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Linus' thread: (CW: bigotry and racism in the comments) https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm (you need to scroll down, i can't seem to link to the comment in the screenshot)

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[–] Peter1986C@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Otoh, his Akkoma instance should block poa.st. It is Noble of him to argue, but probably it won't accomplish much when he takes bait.

[–] mFcGlNBcfr@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

holy crap, I didn't realise he was responding to a poa.st user.

Definitely should've been defederated from poa.st by now...

[–] orclev@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For someone out of the loop, what's the deal with poa.st? I followed the link and it says its for shitposters which... doesn't sound good... but could mean a few different things.

[–] mFcGlNBcfr@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine a bunch of wannabe 4channers got their own mastodon instance.

That’s poa.st

[–] Peter1986C@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Although to be technically correct, they use Soapbox instead of Mastodon.