Gregory's Server
@jsit @jaz @jerry @jztusk @Crell
> "Because I am not among a group that is a frequent target of abuse, I have the privilege of enjoying the benefits of being on an “open” instance without having to worry about the drawbacks."
But here's the flip side of that, one of the main things that makes people a bit squeamish about this: because you're not a member of a marginalized group, you haven't been on a server that has been brigaded with false reports trying to get the mainstream to block you, and then suddenly find a bunch of other marginalized groups' servers have blocked you without checking up on those reports. This is one of the things we keep seeing between queer fedi and black fedi.
What's to stop a member of one group, bigoted towards another, from getting in here and keeping servers that should be on the list off of it?
It then becomes a question of who will bell the cat: who will take on the responsibility, and thus open themselves up to abuse, of maintaining this?
@jsit @jaz @jerry @jztusk @Crell
And this post here also summarizes the big problems we've seen with FediBlock and The Bad Space.
We have people posting marginalized group instances on FediBlock, misrepresenting or exaggerating or even fabricating issues with those instances, and then suddenly finding that like 10% of the network has blocked them because no one is vetting these posts. I recently even appeared on there for attempting to vet some of those posts.
Meanwhile, every issue that The Bad Space has has basically turned into a timeline nightmare for its creators. Yeah, TBS has a problem with the number of instances it calls out for "racism" that no one else can find, and we could always make the argument that they could respond differently, but some people go absolutely insane about the people running it.
With a whitelist it would be even worse, because simply not including a server is doing a very real harm to its connections, and someone is going to answer for that.
@jsit @jaz @jerry @jztusk @Crell
And this post here also summarizes the big problems we've seen with FediBlock and The Bad Space.
We have people posting marginalized group instances on FediBlock, misrepresenting or exaggerating or even fabricating issues with those instances, and then suddenly finding that like 10% of the network has blocked them because no one is vetting these posts. I recently even appeared on there for attempting to vet some of those posts.