ratio of moderators to users is far better
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That's one of the reasons why you have accounts like @FediTips suggesting that people choose smaller instances where the ratio of moderators to users is far better
@gbargoud @fabi1cazenave @alice
Yeah, mastodon.social is a terrible option due to its overwhelming size: https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server/
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@assimilateborg @alice @courtcan @FediTips I spent a few hours over a few weeks trying to figure out how to cleanly migrate to another server. I almost made my own, but I'd probably have too much difficulty with federating. And it looks like my old account would just exist. Idk what would happen with the followers that interact with me. I'd need to ask each one to re-follow I guess.
@Stinkie @assimilateborg @alice @courtcan
If you follow the steps in the transfer guide at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server all your followers and follows will automatically move over to your new account.
Your old posts would stay on the old server, they wouldn't disappear, but they would redirect people to your new account. Anyone seeing your old posts would know you had moved and know where to find you.
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@courtcan first, you'll need to find a better instance (if you're queer, then may I suggest LGBTQIA.space?), then check this link https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#redirect (or migration)
And I bet someone like @FediTips might have some tips for making it painless.
I don't think the joinmastodon guide for transfers is clear enough or comprehensive enough, it leaves out some important steps.
I've done my own transfer guide at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server which has a lot of steps, but each step is hopefully easy to do
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I don't think the joinmastodon guide for transfers is clear enough or comprehensive enough, it leaves out some important steps.
I've done my own transfer guide at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server which has a lot of steps, but each step is hopefully easy to do
It also means you can transfer everything possible in one set of steps.@FediTips thanks for all your help btw! you made my fedi onboarding go rather smoothly :3
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@FediTips thanks for all your help btw! you made my fedi onboarding go rather smoothly :3
Woo, brilliant to hear! 🥳 Thanks for that!
