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mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev (dotart.blog)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6853479

mastodon.art has decided to suspend firefish.social from their instance due to issues with its administrator. The administrator of firefish.social was found to be boosting posts from a known harasser on another instance. mastodon.art takes a firm stance against racism and suspending full instances in these situations is part of their policy as a safe space. The known harasser has a history of using slurs, harassment, and editing screenshots to spread misinformation. However, the administrator of firefish.social has now forged a screenshot to paint mastodon.art in a negative light.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought the whole based/cringe thing was just zoomer slang?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Based started on 4chan. People stole memes from 4chan, where it spread and became Zoomer slang.

Cringe I think has a similar but slightly different etymology; I don't know if it necessarily came from 4chan or if it came from Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it started with Lil B "Thank You Based God".

Lil B was an underground rapper with... varying levels of quality (at least at the time). His thing was calling himself "Based God" as people were calling him "based" as a negative (presumably to mean he was dumb), but thanks to his music and understanding internet culture and turning it in his favour, he managed to turn "based" from something that was negative to a positive.

Then 4chan got ahold of it for Donald Trump's election and that word has never recovered.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go figure. 4chan was pretty based 10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

4chan was never based.