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Forwarded from Syndiegram (JollyJenkins)

Let's talk about the hilariously-spectacular failure that is the wave of rightoid mass-reportings, tl;dr at the end. This is a great example of an action/operation done to disrupt something that, in the end, actually makes it stronger. Or perhaps more precisely, how not to troll. But they didn't simply fail to accomplish their goals, their sperg-out of an operation backfired and did to them exactly what they were trying to do to leftgram.

Crunched history for those not in the know: RUST-affiliated channels and multiple other communist, anarchist and similar communities were auto-purged from Telegram after a wave of mass-reportings orchestrated by dozens of rightoid channels. In the end, nine out of ten of these communities were reinstated after review by volunteer Telegram staff.

In the beginning, their calls for mass-reportings and subsequent list of report targets were spread far and wide among their circles. The first channels to be removed were RUST-affiliated communities. Admittedly, there was some amount of panic, but it didn't last long after the channels reinstated one-by-one.

Now at first this may simply seem to most to be a mere annoyance, but don't be so near-sighted. After the incident, many major channels are establishing backup spaces on other platforms, like the Matrix network. The imperfection and insecurities of Telegram were shoved in our faces without warning. We all knew we'd have to deal with it eventually but now we know that the danger of Telegram censorship, accidental or otherwise, is real. Long story short, we cannot afford to put all our eggs in one basket. Telegram's rightoids brought this fact very close to home without actually causing damage.

Now here's the funny part. Apparently, Telegram decided that it was time to cycle through basically every channel with more than one report for violent content after their wave of reports came in. Most of us know how to not fedpost 24/7 like a bunch of brainlets, but you all know how spicy rightoids get. We were smart, thought ahead and got a get out of jail free card, but many of them made no reservations to posting all manner of unsavory content for months on end. They were dumb and dozens of their channels got the chopping block for having a constant hard-on for violence.

Too long, didn't read:
Hundreds of leftygram communities were targeted for mass-reports as orchestrated by the greater rightoid community; dozens of our channels auto-purged from a sudden flood of reports; large majority of our channels reinstated after review by volunteer Telegram staff; Telegram decides to clean house and cycles through all communities with a history of reports for violent content; dozens or hundreds of assorted rightoid communities purged, probably won't even get half of them reinstated; the experience shoved in our collective face the fact that Telegram isn't an eternal safe haven and now many communist, anarchist, etc. communities are establishing auxiliary/back-up presences on other platforms, such as Matrix.
Leftygram: dozens of channels temporarily disrupted, many communities now working on securing presence elsewhere online.
Rightoids: indeterminate amount (at least dozens, possibly hundreds) of communities permanently removed from Telegram (and remember, it was their own operation that did this).

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