Hi everyone- I need to share some rather unfortunate news with you today.
I’ve decided to take action against woem.men. As part of a collection of administrators and instances who agree on suspending woem.men, we will be suspending woem.men in 14 days.
This will include:
We have decided to suspend woem.men as we find that they are no longer able to effectively maintain a safe environment for users. Here is a compilation of some of the issues that are publicly facing and available:
During the 14 days, we will keep the doors open to allow members of woem.men to transfer to other servers, and vice versa. Afterwards, the servers mentioned above will no longer allow for any communication from woem.men, which means you will need to register with another instance. If you are looking to keep in touch with your friends from woem.men, then it’s imperative in the next 14 days to transition to a new server - or to ask your friends to migrate!
I apologize for this news. I know that a lot of people are friends between our servers.
If you have any questions, please feel free to get in contact with me.
@sleepybisexual @julia No. The pedo stuff has happened twice and I’m fucking done with it. Ashten has done nothing to improve her administration, and it’s not acceptable.
@julia oh shit. I knew of the Hanna situation but didn’t know about the second.
@julia @sleepybisexual hi! what’s the measure of improving administration here?
@amie @sleepybisexual Preventing groomers and sex pests from being in the same space as minors. It’s pretty fucking simple, and she’s done nothing to fix it.
@julia @sleepybisexual wait, that’s a very serious allegation
any details? is this happening?
@julia @sleepybisexual that doesn’t answer the last question and just repeats the points that have been circulating for a good year by now (and can be read in different contexts, obviously) – despite those exact instances not taking action before
is the 3rd point about refusing to use modshark for 24/7 proactive content moderation?
@amie @sleepybisexual Modshark can be used in a good way. Ashten had it configured to scan basically any fucking word that could maybe be construed as transphobia, which was an outright invasion of privacy.
If you set modshark up right, it is not invasive.
@julia @sleepybisexual are there any resources on doing it right?
and also, why does it seem to be the solution required by those instances? there are many ways to moderate content (and you can’t ever achieve perfection here, no matter what way)
@amie @sleepybisexual It’s not required. I’m just saying that calling it “invasive” because ashten set it up in an invasive manner is not indicative of the tool as a whole.
@amie also, I’ve been meaning to do this defed for a WHILE, I just couldn’t get the balls to fuckin do it, given the size of the instance.
The hanna situation personally effected me. I was groomed by her when I was 17 (she was 23 at the time). Seeing inaction when ashten let it happen a second time hurt me personally, and indicated to me that she wasn’t going to make any real effort to avoid pedos in the future.
@julia @sleepybisexual i didn’t use that word
@amie @sleepybisexual The tone of the message made it read with that meaning.
@julia @sleepybisexual @amie on the “keeping an eye on” thing, I can maybe make like a tiny bit of sense out of it;
like from like a “your trying to improve i can maybe help you” kinda way, maybe?
Or maybe a “it’s better watch you and intervene if something happens than let you go around other places and potentially hurt ppl” it makes a *little* sense?
But it seems misguided especially on a mixed age instance where there would be minors around, but like this is about all I can think of
@sleepybisexual @amie @Li its a sexually charged meme in a space with minors.
@julia @sleepybisexual @amie i never interpreted it as sexual honestly .. 🤷♀️
but like once you point it out seems kinda obvious how it could be,
It seems more likely just a not well thought decision to make it a loading message rather than as like something malicious?
@Li @julia @sleepybisexual any of you, pls untag me, julia blocks me but sharkey still sends notifications for empty posts
@admin @julia dystopia.zip and anarchist.au (same admin) will also be defederating in 14 days