Two Weeks Later: The Marathon

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Alright! It’s been about two weeks since a random person from a year ago decided to slap some defamation up on their account over at todon.nl, where their admin decided rules don’t matter, actually. And a few days since a “pizza.enby.city” admin decided to mirror that post, but make even wilder claims based on, well, that admin also being a huge transmisogynist and an aspirant of 2014-era GamerGate beliefs. But that’s not what matters. Those people don’t matter, and they never will.

I moved to my new mastodon instance in order to pull some features that just aren’t available on GoToSocial, and because one of these dorks were linking directly to my GoToSocial account, and by moving, that screwed with their narrative slightly (they’ve been stalking my new Mastodon account, anyway).

But, in-between all of this, I found out that some of the constant brand new accounts spamming my notifications, are likely from some sociopathic dude named “dav1d” or a group of people who rally around the name “dav1d.” Whoever, or whatever they are, are some 4chan-brained harassers that are the kind of weirdo/scum that latch onto drama and try to stir it up, for funsies. Because having healthy hobbies is too hard.

Never-the-less, I now use a script exclusive to my Mastodon instance that bans newly created remote accounts seconds after they interact with anyone on my instance.

This should be a feature on all fedi software. New accounts don’t need the ability to speak to strangers until they’ve: Been around for a week, or have taken the time to fill out their profile and post their own content or words. And I’m 100% serious. If you’re reading this and going, “Hey that sounds like a good feature!” Well, why isn’t it?

In the midst of all of this though, I was contacted by the creator of Wafrn, Gabboman, and he was explaining this “dav1d” stuff to me, and we were kind of, sort of, talking about the past a bit. My accusations of app.wafrn.net being a transmisogynist server that mirrors the transmisogyny of Tumblr. How, when I made those words public, someone, or a large group of people, decided to spam his repo with extremely harmful messages, up to and including suggestions of ending one’s life. I didn’t know about this. I had no idea this happened. Listen: hardly anyone actually talks to me. I have not had long in-depth conversations about anything, with anyone, in a long time. I may as well be alone, most of the time. This was not me. This may have been “dav1d,” but I definitely did not sign off on it.

So, just to be clear: I apologized to Gabboman, partially because my reaction may have been a little too knee-jerky last year, but also because I don’t give anyone permission to act upon my words in this way. I don’t have a personal internet army, and if this was you, or if you were part of this, this is why nobody can have nice things. And I hope you get caught, because that’s bullshit.

I was upset with a decision that looked, to me, like a real problem with transmisogyny, and, apparently, some saw this as an opportunity for attack, and to mislead, to misinform, and to harm others. That was not my goal, and I am deeply sorry that this happened to anyone involved with the flagship Wafrn instance, up to and including, and especially its creator.

I reject this behavior. I think everyone has the right to be critical, or to call attention to what they find to be harmful, and the accused parties have every right to respond! Just like I’ve responded to these MRA wannabes who’ve been stalking my accounts for the past two weeks to let them know that transmisandry isn’t real, and abusing hashtag blocking mechanisms on the Fediverse in an attempt to silence someone makes them look like terrible, evil people, and I have zero qualms taking legal steps to shut them down. That they are, in fact, the people who should suffer global blocking across the entire network, and be kicked out of the Fediverse.

But, anyway, what you don’t have the right to do is cause people psychological and physical harm. This army of people who responded to my posts about Wafrn didn’t have a right to do what they did. And these people who’ve been targeting me for two whole weeks now, don’t have a right to go as far as they have.

I don’t care if random people block me, and get mad about me. But if you try and spread misinformation, and try to have my entire last remaining support network removed, hindered, or destroyed, I will come for you. And you’ll deserve it.

That out of the way, and in light of all of this, I decided to launch my own Wafrn instance alongside my Mastodon instance. So, now I have two places where obsessed weirdos can stalk my accounts! Haha!

I also migrated my Mastodon server to a place outside of the United States, in the same territory where my new Wafrn instance is now hosted. I’ve also migrated this website, and some other small projects I have sitting on servers, to EU servers in different locations, rather than American servers.

At the end of the day, if the United States becomes a place where speech, at all, is entirely prohibited, my online activity will be outside of that jurisdiction.

If you’d like to join either server, the Mastodon instance, or the Wafrn instance, feel free to apply for an account. Supply a reason why you want to join, and where you’re coming from, and I’ll take a look at your application in order to be part of these servers. Just make sure you’re clear about your intentions and it’s not hard for me to decide if you’re genuine or not. Both servers have the same instance blocklist, the Mastodon server has a specialized script that auto-bans anyone who tries to interact with you from brand new accounts, and the Wafrn instance has an optional, direct connection to Bluesky via my new PDS.

Thanks for reading.