Please remember that Mastodon doesn't have a marketing team or budget. Whatever media coverage Mastodon gets is from inbound interest from journalists. The growth of the platform has been predominantly through word of mouth. If you want the fediverse to grow, tell your friends.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Derick Rethans
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I would love it to grow, and I think the Fediverse is a very important ecosystem.
But to achieve that, Mastodon also needs to grow up with much better user safety tools.
Especially things that some other platforms have, such as controlling who can reply or answer.
I realise that's not necessarily that easy to implement, but I think that without it, a lot of people will no longer find this a safe (and fun) enough place.
Ilija Studen
in reply to Derick Rethans • • •Derick Rethans
in reply to Ilija Studen • • •@ilijastuden Your (any mine) experience isn't everyone else's.
Listening how other people experience things here is mega important if you don't want to push people away.
Example: linuxmom.net/@vkc/113054955899โฆ
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Robyn
in reply to Derick Rethans • • •@ilijastuden
One of the really important parts here is how the only moderation tool that's available to her to stop the harassment is to delete her entire post. Blocking the harassers does not stop them being able to interact with each other on replies on her post. And been unable to limit replies to followers makes alt accounts for harassers even more effective here.
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Artemesia
in reply to Robyn • • •"Only"? What about Block&Report? In my experience moderators have been quite quick and responsive dealing with overt violations of server rules, and ready to defederate from instances that don't enforce those rules. But the mods can't do shit if you don't report.
Robyn
in reply to Artemesia • • •@artemesia
She quite specifically says blocking them does not stop them continuing to interact with each other on the thread. It only stops her seeing it
I understand that even if they can no longer see her posts they are still there, still seeing everyone else's and still visible to others. It's also potentially draining whack-a-mole work.
Reporting assumes that the harassers host admins give a shit. Anecdotally if they don't it can also lead to .targeting
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Artemesia
in reply to Robyn • • •You know that admins on your own instance can block or limit users on other hosts, and defederating from the offending instance will be discussed? Perhaps my experience with mods has been more positive than yours.
Robyn
in reply to Artemesia • • •@artemesia
I have a small and relatively inoffensive account. But I listen to and believe victims of harassment. I think it's interesting that the most pushback I get is when I try to amplify their voices.
The short answer is no, not everyone gets a good response from their own admins, and no "just move then" is not helpful advice.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I have written about this, in German though.
thenewsocial.de/brasilien-alteโฆ
Brasilien: Alternativen suchen, Alternativen finden (wenn sie denn bekannt sind) โ The New Social
www.thenewsocial.deSebastian Lasse
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •The book with a long interview digitalcourage.social/@sl007/1โฆ
The free Talk from Public Spaces
digitalcourage.social/@sl007/1โฆ w @bjoernsta where the NL mastodon team spoke too.
Deeply sorry that journalism has become a cosy copy bubble.
Deerply sorry that our colleagues are that supid ignorant.
Sebastian Lasse (@sl007@digitalcourage.social)
digitalcourage.sociallin11c
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Dr. Mastodonocologist
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Marta
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Nick
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •TomKrajci ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
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@derickr
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@ionizedgirl
Mastodon moderation tools need improvement.
Please listen to disadvantaged groups and individuals who are victims of bullying and harassment.
There are many examples where the Mastodon moderation capabilities are weaponized against disadvantaged people.
Please share widely.
#Harassment #Bullying #Moderation
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I don't have any complaints (I love it here), but I beg you to check out some recent posts by @vkc, as they highlight patterns of abuse that most people aren't aware of -- and because she has done everything reasonable and possible to block the abusers, but still gets targeted.
@ionizedgirl
KellyAnn Romanych (she/her)
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Gavin Anderegg
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I still worry that Mastodon is effectively invisible to website owners because of `noreferrer` on outbound links. I know the community has spoken, but I'm not sure about the trade-off.
anderegg.ca/2024/05/19/whats-uโฆ
Whatโs Up with Mastodon and โRefererโ Headers?
Gavin Andereggkolya
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •(Just kidding, here's my list of demands and grievances that have to be met until midnight or the dog gets it.)
Salvo Miccichรฉ
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Salvo Miccichรฉ
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Peter Butler
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Bonita Mascota
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •padeluun โ
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Digitalcourage e.V. โ Shop & Unterstรผtzungsbedarf โ Fediverse
Digitalcourage e.V. โ Shop & UnterstรผtzungsbedarfMarkus Werle
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •gunstick
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I posted this as reply to all interesting accounts I follow on the old twitter:
Do you also post on mastodon or bluesky?
Especially for the brazilian fans...
Sorry for not making it mastodon only.
Haskell-๐ For Harris ๐
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •William Gunn
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Roundcat
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Lee ๐
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •CaveDave
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Sargon :mastodon:
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •trying this, promoting mastodon on twitter, feel free to likeโฆ mastodon.social/@sargontrek/11โฆ
Sargon :mastodon:
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JimmyChezPants
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I no longer promote Mastodon to anyone. The harassment problem needs to be solved before I would do so, because while I am as replete with white privilege as can be, the vast majority of people I consider friends are highly marginalized in one way or another.
I am here strictly because it has no monetization being attempted, but I am already scanning the horizon for what else is being developed. My guess is it will talk to Mastodon, in a limited way, if things continue as they have.
Evan Prodromou
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Mastodon Migration
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Chiming in here just to say Mastodon is great and thank you.
It must feel oppressive. Everytime you post something, people take the opportunity to catalog their issues and complaints. In large measure it's because people love Mastodon and just want it to get even better, but it must be hard.
Folks, here's a person who's devoted his young life to creating something very special, not to get rich, but to make the world better. So, thank you Eugen, and yes we'll keep spreading the word.
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in reply to Mastodon Migration • • •So glad I left X, I have found a great little community & admin @stux
Thanks to you and all who mastodon!
Dr. Mastodonocologist
in reply to Mastodon Migration • • •I have been spreading the word. And like every good ally, I'm providing the feedback from my efforts.
Tim Chambers
in reply to Mastodon Migration • • •Beeks
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Chupacabra 78704
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •JuLY LION
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Evan Prodromou
Unknown parent • • •@gemlog @cwebber that's a long time for a lot of people to be stuck in siloed social networks.
It's fine if you have other things to do.
โ Justin (StayGrounded.online)
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •A Simple Guide to Mastodon (And the Fediverse)
Justin Hanagan (Stay Grounded)CaliCarol
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •ChrisC101
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •PickABHOO!
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Judah The Mac
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@Bam
I mean with all the antisemitism baked into the fediverse from it's eastern european origins, and not dealt with in any serious way on purpose, with jewish voices overwhelmed, abused, and regularly and systematically silenced in defending ourselves, I really can't suggest Mastodon or any of the other Fediverse social media to anyone. I'm glad it was available when I left Twitter, but I can't recommend it
Budgegeria
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Sascha Foerster :bonndigital:
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Das Fediverse in guter Gesellschaft โ The New Social
www.thenewsocial.dePoliverso - notizie dal fediverso
in reply to Evan Prodromou • •@Evan Prodromou Exactly. This is not about becoming huge with the aim of attracting venture capital (well, maybe for Mastodon it is a bit like that ๐), but it is about giving the opportunity to the greatest number of people to access the free social networks of the free fediverse
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