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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
YKantRachelRead@treehouse.systems ("Rach(el) Against The Machine") wrote:
it probably slipped past most people over the weekend - but if anyone remembers the anonymous mastodon.social account that started accusing me of "harassing"/"stalking" Gina and company? the one that I immediately sniffed out as a bad actor, and that at least one of the new Fosstodon mods were following and like-reacting?
well, they made one or more posts yesterday containing a bunch of ableist and homophobic slurs, as well as an accusation that "Antifa" murders people.
to their credit, the mastodon.social mods seem to have taken quick action and subsequently banned the account.
anyway, I have a screenshot of an example, but it's (1) vile, and (2) kind of a moot point, so I won't be posting it.
that said, if we're to read the situation charitably, the fact that at least one of Fosstodon's new mod team was interacting favorably with such an obvious troll account is more evidence that the selected mods are unfit to do the job of moderating a multi-thousand-person instance.
and if we're to read the situation uncharitably? well - I don't even need to say it.