»#Meta Is #Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor #Pixelfed.« https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/?eicker.news #tech #media

»#WordPress escalated its conflict with #WPEngine by #blocking the latter's servers from accessing #WordPressorg resources – and therefore from potentially vital #softwareupdates.« https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/26/wordpressorg_denies_service_to_wp/?eicker.news #tech #media

»#Websites are #Blocking the Wrong #AIScrapers (Because #AICompanies Keep Making New Ones): Hundreds of sites have put old #Anthropic #scrapers on their blocklist, while leaving a new one unblocked.« https://www.404media.co/websites-are-blocking-the-wrong-ai-scrapers-because-ai-companies-keep-making-new-ones/?eicker.news #tech #media

Here's something everyone needs to understand: I make the rules regarding how others are permitted to interact with me.

If you come at me out of nowhere raging at me, that conversation is going to end immediately. I honestly don't care why you're mad. It doesn't matter. And I don't care if you're progressive, liberal, conservative, or fascist. That conversation is not happening.

This holds especially true if you're raging at me for nothing other than an accident of my birth. I didn't pick my ancestry. I didn't select my sexual orientation. They are what they are, and if that makes you angry, well too bad.

You're entitled to your opinions of course. But you are not entitled to interact with me.

Again, I decide who gets to interact with me and how that interaction is permitted to commence. Chances are if you're able to behave like a nominally civilized human being we'll be fine. If you can't, then it's going to be a very short conversation punctuated by the block button.

What does the last 40 years of mess making say about us now we have reached #climatechaos

We have the evil people in "power" then we have the activism pushing change challenge over this, then we have the liberal majority in the middle siding with the #mainstreaming against this pushing.

#OMN What I have been doing is shifting the change challenge to the liberals in the middle, it's interesting the #XR has taken this path the last few years.

These liberals are the #blocking we need to overcome to change the challenge of the evil people.

eicker.news #technews »#Twitter has started #blocking #unregisteredusers: If you want to browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web, then you need to be signed in to a Twitter account.« https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779764/twitter-blocks-unregistered-users-account-tweets

eicker.news #technews »#Twitter #powerusers begin #campaign to '#BlocktheBlue' paid checkmarks: After #ElonMusk removed legacy verified users' checkmarks, Twitter's biggest users are #blocking everyone #whopays.« https://mashable.com/article/block-the-blue-twitter-campaign-dril

When #blocking #trolls there is an option to forward your report to the #admin at the originating server.
However, it is the admin at such servers who in some cases is the ring leader.

You can check that prior to clicking the box, if you know how.
If not, you are likely simply providing a dopamine rush to the source of the irritant.

#admins should post a warning but with all the traffic coming over they won't have time.

My article on #proactiveblocking
https://medium.com/@theghostoftomjoad/how-to-block-server-domains-in-mastodon-899b24f8fb6e

Plz Boost!