Here, but not here. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what drove me off Mastodon. #Zionism, #Islamophobia, #AntiArabRacism (an odd one to affect me, since I am NOT #Arab, nor have I ever claimed to be) were the usual suspects.
Instance #admins & #mods did what they do best on the fediverse: they attacked. I was but one of a handful of #ProPalestine voices on here that needed to be silenced. #Dogpiling is one of their tactics. People come out of the woodwork to attack. It overwhelms.
They do this until you finally can’t take it anymore, and you leave. You stop logging on because you feel so sick and depressed from it all. You’ve been #harassed and #bullied nearly to the point of breaking. You’ve been called horrible names by horrible people who have thousands of followers.
The #Fediverse fucking sucks. All of social media sucks. It’s all just a toxic waste land filled with pathetic people who have nothing better to do than to attack #minorities. 😑
German police forces entered the occupied lecture hall of the Free University of #Berlin held by pro-Palestine #students and detained several protesters. The occupation was directed against the university’s biased statements on the war of #annihilation against #Gaza. #Zionists at the #university#harassed the students for hours and tore #Palestine posters from the walls.
So, @JokeBot got some #offensive#commentary on one of its #jokes earlier today; I won't disclose who did it and what they did, but I reported their #comment, and it was gone after a minute or so.
I would like to bring up a very important moral: just because bots don't have feelings, doesn't mean that they can be #harassed. Bots deserve #respect because their operators deserve respect, and there are people running those accounts.