@pinkprius Of course, this is just the direct evidence of what folks have been warning about already.

Maybe it'll help in dealing with the usual "oblivious centrists" who see something that sounds official and legalistic and immediately skip any critical inspection and consider it trustworthy. Probably not.

@joepie91 https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/ the post about UFoI is the highest voted ever on the mastodon subreddit 🤦

@pinkprius Undoubtedly helped by the pretty clear vote manipulation on QOTO's side, there were some *extremely* suspicious voting patterns in there, like getting 19 downvotes within 11 minutes of posting a critical reply, while zero people actually replied to it

@goat And this instance was added to the approved member list some time in the past 8 hours, so there's no excuses to be spun about "well it looked different at that time" either

@sanctionedanya I mean, I doubt they even really looked at instance contents either, eg. this is a post on a member instance: https://m.azisserver.me/@Azis/109470567053446183

@joepie91 again makes sense considering it's The Qoto Guy

@joepie91 on the face of it UFoI is just an effort to put a respectable veneer on the qoto admin's crying about defederation

@sanctionedanya Oh, it 100% is that. Unfortunately the QOTO guy is very good at spinning official-sounding rhetoric that effectively catches the more, shall we say, politically oblivious