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that's one wild adventure and retribution, all because of a few dozen copy-paste tweets (I remember, it was 30-40 tops)... whew. I'm sorry you had to go through all this. not to strengthen the Monero Martyr meme (lol, you gave me a visual idea... Joan of XMaRc :)), but I'm still not sure it's your fault. it could be that you just found something that fits the bill. really, can this scale of activity result in a *full ban* (especially for a good-standing, Premium-paying account like yours)? there should be warnings and rate limits way before a user gets near the danger zone. see my now-daily Twitter experience after I dared to mention Substack once: even then, you should only get a warning and some cool-down period. your treatment was as proportionate as burning someone at the stake for jaywalking :)

The significant workforce reductions at X heavily impacted the Trust and Safety (T&S) teams responsible for content moderation. With a reduction in human moderation staff, the platform has become more reliant on automated systems. The layoffs changed manual reviews from a core part of the moderation process to a barely functional system reserved for rare exceptions. For the average user, the appeals process is now an automated loop that is difficult or impossible to escalate to a human. Consequently, it's now harder than ever to have a nuanced manual review and revert suspensions. Permissioned social media is a broken construct that'll always be susceptible to this BS. That's why we #Nostr #rawyakihonne

Yeah, it was actually more than that, I ended up deleting a bunch afterward. So embarrassing... TBH, I suspect that tweet was just one epic misstep from the "rope dancer" that finally pushed things into reportable territory. There's no shortage of potential reporters gunning for AilliA's account on twitter, like the scammers she's labelled as such on XmrBazaar. For example, this guy even advertised social media ban services: https://themeritocrat.substack.com/p/not-your-keys-not-yours-period. And I labeled him as a scammer on bazaar ~ 1.5 months ago... well, at least it took them a while to get me... I've also heard whispers of other reasons ppl might want to hit back with revenge reports on twitter: AilliA isn't exactly a saint, as you know... ;)) So yeah, it turns out trying your best to be a "good human" online can rile people up even more than just being an outright asshole or scammer. Clearly a flawed survival strategy in the wild west of the internet :))

Very magnanimous but I still don't think it's your fault. You posted a link to news you felt was important (the DNA mapping of babies by the state). Then you thought X bots might not like that so you deleted them. All looks authentically human to me. Sounds to me that X is at fault for not understanding humans very well, or giving a more human touch to their Help Center. All the same, you're better off without mainstream platforms. They don't offer you freedom, only highly conditional access which, as you saw, they can snatch from you at any moment, for the most bullshit of reasons (sorry to disagree with you but I still find their reasons to be bullshit). Those humans you spoke to make as well be bots anyway, because they adhere to guidelines and give boilerplate messages like the one about being unable to help further. On freedom tech like Nostr, you don't have to justify yourself to bots or staff.

As I mentioned earlier, I think it was just the last straw piled on top of some potential revenge reporting against Aillia's account + that Turnstile glitch that blocked me from logging in right when it got initially flagged. That led to multiple failed login attempts, which probably didn't help my case too... But I really appreciate the vote of confidence, it means a lot! :) and ofc you're right about the lack of human touch on these platforms. It's ironic how they're supposed to connect us but end up feeling so robotic and unforgiving. Nostr seems like a breath of fresh air without all the arbitrary gatekeeping :) nostr:nevent1qy0hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwv3jhyettwfhhxuewd4jj7qg0waehxw309aqxummn9ekx7mp0qyt8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnyv96xztngv96hxtcqyrzpq8htv33rgmx8q6fc8sgltc0rn94350nsyvejwlavcglljg0l23mc3gh

even if it was more, don't be embarrassed—you were just emotionally triggered, then later came to see it, and wanted to correct it. that's just... human, and it's rather that the algorithm isn't in tune with human behavior. BTW, ancient instincts are very healthy ;) not being a saint? hmm, I have no idea what you're talking about, at all ;)) I did suspect that those people would try to strike back at you, but not that they would be successful. so yeah, maybe it was a combination of factors. the way I see, it's rather that large centralized platforms can create weird incentives... plus assholes and scammers hurt everyone, so the damage is dispersed. on the other hand, a "good human" is a danger only to the asshole minority, who are quite good at self-preservation and teaming up against threats...

sounds right. I don't think Twitter ever had sufficient human moderation staff, and excessive automated bans and the lack of "due process" has always been an issue. maybe it got worse since Elon took leadership. yes, this is one of the main reasons we should move to permissionless platforms, and Nostr is very promising. as for Yakihonne, I tried it, but had to give up (I kept getting 99+ ghost notifications).

They keep releasing updates, it seems fine now, just fixed a couple of problems yesterday.

lol, it's basic probability: the more games you're playing (simultaneously!), the higher the chance to lose at least once ;) My world keeps trying to prove that they are not a minority... + cats are not particularly good at teaming up too :)

you're right, it's compound risk. maybe, in a way, they're not a minority... deep down it's there in most people, way easy to trigger. but all we need is a few nifty, dedicated cats to outsmart them ;)

Choose your fighter: https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr