@ideasmithy@mastodon.social Depending on your client (browser or smartphone App), somewhere near that post you will find 3 dots. It's a menu that contains the 'Report' button that communicates the abuse to the admind of your Instance and eventually to the admins of the Instance of the abuser.
After reporting the post you can block the user.
Take a look of the name of the Instance of the abuser. If you will notice in the future that more that one abuser comes from the same Instance, you could decide to block for yourself the entire Instance and also propose to your Instance admins to block it for everyone. @citrustwee @Gargron
@ideasmithy@mastodon.social Mastodon gives lot of tools to block abusers but remember that it's impossible to block every single abuse. On Mastodon, simply, abusers dont last long 😎 @citrustwee @Gargron
@bisaat The real solution is to avoid gigantic Instances like mastodon.social (sorry Eugen 😅) in favour of small and medium Istances that are more specific about a community.
To make an example, my Instance is community driven (there are also meetings by person) and the active users decides the policies together with the admins. It's not rare that some users explains to the admins which Instance must be blocked 😄
Usually an abuser lasts 10 minutes by us because ALL the users collaborate to moderation with commonly discussed policies.
If there are strange massive registrations oyr admins interruots them.
It's also possible to make the registrations only by invitation.
@ideasmithy@mastodon.social @citrustwee @Gargron
@Ca_Gi @ideasmithy @citrustwee @Gargron I agree instances have to be community driven and they are as good as people moderating them and the active users helping the moderation.
The problem arises with India's large population, even a niche community would have HUGE followers. The community drive instances would initially start small, but with increasing users, they too would become gigantic, and then the tools provided by Mastodon would be insufficient.
@bisaat You can set a limit of users to ab Instance and decide, by example, to block any contact with Instances bigger than (for example) 10.000 users or silence Instances with open registration.
The point is to fragment the power and risks connected with huge and centralized platforms to better manage the way you connect to other groups.
@ideasmithy@mastodon.social @citrustwee @Gargron
I must also tell you about Gab! It's a social network for right-wing extremists based in USA. When Gab was banned by the App Store and Play Store, they rapidly converted in a Mastodon Instance! A 1 million fascist-users Instance means 1/4 of all the entire Mastodon userbase. When that happened many madia declared that 'now Mastodon is a fascist network'.
The truth is that in less than a week 98% of the Mastodon Instances blocked Gab. In fact I have personally seen only 2 or 3 posts of that people before the block and by my experience I 'live' on a fascist-free Instance 😎 @bisaat @ideasmithy@mastodon.social @citrustwee @Gargron
@Ca_Gi @bisaat @ideasmithy @citrustwee @Gargron I actually donated to gab.ai. Was dismayed at the turn they took.
@wabbster Well, it was quute predictable, knowing the people that run the project, theur friends and also some other signals like the frog as their logo 🙄 @bisaat @ideasmithy@mastodon.social @citrustwee @Gargron
@Ca_Gi Thanks for the replies.
That's great, and I hope our instances can stay fascist free.
There are also some useful acciunts like @isolategab that monitors and reports the acrivity of Gab users outside Gab or the few remaining Instances that didn't block it.
This isn't something that can be don automaticly by software, but is the activity of people that share some values and actively works to mantain this platform what it is. Don't rely on admins and don't expect to be served by others but work on it with the people that are here with you.
@bisaat @ideasmithy@mastodon.social @citrustwee @Gargron
@Ca_Gi @bisaat @ideasmithy @citrustwee @Gargron quite a few Indian Right wing extremists on Gab too. They promote their gab.ai handles on Twitter.
@ullulullu They can stay on their isolated Instance as long as they want 😎 Follow @isolategab to be updated about their activity outside their Instance @bisaat @ideasmithy@mastodon.social @citrustwee @Gargron
Thank you for that mention!
Yes we will remain watchful and Gab is a home to far-right extremists from many countries including India. #IsolateGab
@Ca_Gi @bisaat @ideasmithy @citrustwee @Gargron wtf! Terrible!
@null0x0 Terrible? No: the opposite! Every platform with 1/4 of his users being fascists will be condamned to become a nazi-site but the structure of Mastodon based on independent Instances + the teamwork of the communities, isolated Gab in a matter of days 😃 @bisaat @ideasmithy@mastodon.social @citrustwee @Gargron
@Ca_Gi @ideasmithy @citrustwee @Gargron I understand mastodon gives lots of tools to block abusers, but they would fall short in front of the paid army of abusers and trolls from India. They are often being paid to abuse and they would go to any length carry out their abuse. Mastodon would have to provide more tools to counter that.