Gregory's Server@pearlbear thanks so much for this. One thing I've noticed is that a lot of people think that the fragmentary nature of the fediverse's servers absolves the superstructure of responsibility. People resort to responding to posts about racism with "just block the server" and "that's the great thing about mastodon, you can choose where to go" which is a bit like telling someone to get their coffee at a less racist cafe. I think people not doing that would make for a promising start.
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 @rustyniall @pearlbear racism shouldn’t exist, but the wording here seems to call for some sort of central mechanism to allow the “superstructure” to purge itself of racism Mastodon draws on a legacy of conflict between open communities and corporate control, and thinking about decentralised infrastructure. It’s not clear there’s a better way to purge racists in a decentralised way than what Mastodon implements, but I’d be interested if there was. @daskeit @pearlbear I wasn't calling for a central mechanism, I was calling for people, especially white people, to be more thoughtful in how they respond to POC when they speak about racism here. @pearlbear @rustyniall that’s fair, my bad! There’s a lot going on with the Twitter exodus so I’m a bit primed to see different cultural norms clashing |
@rustyniall @pearlbear One problem i noted, is that many (specially smaller) servers aren't really able (even if they are willing) to moderate their instances properly, aside from just blocking instances. My own fear is, that some people will game this system by poisoning servers with bad faith actors, so that we block each other into isolation.
I'm curious if we're able to to set and keep up a healthy discussion and moderation culture between all instances, while also trying out best to keep using CWs for its original purpuse, instead of using them to hide the important questions we have to ask ourselves from time to time.
@rustyniall @pearlbear One problem i noted, is that many (specially smaller) servers aren't really able (even if they are willing) to moderate their instances properly, aside from just blocking instances. My own fear is, that some people will game this system by poisoning servers with bad faith actors, so that we block each other into isolation.