Fedia Discussions

As mod of the Privacy mag I got an alert for this “thread”:

https://fedia.io/m/privacy/p/1332654/Hey-what-s-your-password-Nice-try-My-password-is-Tuta-MailDoesntLetThatHappen

I don’t quite have a handle on k/mbin’s relationship with microblogs. Seems bizarre that (IIUC) someone somewhere in the fedi used a privacy hashtag, which was then enough for the status to appear in the privacy mag microblog timeline, which then leads to a mod having power over it.

What does it even mean to moderate that? I guess the concrete question is, if I press the “reject” button, what happens? Does that remove a copy of a microblog status that is cached on fedia.io? If yes, isn’t it strange that a mod has the power to cancel a microblog that happens to use a hashtag that incidentally matches the name of a mag that the mod controls? Or does it just remove the content specifically from the privacy microblog timeline, and not the timelines of other hashtags used in the same status (e.g. security)?