Post AzSW8eit5vrtNdqhwO by rzeta0@mas.to
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(DIR) Post #AzSW6FtiQKzpo4lkdE by fabio@manganiello.online
2025-10-21T20:24:22.409734Z
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Ok folks, now this is fucking PERSONAL.mastodon.social is managed by Zionists and genocide apologists.It’s not only a few isolated accounts. It’s their whole staff.My new profile has been limited again, even though there was not a single element of antisemitism in anything I posted, and all of my activity was around gaza-verified.In the meantime Zionist accounts and serial harassers like 8124 are still free to act with impunity.Please, PLEASE, support me now. All of my followers. As loud as you can.I have supported many so far, now I need your support.The motherfuckers that manage mastodon.social must be called accountable and be publicly shamed.All the gaza-verified accounts must be migrated out of that instance.I call for a #Fediblock against mastodon.social, for all of my friends on that instance to move out, and for the Fediverse to isolate these unaccountable motherfuckers.They have NOT A SINGLE FUCKING RIGHT of saying that they support initiatives for Gaza while they keep platforming genocide deniers with impunity and harassing me for no reason.They don’t have a SINGLE FUCKING RIGHT of taking credit while folks like me donate, coordinate support networks, spin up Web services for these initiatives and expose themselves to threats - and all they do is sit on their lazy asses and get free publicity.mastodon.social has become the CESSPIT OF THE INTERNET, and it ought to be defederated just like Gab and poa-st.Move all out of it. It’s not a safe place. Let it be the cesspit of Hasbara propaganda that it wants to be. Let it be a safe place just for Zionist scumbags who congratulate each other for the nefarious smell of their own farts, and for denying that there’s a genocide in Gaza because not enough kids have died.@aral @staff #gaza #palestine #mutualaid
(DIR) Post #AzSW8eit5vrtNdqhwO by rzeta0@mas.to
2025-10-21T20:52:44Z
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@fabio @aral @staff For any reader new to this issue let me make clear1. this is not an isolated incident, mastodon-social has been behaving badly for a long time2. this is not isolated to Fabio, many people have been censored, suspended, blocked, hidden, encouraged to leave by mastodon-social(I speak from personal experience, I say this not to make it about me, but to say there are first-hand witnesses)
(DIR) Post #AzSWAMjwvRhWBdA3JQ by fabio@manganiello.online
2025-10-21T23:38:38.137115Z
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@staff for sake of transparency, I’ll post some more insights about this decision here too.Again, limitations against my account where caused by a report by @8124. In a long post where I dismantled all of their ultra-Zionist propaganda, they decided to cherry-pick only the last words (as usual, without even bothering to respond to the other points, without tagging me, and without facing me directly):After the tragedy of the Holocaust people like you had a choice: either become beacons of humanity, or become the reincarnation of the butchers that brought hate and death upon you. You’ve decided to become the latter, and you should be ready to face the consequencesFYI, these words were not mine, but a direct quote Paolo Consiglio - a very respected Italian intellectual and professor, whose post I shared just a couple of days ago.I advise you to read the whole post, where he also mentions how Jewish history shaped his sensitivity and how sympathetic he is to the Jewish people. He mentions Primo Levi and Schindler’s List as his moral reference points.Note: “you” in the quote above clearly refers to ultra-Zionists and genocide supporters like @8124. Not to the Jewish people. No reference to the Jewish people is actually present in the whole post. So if you interpret it as an accusation against all Jewish people then I must automatically assume that you are in bad faith, and simply looking for a reason to ostracize anti-Zionist voices.If I had called Russian ultra-nationalists that support the war in Ukraine “butchers who should face the consequences of their actions” would you also have limited my account for being anti-slavic? Or does it apply only to Israel?If Paolo Consiglio had posted that very same text on mastodon.social, would you have banned him too?Just like in another case @8124 cherry-picked words from Bertrand Russell’s famous last letter about the Palestinian cause that I included in one of my posts (“What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy“) to frame me: had Russell, a Nobel Prize and one of the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century, been alive today and posted that letter on mastodon.social, would you have banned him too?Your hypocrisy is astounding. Your decision is baseless, and you know it. You literally pick all the decontextualized bullshit that that motherfucker posts and turn it verbatim into moderation decisions - even if it’s quotes from other very respected intellectuals. Which proves my point that that account is not just a random troll: it’s someone who has a very deep influence on what the staff of the instance decides - and probably a staff member itself. And @staff is also being extremely opaque about this connection.You are clueless of how to moderate a large social network instance. You are muscular against anti-genocide voices and pavid towards genocide apologists. You can’t even recognize academic references. You prefer to listen to a scumbag whose sole purpose is to deny genocide, harass genocide victims and discredit humanitarian initiatives, and who instead of keeping their decisions grounded in academic consensus keeps mentioning quotes from the same Kahanist text peer-reviewed by nobody as it was the apex of academic consensus. You ignore that dozens if not hundreds of accounts have reported @8124, that nobody even interacts with that person, and everyone has shown solidarity to me instead.Aral, of course, has the last word on this. But let me tell you that from my side mastodon.social is dead. mastodon.social is as bad as babka.social and even worse (even babka.social apparently suspended @8124 because too extreme). Waiting for Aral’s point on this issue, but from my side I’ll start helping the gaza-verified contacts that I’m most close with to move away from the main instance. And please, please, never say again that you support pro-Gaza initiatives: you don’t deserve to get positive publicity from this.You clearly can’t protect them from harassment. You clearly prefer to platform Kahanist voices rather than those who oppose them, and you made it very clear that you will tolerate @8124 publicly threatening me to get me fired or harassing the victims rather than me calling genocide apologists accountable.I repeat: mastodon.social is the worst ultra-Zionist cesspit of the Internet, it shelters terrorists who conflagrate criticism of government’s actions with criticism of someone’s identity (a big red flag for fascism btw) and it suspends those who criticize them, and even a reversal of their abhorrent decision won’t change my stance.#palestine #gaza #genocide #mutualaid #Fediblock
(DIR) Post #AzSaXfjsqzONaVV13A by newt@stereophonic.space
2025-10-22T07:22:04.268053Z
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@fabio @aral @staff lmao gargron getting cancelled for being a jew
(DIR) Post #AzSaoyh9d3lbIlTUGW by p
2025-10-22T07:25:27.644921Z
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@newt @fabio @aral @staff > My new profile has been limited again, even though there was not a single element of antisemitism in anything I postedThat Fabio guy can join the club.
(DIR) Post #AzSb7eYgij3eLqQ4q8 by newt@stereophonic.space
2025-10-22T07:28:43.668679Z
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@p @fabio @aral @staff hey i've been banned from babka.social despite me being a jew. Can I join too?
(DIR) Post #AzSbG8wzbj2UvXpuka by captainepoch@stereophonic.space
2025-10-22T07:25:02.449831Z
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@fabio @aral @staff People for the past few years: "You should not be at mastodon.social anymore, choose another instance".Fabio now: "THIS IS PERSONAL".Dude...
(DIR) Post #AzSblpfuoBwoPbxWRU by p
2025-10-22T07:36:05.834275Z
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@newt @aral @fabio @staff Funny story, he's blocked 399 instances but:> These folks have literally blocked half of the Fediverse. 1000 blocked instances is insanity. With no transparency about their decisions, with no appeals, with no context. Not only, they have banned even domains that aren't even federated, just because they were associated to some of the admins/mods! Their level of moderation is extremely poor and they aren't even explicit upfront with their users that, despite being a large instance, they won't see a good chunk of the Fediverse there. And, being such a large instance, their bad and unaccountable moderation has a huge impact on the Fediverse as a whole, as many just copy their blocklists around and end up blocking legitimate instances without knowing why. I am not blocking them here only because they are a large instance and I don't want to punish their users for the mistakes of their admins, but I strongly recommend their users to consider moving to any better moderated instance.And> For as much as I agree with many of their principles, an instance with ~100 users that proclaims itself as the ethical police of the Fediverse and blocks anyone who disagrees with them even on a single point (which currently includes >800 instances) is insufferable. Most of the problematic instances are blocked by any sensible admin anyway, we don't need their poorly curated lists with no context. Their role as the moral puritans of the Fediverse, constantly hostile towards everyone and constantly on the defensive, is neither needed, nor wanted, nor it adds any value.https://fba.ryona.agency/?reverse=manganiello.online
(DIR) Post #AzScoOn5JvC9r36GsC by newt@stereophonic.space
2025-10-22T07:47:31.394341Z
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@p @fabio lmao he's blocked us too :comfyunamused:
(DIR) Post #AzSd0RZ4peqPvvI8FU by sicp@freebeerextremist.com
2025-10-22T07:49:49.786716Z
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@p @fabio @aral @staff @newt aside from casting the first stone, I wonder if at any point these guys consider just turning federation off. I mean, do these guys just sit around all fuckin' day like mall cops, F5'ing TWKN looking for instances to block?
(DIR) Post #AzSdNNjBGRr0h2xHQ8 by p
2025-10-22T07:54:05.307097Z
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@sicp @aral @fabio @newt @staff He's a single-user instance.> I mean, do these guys just sit around all fuckin' day like mall cops, F5'ing TWKN looking for instances to block? I think it's more like "reframed personal beef as moral imperative".
(DIR) Post #AzSe5cKCM0iGhtMYnw by sicp@freebeerextremist.com
2025-10-22T08:01:58.186549Z
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@p @fabio @aral @staff @newt > I think it's more like "reframed personal beef as moral imperative".Ya see I find even that hard to believe, cause the top 10 or so guys who block absolutely everyone seem to just come out of the blue, they don't even require any interaction.I just looked at the FBA for this instance and I got a new one 2 days ago. Blocked for "freeze peach", ok, whatever, just one of those screaming fag instances so not much was lost, but there's no posts from ANYONE there that got any interaction. So it makes me think they've got a mall cop.
(DIR) Post #AzSfNCjIM4U6UX3Gvw by judgedread@poa.st
2025-10-22T08:16:27.142527Z
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@fabio @aral @staff Nigger, Heil Hitler.
(DIR) Post #AzSfqXor1UkWIWdtdg by gnu2@gnusocial.jp
2025-10-22T08:20:55Z
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@p have you tried not being a shitty person?
(DIR) Post #AzShjguf0xwQNmDaXw by p
2025-10-22T08:42:56.428034Z
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@gnu2 I was a shitty person before mastodon.social existed; I don't see why I ought to change course now.
(DIR) Post #AzSiY6kpD9UL0VesDI by dcc@annihilation.social
2025-10-22T08:52:02.047898Z
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@p @gnu2 THIS IS A IRC NOTIFICATION (i should make a irc fedi notification bot)
(DIR) Post #AzSihtSNVQOwf4hDEW by bajax@baj.ax
2025-10-22T08:53:45.560781Z
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@gnu2 @p have you tried not catstrophizing people disagreeing with you?
(DIR) Post #AzSlejGdEWes3MNtku by StarProphet@noauthority.social
2025-10-22T09:26:50Z
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@fabio @aral @staff What did you expect the sons of apes and pigs will do when you criticize them, even in the slightest disagreement?Don’t give up on criticizing these vermin.#israel
(DIR) Post #AzSspMGnmBchapTmmO by nemo@mas.to
2025-10-21T20:27:37Z
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@fabio @aral @staff Sorry I'm on #teamfabio 💚 If you folks wanna block me too @ mastodon.social be my guest 🤷Edit: Domain blocked and shame on you folks ✅
(DIR) Post #AzSspNfIaaoRv5wrbM by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-22T10:46:27Z
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@nemo @fabio @staff Hey folks,OK, so here are the things I should be doing right now:• Finishing the bookkeeping for the Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal• Preparing for the fundraising campaign we’re planning for tomorrow so we can get Joy evacuated to safety• Preparing for the four verification calls we need to make to help project the accounts of four more families in Gaza• Maybe even checking off an item from my endless to-do list of things I need to do to help our families in GazaInstead, here is what I’m doing:· Spending the whole morning dealing with this.This is negatively affecting our work.I have to ask something of any of you who are allies: Please acknowledge that this is not about us. This is about helping our friends and families in Gaza.What does that mean?That means this isn’t about #teamFabio. There is no #teamFabio or #teamAral or #teamAnyoneElse. If you want a team, it’s team Gaza or team Palestine and the goal is to help the people there who are trying to survive famine and genocide.And we don’t do that by cutting the people of Gaza off from the ~250,000 people actively using mastodon.social.Not when they’ve both publicly and privately expressed their support Gaza Verified and opened a direct line to us so we’re informed about all moderation decisions regarding accounts from Gaza and when they’ve been working with me in good faith and responding almost immediately to requests. Every account from Gaza that has been suspended/limited by them since the start of this process was with due cause (e.g., sending huge amounts of replies to unrelated posts with the same post; sending automated posts, etc., things that are against own rules too as it leads to accounts being reported and bad will in general.) And every time after I had a chance to talk to the person in question to get them to stop breaking the rule in question, the account has been reinstated. You don’t see this work because it happens behind the scenes. But it does happen.Is having people from Gaza as spread out as possible on the fediverse good for resiliency? Yes, of course. That’s why we have the friendly servers list and I hope we will find ways of getting people to see it when it matters (before they join) as much as possible: https://gaza-verified.org/guide/#servers It’s a fact of life right now that people end up on mastodon.social because it is the default option on joinmastodon.org. I’ve expressed by displeasure with this many times over many years and it even cost me friendships. But, again, this isn’t about us. At this point, it would be an absolute nightmare to migrate existing accounts of people from Gaza off of mastodon.social. Even if this creates a rumour internally that they should do this, I’m afraid we are going to end up with people creating accounts on multiple servers, getting reported for multiple accounts, re-verifications… I had a hard enough time the first time that happened because a rumour started that people got more donations on some servers. It was hell. It’s the last thing the people in Gaza trying to survive genocide and famine need right now.Anyway, I want to both acknowledge the valuable work Fabio has been doing independently with things like the Gaza Verified Archive but also to make it clear that Fabio does not speak for Gaza Verified – Joy and I do. And we are not going to war with mastodon.social, we are working with them to ensure that the accounts of our Gaza Verified families that are on their instance are protected and have access to the large number of people on that instance that can help them with their daily survival needs.That said, I do hope that mastodon.social will also take note that the account related to this latest flare up (8124) has a long list of posts defaming myself and others for antisemitism. These are libellous statements that conflate criticism of Israel and criticism of Zionism with bigotry against Jewish people. I would take a bullet for any Jewish person being persecuted for being Jewish. The fact that I would also do so for a Palestinian from Gaza or that I would condemn Israel and Zionists for committing genocide doesn’t make me an antisemite, it makes me morally consistent. In fact, conflating opposition to genocide with antisemitism – which is what that account does – is about the most antisemitic thing you can do by stating that all Jews support Israel, that all Jews are Zionists, and that all Jews support genocide. If that account and its libellous statements remain up, it would be an idea to see if we can take some sort of collective legal action against the defamation.But to return to the topic at hand and I have to stress again: This is not about us. This is *not* personal. This is about protecting our friends and families in Gaza and ensuring that as much of the fediverse remains open and accessible as possible at a time when they need all the support they can get.I hope that we have you as allies in this going forward.💕#GazaVerified
(DIR) Post #AzSstTl5sMN1ycc4tk by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-22T10:46:49Z
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@fabio @staff In case it doesn’t show up in the thread, please see:https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115417414856483143
(DIR) Post #AzSu6eUFOpNay7ZwFU by nemo@mas.to
2025-10-22T11:00:47Z
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@aral @fabio @staff Mea culpa. I just wanted to state that I am in 100% support of the Gazan civilians as well as the people who help our marginalized friends keep this lifeline.My wording is not perfect. I'm sorry for this. 😃 I'm also not an anti-Semite, and I totally stand by what you’ve stated, Aral. I support marginalized civilians; it also doesn’t matter to me if they are Jewish, Palestinian, Ukrainian, etc.#teamgazan #teammarginalized 💚 🙏
(DIR) Post #AzT1CLJsH85iwHO5M8 by vii@dsmc.space
2025-10-22T12:20:59.531982Z
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@p @fabio @aral @newt 399 problems but a disagreeing opinion ain't one
(DIR) Post #AzT7qmmkB41bQkYi00 by echo@stereophonic.space
2025-10-22T13:35:28.939699Z
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@fabio @aral @staff
(DIR) Post #AzTjgqwHfv49fxiCDw by p
2025-10-22T20:39:32.930963Z
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@vii @aral @fabio @newt I'd speculate he's a psyop but there are people that dedicate their lives to screeching about Israel/Palestine on the internet full-time.I'm gonna start telling people I've never heard of Israel or Palestine and then expressing skepticism if they try to explain.
(DIR) Post #AzUzEzinDo35EL6E2i by vii@dsmc.space
2025-10-23T11:08:29.087905Z
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@p @fabio @aral @newt The hell is a Palestine? Is that in Kentucky?
(DIR) Post #AzW1TOMylsbgnOqi6S by p
2025-10-23T23:08:13.751124Z
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@vii @aral @fabio @newt That's in Ohio.