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.

  • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
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    1 year ago

    I think you have a different view on the project from reality. According to Wikipedia, the name “The Gimp” is a Pulp Fiction reference. The people who came up with the name “The Gimp” don’t even work on Gimp anymore. They’re CEO and CTO of the company developing CockroachDB. To imply that the volunteers running Gimp’s social media are some slur-crazy edgelords is counter productive.

    I don’t think any people think of the slur when talking about the project, and I think this is a bunch of Twitter drama nonsense. If you want to change it, then join the project and change it, don’t harass volunteers.

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      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”.