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Instance admins are often targeted by the instances they block, with the admins of the toxic instances emailing them straw man arguments and sealioning questions meant to have them question their decisions and trick them into thinking they're being unfair.

As I'm often asked for advice with how .art deals with these shitheels, in the next toot I'm going to provide a simple guide that anyone can use the next time the disingenuous admin of Another Toxic Instance emails them.

I've been an admin here since 2017

And I've been banging the "defederate from bad instances" drum the whole damn time

And all you fuckers over at handwringing dot social or pearlclutchers dot online have been telling me that I'm bad for blocking them because I'm being alarmist or a HOA or whatever

Well now there's a whole academic paper about the CSAM (child abuse sexual material) on instances that we already knew were shitty

Anyway, block the bad instances, they're not that hard to spot

While it’s easy to laugh at their incompetence, please don’t forget that fascists have always been incompetent. And yet, as history has shown time and time again, this in no way means they’re not dangerous or that they cannot cause widespread pain and suffering.

#x #ElonMusk #twitter

i continue to be in awe of the red panda's fluffy dorito ears

@mxdragon some self-promo, think we got some nice kits that also offer a very pretty end result tindie.com/stores/tilde/
might be slow to ship with holidays (hacker camps) rn

I would never get Fyre-fested, because I have enough shit with me to last an entire month

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At work, i like to use the 20-20 rule: look at computer for 20 seconds then get bored and spend 20 minutes on my phone

im packing sooo much questionably useful shit for just a weekend festival, and still feel like im forgetting important stuff

like, if there were some kind of industry that was being run by real demons from hell it wouldn't be a sexy night club or a bar or something, it would be a uhaul car rental agency

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it's called reflection because you should look at yourself and ask yourself why it's necessary to code like that

living on the edge having 2 jars of snack on the desk, using one lid to hold screws and eating from the other, almost put back the wrong lid

quite funny how my extended family unknowingly started practicing a bunch of OSINT techniques by posting photos of spots they're visiting and asking the others to find out where they are

Summary of the debacle so far:

- My account seems to have been flagged and shadowbanned, based on the symptoms, but it doesn't actually say this anywhere in the UI

- The reason is unclear; I've received no notification or explanation of any sort from Github, and had to find out through someone at $customer not being able to see my comments

- I sent a support ticket 16 hours ago, and have gotten zero response or acknowledgment so far.

- *All* of my content, except for commits, is hidden without notice; it looks deleted to anyone not logged in as me.

- My repos are gone. Any PRs and comments I've made in other repos over the past decade+ are gone. My Gists are gone.

- This includes at least one Matrix MSC that's entirely gone, and many review comments on other Matrix MSCs and NixOS RFCs. There's just entire chunks of the standards process history missing now.

- Github's account data export only includes my own repositories; all contributions to other projects are missing. Gists are completely missing.

- I can no longer do my job for $customer, that pays my income; because anything I post in their private company repositories(!!) is also invisible - including everything I've worked on over the years, retroactively.

Like, mistakes happen, an account can get flagged for erroneous reasons, fine. But it's slowly dawning on me just how much impact this is having, with seemingly no recourse. And it begs the question of how many other people this has happened to.

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