cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6853479

mastodon.art has decided to suspend firefish.social from their instance due to issues with its administrator. The administrator of firefish.social was found to be boosting posts from a known harasser on another instance. mastodon.art takes a firm stance against racism and suspending full instances in these situations is part of their policy as a safe space. The known harasser has a history of using slurs, harassment, and editing screenshots to spread misinformation. However, the administrator of firefish.social has now forged a screenshot to paint mastodon.art in a negative light.

  • Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    A slur is a slur, no matter how you dress it.

    If I made a program named “Fag*ot”, I’m sure, nobody cared about my story how it’s just a bunch of sticks.

    If you want to change it, then join the project and change it

    That’s not how it works. But there’s an effort to fork the program and rename it.

    don’t harass volunteers

    The ‘harassment’: “can we join your instance?” - “no, your program name is a slur”.