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(DIR) Post #AwFd22wbXAQS3Cjg5g by randahl@mastodon.social
2025-07-18T06:53:13Z
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Yesterday was my first bad day on Mastodon, and what happened to me could happen to you, so let me explain what went down, and how I got blocked by a lot of people.In March, I wrote a post critical of Musk (picture 1). I then asked another Mastodon user (Harriett) whom I have found friendly, if she would help me translate a Danish phrase to English, and linked to the Musk post where the phrase would be relevant.But yesterday — 4 months later — that blew up in my face. Here is how…1/7
(DIR) Post #AwFd245VHZ8db5uIbI by raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest
2025-07-18T07:42:38.569Z
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@randahl@mastodon.social The lesson here is bluesky and bridges to it are a plague just like twitter.
(DIR) Post #AwFd283WWrvnu70m4O by randahl@mastodon.social
2025-07-18T07:00:58Z
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You see, yesterday someone discovered that my old post requesting translation help had been mirrored onto Bluesky by the so-called bridge system. And that system had made the VERY unfortunate error of removing my link to the context about Elon Musk, and instead now linked to Harriett's profile page.So it now looked as if I was not talking about Elon Musk, but talking about Harriett (see picture) — as if I was making fun of this Mastodon user behind her back on Bluesky.2/7
(DIR) Post #AwFd2DHB7WpC5uRFY0 by randahl@mastodon.social
2025-07-18T07:05:04Z
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A person saw this unfortunate mishap on Bluesky and rightly found it suspicious looking, so that person then warned Harriett about it. She then got upset thinking I was making posts ridiculing her on Bluesky, blocked me, and then wrote about this to all of us here on Mastodon.I have no hard feelings about that, because the technical glitch really made it seem like I was a bad person.But then more people got upset, and a whole thread formed where people agreed I should be blocked.3/7
(DIR) Post #AwFd2IBgrMPDKKuRBg by randahl@mastodon.social
2025-07-18T07:09:05Z
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And while all of this went down, I was not even here. Because yesterday I hosted a party and was preparing dinner and entertaining guests here in Denmark.Then late in the evening when the guests went home, I sat down to check in on Mastodon, and all of hell had broken loose. Because everyone was thinking the Bluesky post came from me, the famous profile Gottalaff now entered the discussion which amplified it to her 33,000 users, and even more people blocked me, called me out etc.4/7
(DIR) Post #AwFd2MwHC62y3yjhM8 by randahl@mastodon.social
2025-07-18T07:13:38Z
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The only person who stopped to check if all of this was really true was @Gargron. And he wrote a very helpful post explaining that the bad post on Bluesky was created by the bridge system, which had linked to Harriett's profile and thereby changed the meaning of my original post.But Gargron's post was very technical, and I am not sure everyone understood it, and I was still getting angry responses, and more people blocked me.So I was very sad to discover all this late last night.5/7
(DIR) Post #AwFd2RwoZWRrb61hOC by randahl@mastodon.social
2025-07-18T07:18:27Z
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But here is the lesson we can all learn from this: If you see something strange where someone suddenly seems to change their behaviour and do something malicious, it is important to ask questions before concluding what is going on.In this case, a post which seemed like it was written by me was actually altered by an IT system that I have never given permission to do so — and it now seemed like I was spreading hatred.In conclusion: I blame no one for this incident. I fully understand…6/7
(DIR) Post #AwFd2XFQrjJO2Hm8bQ by randahl@mastodon.social
2025-07-18T07:21:49Z
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… why someone saw the Bluesky post and wanted to warn Harriett. I fully understand how Harriett could feel shocked that it looked like I was talking about her on another platform. And I fully understand how Gottalaff would amplify that and try to stop me from harassing Harriett.So please, do not send any negativity their way. Let us just all learn from this:Never jump to conclusions about other people. If you see sudden strange behaviour from someone, ask questions before concluding.7/7
(DIR) Post #AwFvBCJzpxiKunBs1o by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2025-07-18T11:05:57.763264Z
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> Yesterday was my first bad day on MastodonSorry to hear.> what happened to me could happen to youNo it can't, I shitpost enough to make sure that anyone who would block over a silly mistake already has.> I got blocked by a lot of peopleWelcome to the club, I guess... I actually don't know how many people block me, I don't care.> BlueskyI HOPE they're blocking me, that place is cancer.I'm here to have fun, and I'm thankful if unfun people will just block me, rather than bringing bad vibes into my normally very cool notifications tab...
(DIR) Post #AwFw10NFVEpWv1Pp2G by BasedLunatic@annihilation.social
2025-07-18T11:15:21.886242Z
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@cjd @randahl usually, just as in life, if you aren't a moron, you will seek out people that bring you something good. You won't go out in life and start befriending the most annoying people, that starts hurdling all sorts of insults all the time at you lol
(DIR) Post #AwIN558com7zvnfCgy by teadrinker@aus.social
2025-07-18T07:26:39Z
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@randahl So sorry to hear this, how upsetting for you (and others). An important reminder to think critically, always, especially when there's something weird
(DIR) Post #AwINLSed9XpBUzRazo by OhMyGod@infosec.exchange
2025-07-18T19:48:38Z
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@randahl The longer and deeper I'm trsveling through the fediverse it came out, filtering and blocking is contra productive.Filter1: assume I would never read something again about #trump. So now everyone blocking the hashtag will not read this post even it is not about trump.Filter2: there is a very important post with the #mustread tag with an event you would regularly join, but also we hope "#"trump is not reading this. Also blockedBlocking & muting people:There is a very interesting person with good content, you would read to 95%. But by bad luck you initally read an anger, bad topic post and devide to block.With multiaccounts I found out people in the other timeline not blocked had good posts.What's the conclusion? Like real life conversation, we don't need to agree to 100% with others, but we should be calm and tolerate an opposite opinion. Very often in lack of not knowing insiders and habits of others there is a chance to receive a message wrong.
(DIR) Post #AwIbVDKmMmx2Ephg5A by lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br
2025-07-19T18:08:20Z
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Never jump to conclusions about other people. If you see sudden strange behaviour from someone, ask questions before concluding.this, a thousand times this, and then some more 😉sorry this happened to you; such things have happened to me and others as well, and it sucksthe problem is IMHO people who hold the mistaken idea that one can suppress hateful behavior by behaving hatefully in reaction to perceived hatefulness. even if it worked in real cases, the emotional error rate is so high that it ends up amplifying hate. so, everyone, before setting out to react explosively, count to 10 (or to a million 😉 and investigate thoroughly, otherwise you may accidentally promote injustice and hatred.