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@maisiesummers Yep, there's definitely a glitch, hopefully @theadmin will be able to track it down in due course. As far as I can tell the local timeline seems to be unaffected in the meantime.... --Zeborah

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@maisiesummers Yep, there's definitely a glitch, hopefully @theadmin will be able to track it down in due course. As far as I can tell the local timeline seems to be unaffected in the meantime.... --Zeborah

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Thanks to everyone who reports spam/offensive content to help us keep mastodon.nz a great community!

Sometimes though we don't have the same context/background as you so we're not immediately sure what the issue being reported is. To help us respond to reports as quickly as possible, it would be really helpful if you can add a brief explanation eg "saying X is ableist" or "this is really transphobic in the context of the post it's responding to".

Cheers and Meri Kirihimete!

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Thanks to everyone who reports spam/offensive content to help us keep mastodon.nz a great community!

Sometimes though we don't have the same context/background as you so we're not immediately sure what the issue being reported is. To help us respond to reports as quickly as possible, it would be really helpful if you can add a brief explanation eg "saying X is ableist" or "this is really transphobic in the context of the post it's responding to".

Cheers and Meri Kirihimete!

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@Tzarscream Yes, it does. Let us know if you need instructions for migrating your followers to another server.

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@Tzarscream Yes, it does. Let us know if you need instructions for migrating your followers to another server.

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@MikeBartley There are some things we seek community feedback on, but we make moderation decisions based on server rules. As moderators we need to put the wellbeing of the collective ahead of individual desires, and we don't want to expose our community to bulk data and privacy abuse. Of course individuals with different priorities always have the choice to change instances - meanwhile, you can be confident that we're doing our best to keep mastodon.nz a safe and friendly community.

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@MikeBartley There are some things we seek community feedback on, but we make moderation decisions based on server rules. As moderators we need to put the wellbeing of the collective ahead of individual desires, and we don't want to expose our community to bulk data and privacy abuse. Of course individuals with different priorities always have the choice to change instances - meanwhile, you can be confident that we're doing our best to keep mastodon.nz a safe and friendly community.

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@jononz That's understandable! Everyone has different priorities for what they want out of social media and one of the great things about the Fediverse is it does make it easier to shift around and find the right place for you. -Zeborah

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@jononz That's understandable! Everyone has different priorities for what they want out of social media and one of the great things about the Fediverse is it does make it easier to shift around and find the right place for you. -Zeborah

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[1] https://gizmodo.com/meta-instagram-fac ebook-trans-moderation-1849994959

[2] https://www. pbs.org/newshour/nation/social-media-platforms-fail-to-stop-lgbtq-hate-speech-according-to-glaad-report

[3] https://www. theguardian.com/us-news/2023/d ec/14/elizabeth-warren-mark-zuckerberg-meta-instagram-censorship

[4] https://www. usatoday.com/story/money/2023/08/17/antisemitism-on-social-media-rising/70605213007/

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[1] https://gizmodo.com/meta-instagram-fac ebook-trans-moderation-1849994959

[2] https://www. pbs.org/newshour/nation/social-media-platforms-fail-to-stop-lgbtq-hate-speech-according-to-glaad-report

[3] https://www. theguardian.com/us-news/2023/d ec/14/elizabeth-warren-mark-zuckerberg-meta-instagram-censorship

[4] https://www. usatoday.com/story/money/2023/08/17/antisemitism-on-social-media-rising/70605213007/

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Kia ora koutou, it seems timely to note that mastodon.nz will not be federating with Threads. This is for a number of reasons:

* Deficient moderation policies that are over-reliant on algorithms with inadequate human supervision [1][2][3][4]

* Their policy is to scrape everyone's personal data to feed their ad algorithms

* Their owners have a history of joining > taking over > destroying platforms and we don't want the Fediverse to be taken over and destroyed.

[citations tbc]

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Kia ora koutou, it seems timely to note that mastodon.nz will not be federating with Threads. This is for a number of reasons:

* Deficient moderation policies that are over-reliant on algorithms with inadequate human supervision [1][2][3][4]

* Their policy is to scrape everyone's personal data to feed their ad algorithms

* Their owners have a history of joining > taking over > destroying platforms and we don't want the Fediverse to be taken over and destroyed.

[citations tbc]

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@maisiesummers Currently it's not (to the best of my knowledge!) set up. We've alerted @theadmin to this thread too though, as the technical stuff falls more within his expertise. --Zeborah

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@maisiesummers Currently it's not (to the best of my knowledge!) set up. We've alerted @theadmin to this thread too though, as the technical stuff falls more within his expertise. --Zeborah

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...And both are now updated and also linked from our profile. --Zeborah

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...And both are now updated and also linked from our profile. --Zeborah

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@v_for_verbosity Good idea, thanks! We've just updated our profile to include the link.

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@v_for_verbosity Good idea, thanks! We've just updated our profile to include the link.

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You'll see the rule on the mastodon.nz/about page and mastodon.nz/rules pdf change shortly. —ATM

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You'll see the rule on the mastodon.nz/about page and mastodon.nz/rules pdf change shortly. —ATM

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Kia ora koutou, the poll has closed and the result is in; 83% in favour of the change, and 17% against it. We’ve decided we will be changing rule seven to this new definition, effective immediately, however there will be a week’s grace period till we start enforcing this updated rule. We will be putting up an announcement banner to inform users of this change and encourage you to transition to the new rule immediately.

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Kia ora koutou, the poll has closed and the result is in; 83% in favour of the change, and 17% against it. We’ve decided we will be changing rule seven to this new definition, effective immediately, however there will be a week’s grace period till we start enforcing this updated rule. We will be putting up an announcement banner to inform users of this change and encourage you to transition to the new rule immediately.

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@Kay We'll take that perspective into account, I certainly agree with it.
On CW, we might consider giving guidance for what specific politics should be CW, but most people are quite sensible when it comes to CW things, and from experience, people in the community are polite in pointing out posts that should be CW and users oft' listen. Even if we do write guidance, the chances of people reading them is somewhat low (esp considering some people didn't even know about the rule to CW politics) —ATM

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@Kay We'll take that perspective into account, I certainly agree with it.
On CW, we might consider giving guidance for what specific politics should be CW, but most people are quite sensible when it comes to CW things, and from experience, people in the community are polite in pointing out posts that should be CW and users oft' listen. Even if we do write guidance, the chances of people reading them is somewhat low (esp considering some people didn't even know about the rule to CW politics) —ATM

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@Kay https://mastodon.nz/@themods/111480777 649085197 gives a rough direction of what we consider *is* politics, just there is some grey area such as with non-elected politicians, lobbies, campaigns, etc.. —ATM

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@Kay https://mastodon.nz/@themods/111480777 649085197 gives a rough direction of what we consider *is* politics, just there is some grey area such as with non-elected politicians, lobbies, campaigns, etc.. —ATM

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@Kay We'll be enforcing politics the same as we always have with CWs, a laissez-faire approach, nothing will change in that regard with the shift to tags.
Personally I'd consider Julian Batchelor a politician because by definition he is—actively involved in politics, not necessarily holding office. I'll bring up the potential need to get a more solid definition up, apologies for the broadness. —ATM

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@Kay We'll be enforcing politics the same as we always have with CWs, a laissez-faire approach, nothing will change in that regard with the shift to tags.
Personally I'd consider Julian Batchelor a politician because by definition he is—actively involved in politics, not necessarily holding office. I'll bring up the potential need to get a more solid definition up, apologies for the broadness. —ATM

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Now, onto the actual voting. We again remind you that this is non-binding, we mods have the final say. If you are not on mastodon.nz, we would appreciate if you did not vote in this poll, should you wish to express your thoughts, please do so in a reply.
Vote “Yes” if you want to see rule seven change to the proposal above this post, vote “No” if you want to keep the current rule of mandating CWs on politics.Voting closes in 1 Day. (5/5)

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Now, onto the actual voting. We again remind you that this is non-binding, we mods have the final say. If you are not on mastodon.nz, we would appreciate if you did not vote in this poll, should you wish to express your thoughts, please do so in a reply.
Vote “Yes” if you want to see rule seven change to the proposal above this post, vote “No” if you want to keep the current rule of mandating CWs on politics.Voting closes in 1 Day. (5/5)

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The modified rule proposal is now: “Content Warnings are mandatory on posts containing gore and/or, violence. Posts about politics must be tagged one or more of #nzpol, #tōrangapū, #pol, and/or #politics, and optionally may be content warned.” (4/5)

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The modified rule proposal is now: “Content Warnings are mandatory on posts containing gore and/or, violence. Posts about politics must be tagged one or more of #nzpol, #tōrangapū, #pol, and/or #politics, and optionally may be content warned.” (4/5)

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The use of #AoPol has also not been implemented into the updated rule both due to its use as the ISO 3166 code for Angola, and its potential more broadly to mean earth/global/world, but in the interests of using te reo Māori, we've added #tōrangapū—which is the Māori word for politics—as an option for tagging. Lastly, we will be sure to create a thread reminding everyone on how to use filters should this rule pass. (3/5)

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The use of #AoPol has also not been implemented into the updated rule both due to its use as the ISO 3166 code for Angola, and its potential more broadly to mean earth/global/world, but in the interests of using te reo Māori, we've added #tōrangapū—which is the Māori word for politics—as an option for tagging. Lastly, we will be sure to create a thread reminding everyone on how to use filters should this rule pass. (3/5)

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We've decided that we won't make tagging a guideline, this is because we want to make it easy for people to find (or not find), and self-moderate the quantity of political content (tagging gets people to think is this necessary?). (2/5)

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We've decided that we won't make tagging a guideline, this is because we want to make it easy for people to find (or not find), and self-moderate the quantity of political content (tagging gets people to think is this necessary?). (2/5)