1. One moderator from fosstodon is not 100% aligned to the prevailing ideology on Fedi.

For clarity’s sake, the views the mod expressed were:

• Calling criticism of Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and transfer to Louisiana “yellow journalism” for using the phrase “disappeared”
• Defending the striking down of a school privacy policy that requires teachers get consent from LGBTQ+ kids before outing them to their parents
• Removing posts about surveillance of LGBTQ+ people in r/privacy for contradictory or unexplained reasons

3. The mob went on to presume that someone that is not 100% aligned to their prevailing ideology is unfit to be considered human - let alone a moderator - so they went after the admins.

Is all criticism now a “mob” just because they don’t want people with anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ+ views to have the power to censor others?

4. The admins claimed to have reviewed said mod actions, didn’t find anything out of the ordinary, but still got rid of them.

From what I saw, the admins actually said that they were fine with keeping him on the moderation team and the mod deleted their own accounts

6. Less-principled users of fosstodon are now just leaving the instance, for fear of being associated with them.

Are they? The most I saw was that people were considering leaving because other instances were going to start blocking Fosstodon

What is with the concealing and downplaying of the mod’s views and then exaggerating the “outrage” of the “mob”? Yes the Fediverse can be drama-prone but most of the fanning of the flames seems to be coming from the people complaining about Fedi users genuine criticisms of the mods/admins on Fosstodon

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to remove mod privileges for these kinds of views if you’re trying to run an inclusive space. There’s supported suspicion that they’ve used their mod powers to censor information on minorities already, just because they haven’t done it yet on this platform doesn’t mean you let them lie in wait to do it. Makes me worry that Fosstodon admins don’t see any issues keeping someone like that around

Would this get the same kind of backlash had the mod been kicked out for tankie views?

I’m sure they’re less interested about buying Chrome than they are about buying Chrome’s market share

As a Forza Horizon fan my curiosity is piqued. I like being able to shift vibes from an intense race to just cruising around the landscape, and Mario Kart is a very different style of racing so it’d be a very different experience

MTG JP is doing a special summer promotion with The Wanderer and they want to advertise it. Japan is a huge market for CCGs but it’s also very competitive so they get special promotional stuff like this pretty often

Except they haven’t actually backed that up with a way for you to jump servers. If the central Bsky server goes down, it takes the network with it. Until they actually let other people host, it’s just meaningless posturing. Without a way for people to leave their network you are as captive there as you are on Twitter

I feel like the opposite, while Opal was the straw that broke the camel’s back here, there are a lot of less powerful decks that heavily depend on it (Affinity, Asmo Food, Lantern Control, Hardened Scales, Hammer Time) whereas Breach is really only necessary in Breach combo decks. It occasionally gets used in Prowess or Ruby Storm but more as a flex card. It’s also just a busted card banned in several places anyways, it’s not like it’s a fair card taking the fall for something else.

I feel like it worthwhile to at least see if Opal can stay unbanned without Breach in the format, and if it continues to be a problem hit it on the next list

This deck isn’t living past March 31. The question is, what’s going, Breach or Opal?

Dragons get a new typal enchantment based on a popular Zombie one

I can see a Necroduality for Dragons, but given that this is Dragonstorm I feel like a Dragon version of Rooftop Storm is even more likely

It’s ridiculous they were asking for $30m to do something that ActivityPub already does. Wasted money that could have gone anywhere else

I tried to fit it into a deck but couldn’t get it to work the way I wanted it to. Glad it’s found a home, it’s a cool card

I think the shared deck has its advantages of reducing the amount of space to carry decks for two players and also guaranteeing that both players have a deck with an equal power level

Green Devotion is scary, but I feel like it depends a lot on the matchup. Can it really win before Copycat goes infinite? Can it win through countless fog effects?

Nope! One great thing about CCGs is that there’s a lot to enjoy without ever having to dip a toe into the gameplay

I think there’s a few other issues with server selection

1. Longevity. How do you know that the server you are on will be there in 1, 5 or even 10 years? For larger servers like Mastodon.social you have a general idea that it will last as long as Masto itself, but others have very little guarantees on if you’ll log in and find your entire feed gone. It only takes

2. That brings me to my next point: migration is currently inadequate. Migrating accounts only redirects your following/followers lists and some account settings. All of the posts, reposts and content uploaded are left on the old server and potentially wiped out if it’s shut down. Professionals or anyone who wants a lasting online profile need to stick to big instances because they risk losing everything if their server can’t continue. I also feel like there should also be an emergency “export all” button the admins can press, so the server will email all users a copy of their data in case of shutdown. That way users who can’t export their data manually before the end date will have a copy of it. And this still doesn’t solve the issue of small servers shutting down out of nowhere and wiping out every user’s profile on there. If that happens to an average user they’re probably just going quit Masto outright

3. Defederation is a good idea to keep bad servers isolated from the community and let servers dictate how open they want to be. But there’s not a lot of indication of what servers have blocked/restricted the one you’re signing up for, other than going to another server and seeing if the admins have manually typed up a list of that they blocked/restricted. There’s also not a great way to see if the server you’re looking at is read-only and any posts you make aren’t being seen by users on the other server. Or that you’re looking at a server that has since defederated and will no longer update posts. Also (afaik, there’s not a ton of good explanations) but if you’re newly connecting to a server it will only federate new posts going forward and not previous posts. Which again messes things up for people who want to use it as a consistent timeline. Dropping users into random small/medium servers risks preventing them from seeing their friends posts or cutting them off from their friends entirely

4. You mention data privacy as a risk of large servers, but how is it any better on small servers? You have no idea if the user you’re handing your data over to is trustworthy or reliable or that the server they manage is secured. And how do you know that a large company won’t come in and offer them money to sell the server, and suddenly all your data is in the hands of spammers? And direct posts are not private. Plenty of people on Twt used their real names/emails/pictures. It’s not going to be viable to have every user create a burner email and never reveal any info, even in private messages without them deciding it’s not worth it. Alternatively, they have to verify the trustworthiness of every admin on a potential server, despite them likely only having a username and posts to work off of

I think there are bigger issues than “just choose a server, they’re all like email” that causes people to gravitate towards larger platforms. It’s not just connectivity and uptime, there are logistical issues that will impact users if Masto gains more mainstream adoption. I haven’t even touched on the threat of bad actors and spam which I don’t feel like the network is ready for yet

I’ve seen a few Orzhov Aristocrat builds that use the little max speed weenies online but don’t know if those decks have the strength to keep up with the meta

Decks:

• 3 Domain Overlord
• 1 Gruul Aggro
• 1 Gruul Mice
• 1 Mono-Red Aggro
• 1 Jeskai Oculus
• 1 Golgari Graveyard

Oh you better believe that’s a paddlin’

Siege Rhino is back, but slightly smaller this go around. Think it’ll still be the scourge of Standard or does it not hold up today?

That would eliminate being able to block with vehicles though. I think limiting it to the combat step would at least reduce the amount it occurs

I always enjoy their behind the scenes articles. Magic is such a huge, complicated game that changes all the time so it’s interesting seeing how they have to build the software around that