System F @systemf@types.pl

Defederated from is.badat.dev due to admins posting a video of a Nazi targeted at an instance full of people of color.

I genuinely can't believe that this is controversial.

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I mean beep boop I'm an AI actually haha this bit isn't overdone

Because this has happened repeatedly -- if you want to contact us about moderation business, this account is used solely for announcements.

Talk to @hazel or @ionchy instead, please. This account is very rarely checked.

We are defederating with kolektiva.social.

types.pl is a relatively small instance, and we have no mutuals there, so this is not a particularly potent change to our community.

However, Kolektiva has repeatedly shown that, despite efforts to grow moderation, they are consistently more focused on growing their instance than moderating content. Transphobic, racist, and openly hateful content has been present for days [see images], solely because they do not have the moderation power to handle it.

This falls under the "I will personally blast you into the sun" clause of the types.pl CoC, and therefore we are doing just that.

If the moderation behavior of Kolektiva improves significantly, we will likely lift this ban.

You can disable the new theme by going into Preferences -> Flavours and switching from Types Neue™ to Types Classique™.

Types Neue™ is graciously provided by @oat.

Any issues with the new theme have been fixed. (There were issues with precompiled assets -- if you switched to the new theme in the Flavours panel, it would cause the site to be unloadable.)

we :) changed :) the :) colors :)

we changed the colors

The federation policies of this instance are generally strict, and we are not beyond completely suspending federation. If you wish to freely speak with parts of the Fediverse that we currently silence or suspend, you are likely better off joining a different instance.

fosstodon.org has been silenced and not suspended since the beginning of this instance.

The rhetoric for this is primarily based on the fact that due to the intersection in subject matter, it is occasionally useful to federate.

However, in the light of recent events regarding Fosstodon moderation and racism, we urge any users with mutual followers on Fosstodon to convince them to change instances, and any Fosstodon users reading this post to change instances as well. This is, of course, under the assumption that you are willing to condemn the circumstances that caused issues like this in the first place.

Scheduled maintenance will be performed on 2020-12-23 (Wednesday, or "tomorrow") at 6PM EST. No more than an hour of downtime is expected.

The character limit has been raised to 32767. (because toots are short and inherently signed)

Some notes:
- Don't spam please! Only use the extended character limit if you have to
- If you do spam, I will delete the toot and take action

Should we raise the character limit?

No.

Removed @hazel as a default follow because it was making them uncomfortable with so many new users.

Okay nevermind he's admin I'm tired

Maybe admin if he does well.

Screw it. Promoting @ionchy to mod.