I was supportive of the oliphant block list because I thought it was an honest and sincere effort to protect people from being abused. Now that I've seen the methods by which oliphant determines who to block and how abusive and supportive of abuse the instance actually is, I regret being vocal in my support. Having suffered abuse at the hands of the oliphant mods, I have no doubt there are others who have been unjustly maligned by oliphant and his team.
I believe in defederating from abusive racist bigoted instances, but I no longer trust that oliphant's #blocklist is fair or honest it in who it works to silence.

@wjmaggos The Oliphant Tier 0 #Blocklist still includes Liberdon, so staying away from the Fediverse so they can keep talking about censorship may be a sound strategy. A large subset of Mastodon hates free speech.

Blocking oliphant.social server, because I can.

So trashy to invite this intellectual powerhouse onto their server, claiming they would "protect" her, only to force her off over some made-up bullshit.

#BlockList
#Oliphant

@SallyStrange @frozencat@mastodon.social @bodhipaksa

I read his posts.Definitely on my #BlockList.

@mdiluz

Q: Would a #DNS-#Blocklist for sites that use "#AI" to "write articles" be an option?

Because I think using fake "AI" to vomit pointless #SEO garbage into tue web disqualifies any media of any credibility.

Und dann kam die erste Blockempfehlung hier vorbei…
Wird wohl nicht bei einem bleiben.
#X #Blocklist

@Commander_KEEN @verbraucherzentrale Und dabei hab' ich schon die #Spamhaus-#Blocklist|en drin!
https://github.com/greyhat-academy/lists.d/blob/main/blocklists.list.tsv

Ich selbst bin ja am "bespammten Ende"...

@fuchsiii @absurdlyinsane @Melodychu143

I've yet to see evidence that mstdn.jp knowingly and willingly hosts #CSAM - there are instances that do however [and refuse to takedown anything] and I do maintain a #blocklist for instances.

https://github.com/greyhat-academy/lists.d/blob/main/activitypub.domains.block.list.tsv

Just to clarify: I'm neither an admin nor mod of mstdn.social or masto.ai and my only affiliation with @stux is that I use his instance and that I tried out @Stuxhost in the past.

#fedupwithcolonialism

Admittedly, despite all justified #euphoria, the #fediversecommunity has caused me a series of tremendous #disappointments in the past months.

Where #freedom of speech and convictions should have had a place, a #mob of #opinion snoops with #blocklist recommendations has spread and purged public #discourse of relevant contentious issues.

As a result, #NATO can still succeed as a #peace power today.

@oblomov *gets excited* this is also where to start building the #moderation tools, #blocklist management support, #CSAM reporting, etc

A #blocklist put #Liberdon on recommended "suspended" status without so much as an accusation. I've moved @filknews off Indieweb, which uses that blocklist. Here's the story: https://garymcgath.com/wp/kafkas-mastodon/

#Indieweb "silenced" #Liberdon not just without due process but without an accusation. Liberdon was put on a #blocklist with no reason given, and the Indieweb admin actually asked me to provide some accusations! He says he's still "investigating" the non-charges, but we're presumed guilty until he can think of something we're guilty of.

Mastodon is getting fragmented. I just noticed a friend's account which shows no posts since early June, though viewing it from another account I control shows posts as recent as an hour ago.

I'm pretty sure it's because Mastodon factions are engaged in #blocklist wars against each other. It's similar to international trade wars, though much less damaging.

A while back I thought an #EFF post had been affected by a #blocklist. I was mistaken. It was my own filter, which I had named "Blocklist" and then forgotten about, that put a warning on the message because it had a term that I filter on.

I was alarmed because I'm dealing with an ongoing real blocklist issue, but this one was strictly user error.

And here's my blog post going into more detail on the opaque "Tier 0 #blocklist ." https://garymcgath.com/wp/petty-tyrants-mastodon/

@tantramar well, I was TRYING to be civilized. 🙄what the fuck is wrong with you people today. #blocklist adding up fast af.

The personal #blocklist grows...🤷🏻‍♂️why people argue in bad faith, I'll never understand.

Congratulations, you defeated your own argument. Have a good day.

@freakazoid thx.

I've put that in my issue tracker [ https://github.com/greyhat-academy/lists.d/issues/38 ] and will update the #blocklist now...
https://github.com/greyhat-academy/lists.d/blob/main/activitypub.domains.block.list.tsv

Like I'm shure once big names got their #Minecraft #Streams repeatedly sniped by #Griefers, people like #Jeb did not only get a #BlankCheque to stop them but basically got ordered to do so NOW!

They can be fecking glad they only got #DenyList|ed by Minecraft Servers that use #Mojang's #BlockList and not have their entire #Microsoft Account locked down.

Tho that's consistent with #XboxLive handling #Bans: People can still play #offline but not sign in on the banned 360.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnDk8BcqoR0

@davidgerard

The non-Moderation - Issues [ https://github.com/greyhat-academy/lists.d/issues/35 ] are why #BlueSky is on my #blocklist for ages:
https://github.com/greyhat-academy/lists.d/blob/main/activitypub.domains.block.list.tsv