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A Confession of an Inauthentic Human:

A Story of One X (Formerly Twitter) Suspension

Part 1 https://aillia.substack.com/p/a-confession-of-an-inauthentic-human

Part 2 https://aillia.substack.com/p/a-confession-of-an-inauthentic-human-0ac

I wrote this long 2-part letter because I owe it, big time, to the people who rallied for me, who believed it couldn’t be my fault❤️

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chaser 2mo ago 💬 2

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 :)

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Soul Reaver 2mo ago 💬 1

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

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chaser 2mo ago 💬 2

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).

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Soul Reaver 2mo ago

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

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AilliA 2mo ago 💬 1

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 :))

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chaser 2mo ago 💬 1

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...

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AilliA 2mo ago 💬 1

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 :)

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chaser 2mo ago

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 ;)