Curator

We've silenced mstdn.party after some moderation concerns, and it becoming apparent that they federate with some very toxic instances and their users are already getting harassed by people on those instances.

If you have friends on mstdn.party, especially if they belong to marginalised groups, encourage them to move to an instance that prioritises their online safety, and/or to reach out to the admin for assurance that their safety is a priority and that instances known for harassment will be blocked.

What this means for .art users:

Accounts on mstdn.party that you already follow, and who follow you, will be unaffected. Nothing will change, you'll keep seeing their content as usual.

If a user from mstdn.party follows you, you'll get a follow request that you'll need to approve.

As with all of our instance-wide actions, the onus is not on us to not block problematic/toxic instances – it's on those instances to do better. We revisit all of our instance-wide silences and suspends regularly to re-evaluate; if the situation improves, we undo domain blocks, and if the situation on an instance we've silenced deteriorates such that it risks the safety of our .art users (i.e. toxic users on the silenced instance aren't being moderated), we move from a silence to a full domain block.

If you have questions, please @ Curator.

This announcement is only relevant to users on mastodon.art.