 "elon destroyed twitter", come to fedi "reddit CEO sold out reddit communities", come to fedi "tumblr CEO is heading transphobic harassment campaign", come to fedi idk man i just feel like shit like this is gonna keep happening. and shit will go down on fedi too. difference is on fedi you can move when some little tyrant gets their head too far stuck up their own ass 62 comments
 @vozercozer @eniko CEO started going on a transphobic rant and stuff, I don't have the images about it rn but they've been posted a lot on Twitter as well as on r/CuratedTumblr @vozercozer Oh yeah, and the CEO also threatened to call the cops on her. Like, it's hard to properly convey just how ridiculous the situation is and just how petty the CEO is being.  @Owlor @vozercozer not just the cops, the FBI, over her basically saying "I hope a car covered in hammers explodes and the hammers hit you repeatedly" Like, genuinely cartoony type of stuff @vozercozer @eniko prolific trans user on their 4th or 5th account called out Tumblr's CEO and staff for several systematic failings such as auto deleting user accounts when they hit a certain threshold of reports against them, failing to respond to cries of help against coordinated hate brigades, doxing, character assassination, and death threats. Tumblr's CEO responded by banning their new account and made a whining "I'm the real victim here" ama post when rightfully called out on it.  @eniko Exactly. The #fediverse isn't fire-proof; it's just that we have a better sprinkler system, because it's not all connected to a single hydrant controlled by a narcissistic billionaire. @david_megginson @eniko the advantages is that even if "random things" happen on the fedi, you can still answer "come to fedi" (just another instance, or block the other instance if that's in your power, etc.) @minirop @david_megginson @eniko You can almost always block entire instances for yourself, regardless of what your instance admin does. Makes life a lot more pleasant.   @eniko I almost moved to Tumblr when I got banned from Twitter, I'm glad I came here instead  if youre gonna yell at someone who mentioned me in this thread can you please at least remove my @ thank you if you want to reply to this with some flavor of "but there's <bad thing> on fedi" then please refer to "shit will go down on fedi too" from my original post yeah, there's bad stuff on fedi. but it's not the people who own fedi imposing the bad stuff on everyone else on fedi, cause nobody owns fedi. come on. you're already on here, you should know this stuff by now  @eniko @eniko Hey, I wrote almost exactly this earlier. Moving accounts and staying on the network is so unbelievably useful. Everyone who followed you before can continue to do so without needing to create an account on yet another centralized social site. They stay where they're happy, and still get to follow you at your new location.  @eniko it doesn't solve all problems but fedi being not-for-profit does make it quite different from these other places and their problems  or block, mute and report them or their server, or if necessary, move. They can never dominate unless everyone buys into it. which is exactly the point. democracy and freedom of movement is beautiful, man :ablobdj: :abunhdhappyhop: :ablobcatreachreverse:  @eniko at this point you could scientifically describe the process by which a company is founded, becomes successful, is milked for every penny and collapses @starsider i guess that's what's considered a properly functional economy is waves of medium sized businesses being created and imploding over and over while some tiny number of titans persist for decades? i don't know i'm clearly not an economist :)   Yes, and... I know it happens. I know it's on the rise. Thankfully, it's been practically invisible on my instance due to excellent administration. I think most instances stand by their enforcement codes. They don't want bad stuff posted, because that makes their server a bannable "Nazi Bar", ruining its reputation, one that they paid good money for. That being said - I just had to block the moron above, so "gentle transphobia" and "gentle Naziism" are usually not against codes of conduct. "Hey I was just asking questions" guys be damned. Sad we did we close down all the self hosted forums we had,  @eniko I think the bigger problem is the bad platforms trying to rebrand themselves here. Too many people still fall for the nice guy act even after being burned. @eniko I wish moving was much easier though, Masto still correlates the user to the account, i.e. the server "owns you". Would be nice if the identity would be key based (like say in git).  @helge@mastodon.social All the other fedi server software allow you to move all your posts in addition to all your followers. You can even move all your posts and followers from a mastodon instance to an Akkoma or Sharkey instance. It's just mastodon that makes it hard to move. @eniko this reminds me that I need to make a custom website and kill Tumblr. I have a domain but haven't started yet...  @eniko yes I think you put your finger right on it. We have to assume it will happen because human nature. What we can do is design and build better systems for managing it when it does happen. Shit's already going down in the Fediverse. But some servers have better moderators than others.  On the other hand heβs not getting a cent from me for the many sites I host myself and runβ¦ @lisamelton @eniko diverse range of people doing good work at WP like Josepha Haden. Will be interested to see the outcome of this @lisamelton she does the WP Insider podcast and certainly doesnβt come across as such   @eniko@peoplemaking.games I ended up going more than a bit back to Tumblr because if folks fleeing Twitter to go there, but I had already been trying to spend more time here even then. It's gonna hurt to lose my contacts again as they pick Cohost or Bluesky and I just give up on following them there. |
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@eniko wait wtfs going on with tumblr?