If you post content by "trusted sources" like the New York Times, Eunomia will assign you a high trustworthiness score. This is without regard to how many Iraqis the NYT got killed by spreading fake news that lead up to and justified Iraq War 2.
Don't mistake Establishment-approved for "trustworthy"
Freezepeach.xyz is shutting down forever. Effective: soon-ish.
I know this goes against what I said, however circumstances changed.
* The SPC Pleroma migration caused several problems. Problems I don't have the energy to fix for future migrations. Federation is hard, kids, respect people like Lain, Kaniini, Mmn, and Gargron.
* The site accumulated even more problems than I had anticipated having to deal with.
I am very sorry to the handful of people left semi-regularly using the site.
If you have an account on Freezepeach, even a dormant one, and want either an archive of your posts, or your follower list in a format you can import into Pleroma or Mastodon, please contact me at moonman@shitposter.club.
There has been a request to convert the site to a static format. This may happen.
@sim@thatbrickster You're not out of the loop, I was forced to announce it right now. Please see this message: <a href="https://freezepeach.xyz/notice/13063005">https://freezepeach.xyz/notice/13063005</a>
SPC announcement: seriousposter.club is down until I get the domain back and fix the DNS. Sorry that I am an idiot and that my email address gets thousands of spam emails a day.
Another decision that made GS the bad guy was the initial resistance to separating out local from federated timelines, which led to a shitload of mastodon people thinking they were being invaded by GS people. We literally could not get out of Mastodon people's faces if we wanted to, because of Mastodon's design. Not seeing the boundaries between servers didn't change the fact that some people were just assholes, but at least separating them reduced perceived turf wars. The NIMBY effect was in part because of this too.
The last thing I'll mention is that the "new" GS servers when they showed up got into conflict with most of the existing GS servers. Those servers banned people, silenced and sandboxed users on remote instances. Once those boundaries were set, relations between the servers cooled down into a live and let live attitude. Many Mastodon servers have been far more aggressive, engaging in organized slander campaigns against servers and individuals.
This note is in response to Trev's note, which I mostly agree with and consider my perception of events above supplementary to.