Egregoros

in 2021 I was real high strung and wouldn't take shit from anybody. i've calmed down a lot since then, relaxed and learned a lot from not only fedi elders but my own peers .

i made a decision this morning to remove i *think?* 11 defederated servers and attempted to restore their currently actively active users.

there are a few servers left, some will never be removed for reasons (CSAM, for example) and others that we will leave it up to the community to decide whether or not they want to see and interact with those users or not.

in 12 minutes (7 ET / 11 UTC) we will open a poll for poa.st users only that will include ONE INSTANCE ONLY - KF.CC -- and how the defederation should be handled:

option 1: full defederation, all users reactivated
option 2: partial defefeteration,above + users with activity within 24 hours
option 3: whitelist: users deemed by poast community to be of value to the community (i.e. crunklord, etc)
option 4: everything stays as it is, an MRF is written to allow the posts of those who the community deems important (again crunk, josh, whoeever else is important this month on kfcc)

it will be a 24 hour poll and whatever the results will stand.
i know KFcc users for the most part dont like me, some may hate me but I want to try to build this bridge. I told josh privately last summer that I wanted to mend bridges, so let's hope we can.

following this public post will be a private, instance only poll where poast users will be able to voice their opinion. when the results are final, there will be a third post and hopefully a resolution.

love you guys
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@graf inasmuch as I have a poast alt but am not a regular user per se, I believe that poast should federate with kiwifarms.cc. Users who need to not see the instance as a whole or individual kf.cc posters have sufficient tools at hand through domain mutes and user blocks to tailor their fediverse experiences to their wishes and not negatively impact their fellow instance users who may wish to communicate with this node, forcing them to seek alternate hosts in turn.
We as instance administrators should facilitate the interconnected network, and not segment it needlessly. Users who escalate personal grievances to network operators imperil the network at large. I think you personally should block or mute people you find distasteful, as an example to your users in correct behavior.
Thanks for reading my blogpost.