<2021-03-23T13:47:42.000Z> MechaSilvio: I cleared having some bots with @graf bc I wanted a few and big ex twitter guy @MarkSandals wanted some Jap hamsterpost accounts and offered to pay for them (to Poast ofc)
<2021-03-23T13:49:13.000Z> MechaSilvio: Sorry the initial experiment went off the rails 😂 I'll set all to low rate no backlog
<2021-03-23T13:54:54.000Z> lewdthewides: That's no problem. But bot spam is something that other instances will block us for
<2021-03-23T13:55:28.000Z> lewdthewides: That was definitely way too much
<2021-03-23T13:59:31.000Z> MechaSilvio: I'll spread the bots through several instances then. Thanks!
<2021-03-23T14:00:10.000Z> lewdthewides: NP. Also I'm glad we were able to clear up what happened last night. Can I ask you a question?
<2021-03-23T14:02:13.000Z> MechaSilvio: Sure
<2021-03-23T14:04:18.000Z> lewdthewides: For the better part of a year, I've been out of the loop with what goes on in our circles. Why is fedposting seen as a free speech issue? 
<2021-03-23T14:05:26.000Z> lewdthewides: What exactly is there to gain by doing it?
<2021-03-23T14:06:48.000Z> MechaSilvio: I think the issue is more contrarianism than anything else. They will purity spiral and try to test sites' limits
<2021-03-23T14:07:25.000Z> lewdthewides: They acknowledge that the government pretty much wants them dead. Why even want to stick our head out like that, and drag along others with you?
<2021-03-23T14:08:30.000Z> MechaSilvio: No idea. They might want the thrill of being edgy
<2021-03-23T14:08:48.000Z> MechaSilvio: It's very self indulgent 
<2021-03-23T14:11:25.000Z> MechaSilvio: I mean I do enjoy edgeposts as long as they're funny and plausibly deniable. Prob govs could go after those too if they wanted too, removing tone & satire
<2021-03-23T14:12:44.000Z> MechaSilvio: Honestly I thought we were over the unironic Fedposting, but every year makes some comeback
<2021-03-23T14:13:43.000Z> lewdthewides: Makes no sense. I'm not exactly a strict opticsfag myself, but when you do it on twitter the liability lies on some faggot pajeet in twitter HQ. When you do it on the fediverse, the liability falls on people who are more or less on your side
<2021-03-23T14:17:48.000Z> MechaSilvio: Welcome to the right wing, bro. It's full of retards, contrarians and other types like those and it will always be! It was the same in the 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's 
<2021-03-23T14:20:14.000Z> MechaSilvio: The other problem is nobody likes that unfunny stuff, and if your site gets full of those, collapses
<2021-03-23T14:22:20.000Z> lewdthewides: I've pretty much given up at this point. There are issues that always need to be fought on moral grounds, example being mutilating a 5 year old's body because he said he was a girl....but as far as returning to traditional values, it's over
<2021-03-23T14:24:10.000Z> lewdthewides: What point do you just stop beating yourself up over shit that you can't change, and instead try and enjoy what life you're able to have?
<2021-03-23T14:24:52.000Z> lewdthewides: Democracy will never provide the solution that's needed
<2021-03-24T01:36:07.000Z> MechaSilvio: I'm a collapsitarian. Just loot the gay empire (whatever you can), improve yourself, improve your friends, also build infrastructure to accelerate the collapse
<2021-03-24T01:36:46.000Z> MechaSilvio: (Collapse not as BOOOM it's over, but as decay and stuff getting shittier)
<2021-03-30T23:44:25.000Z> lewdthewides: Sorry, but my patience is pretty thin right now. I know he said kill yourself to one of us just now, but it's the exact same thing he did that started everything last Friday. Could have went around it in a more non-frontational manner, but I wasn't about to see him start more shit without some kind of acknowledgement he saw our new rules, especially about harassing other instances unprovoked
<2021-03-31T00:07:51.000Z> MechaSilvio: All good, just a misunderstanding. 
<2021-03-31T00:08:11.000Z> MechaSilvio: Just stop caring as much, bro
<2021-03-31T00:08:22.000Z> MechaSilvio attached file https://poa.st/media/5fb94ac111e05c438003c87a585a28c480f42d7f30d1c85a5694671abb90d63e.jpeg
<2021-03-31T00:26:40.000Z> lewdthewides: Thanks. That's the only account I recognize from Friday that was responsible, so I won't be doing that again. 
<2021-03-31T06:15:07.000Z> MechaSilvio: For your own mental health, just do the minimum and never explain. These wild animals will push every boundary, twist every metaphorical knife in any mod
<2021-04-01T22:31:49.000Z> MechaSilvio: Unlock @slovborg come on
<2021-04-01T23:24:41.000Z> lewdthewides: I don't mind him sticking around. But I also don't want him spamming kill yourself 15 times to random strangers at a time where we're being blocked by instances that use to tolerate us
<2021-04-01T23:27:28.000Z> MechaSilvio: That wasn't the issue that triggered that, it was all intra instance
<2021-04-01T23:28:03.000Z> MechaSilvio: And everyone bullycided him for shitty content in the TL
<2021-04-01T23:30:49.000Z> MechaSilvio: Locking people and demanding apologies looks pretty bad too
<2021-04-01T23:32:03.000Z> lewdthewides: Not asking for an apology. Asking him if he acknowledges our rules to stay on the instance
<2021-04-01T23:32:54.000Z> lewdthewides: This goes back to last Friday
<2021-04-02T01:16:32.000Z> MechaSilvio: Looks pretty bad and capricious, tbh. No different from twitter making you delete the tweet from being a naughty boy
<2021-04-02T01:17:17.000Z> MechaSilvio: Just ban him if he starts spamming again and that's it. This is just petty
<2021-04-02T02:50:03.000Z> lewdthewides: It sounds like he already made up his mind what he's going to do next, so what difference does it make 2 days later. I made my bed and I'm going to live by my decision. If you're worried about the instance, graf knows why I'm doing this, and I'm not planning on doing this ever again. Nor do I think I will need to with the revised rules
<2021-04-02T03:59:18.000Z> MechaSilvio: It matters to me, and probably to others
<2021-04-02T04:01:25.000Z> MechaSilvio: I wanna know if admins are ever on the wrong are they just gonna double down forever
<2021-04-02T04:13:45.000Z> lewdthewides: With regard to this person, I will double down. A boiling point was reached last weekend with graf and the others, and he played a major part in that....and he seems very proud of it. I didn't feel comfortable watching him pick up where he left off on anyone without questioning him
<2021-04-02T04:15:34.000Z> MechaSilvio: Yeah but it wasn't spam, nor Inter instance
<2021-04-02T04:16:10.000Z> MechaSilvio: Nuke his account if he does it again I don't care about THAT
<2021-04-02T04:16:42.000Z> MechaSilvio: I care about the "you gotta kiss the admin's boot" shit
<2021-04-02T04:18:31.000Z> MechaSilvio: Locking people's accounts until they admit stuff looks pretty fucking bad
<2021-04-02T04:19:30.000Z> MechaSilvio: It's the opposite to what we're trying to build
<2021-04-02T04:38:12.000Z> lewdthewides: I appologize, but I'll have to reply back in the morning. Goodnight
<2021-04-02T04:38:50.000Z> MechaSilvio: G'nite
<2021-04-02T17:58:22.000Z> lewdthewides: Good morning (well, afternoon now)I think since a month ago, there's been a change of plans with what we're trying to build now. Building a community around people who just can't accept that not even this place is the wild west is not a community that will last. Quality over quantity is how I want to see poa.st grow, and probably how graf wants it as well. Even if that entails much slower growth.As far as slovborg goes, the last thing I'm going to say about him is that I will not take this approach ever again. Deleting the post in question, giving them a link to the rules, and banning them at the next incident is the cleanest way to go about this. I know this particular case started over something inter-instance, bu t it was a question I needed to ask him before he wanted to take that same kill yourself shit to other instances again. It's already been 3 days of him and his buddies mocking all this, so I'm just going to call this my graf moment and learn from it. 
<2021-04-03T11:30:30.000Z> MechaSilvio: This is all gay cope. Many users, me included, stopped the Kill yourself spam on its tracks because it's shitty content. This is something you overreacted to  and doubled down and are justifiably  being mocked for. All you have to go was do nothing. Now it's war on  jannies