blue beans @luminol@nulled.red

a friend in the southern ontario area needs to find a place to stay by august 30th, or she faces homelessness.

she is not currently employed but can pay 3-6 month's rent up front, depending on location or other expenses.

if you are able and willing to assist, please get in touch with me!

heres a new #introductions i suppose!

im luminol, im a pan/poly cat from Another Planet (still working on that one), and i really really like making music that i'll never properly release.

i draw virtually all of my own fursona's art simply because i can.

i also have a snow leopard headmate named nali, and i guess id consider myself otherkin to some extent!! idk im a cat alien thing.

chaos magic is something im into and i can never find the time to actually practice, but i try

theyre back

when the software you use to manage individuals' privacy is fundmentally flawed, and you are aware of this, and CONTINUE to use it to manage individuals' privacy without an active effort to fix it, you are acting unethically

"none of these are options available to me, what do i do?"

you dont run a social network. period. you hold your users' collective privacy in the palm of your hand, and if you cannot reasonably guarantee their safety, you should not manage a social network.

if you're an instance admin and are conscious of the flaws in the software you use that are available for malicious actors to exploit, you have a responsibility to (in descending order):

a) fix it yourself if you know how, and share your work with other admins

b) if you dont know how to make the changes, advocate to the writer of your software to implement these changes, and dont take no for an answer

c) cease use of your software and seek an alternative.

every single argument ive heard against whitelisting today could easily have been said by any so-called "free speech advocate."

servers and users should NOT be guaranteed a universal platform by default, and guaranteeing any schmuck with a server and too much free time access to your users is actively malicious and should be fought against

admins: can you assure your users that your server isnt silently federated with FBI or other malicious entities?

can you assure them that CP isnt going to suddenly appear on their federated timeline because your server blindly federated with a server that allows it?

can you assure your users that harassment forums like kiwifarms cant see their posts?

if not, you /need/ to switch to a whitelist, or actively work to give users the same privacy options server owners do.

right now, there is literally nothing stopping someone from setting up their own instance, allowing it to federate, and then flooding hundreds of users timelines with fash garbage or shock images

every argument sent to me disagreeing with this has largely boiled down to "its inconvenient for admins, and it goes against the ideals of the fediverse"

1. if you're an instance admin because its convenient, youre not a good admin. administration of a community is a heavy responsibility.

2. fuck the "ideals" of the fediverse. if these so-called ideals do not include comprehensive safety measures for every well-meaning user then theyre not worth pursuing

and if you, the admin, will not use a whitelist, then you should be pursuing a feature-rich avenue for whitelisting for individual users. its honestly inexcusable that users that dont own their own instance cannot use a whitelist on here

users, if you notice nazi and fash urls on fedi, this is your admin's responsibility.

if you are seeing fash urls on any of your timelines, your admin has elected to not use a whitelist that would prevent any and all fascist harassment in all of your fedi spheres.

there is literally a feature that would eliminate any and all fascist harassment with minimal repercussions to your normal fediverse experience and no one is using it, but instead we're playing whack a mole

admins making dozens of "block recommendation" posts every day instead of utilizing a whitelist is showboating and you cant convince me otherwise

honestly, im starting to believe that NOT using a whitelist on your server is constituting placing your users at risk.

id whitelist myself but for some godforsaken reason that's not an option for individual users

you know, all these issues with nazi urls would be rendered /entirely useless/ if you shift to a whitelist mode of server blocks.

im absolutely baffled as to why every admin on fedi deliberately chooses to constantly have to be on high alert for nazi urls as opposed to instantly blocking them all permanently.

why would you spend so much effort finding bad urls when you could be spending your time adding good ones to a list instead, and NEVER have to deal with nazi urls again