mekka okereke :verified: mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

@evan @markallerton @ks

Years from now, someone is going to cry about "Automaticc or Flickr used 'embrace and extend' to bully us! This always happens! They did this to us!"

But the reality is going to be that "At a time when millions of users were desperate for something, anything, other than Twitter... Automaticc and Flickr took the guesswork out of signing up for an Activity Pub based service that would protect you from Nazis. Noone else did."

mekka okereke :verified: mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

@evan @markallerton @ks

The analogy that several Black users have said, is "Mastodon is the digital equivalent of fleeing 'regular' racism in the deep South, just to experience 'racism doesn't happen here!' racism in Boston." 🙂🙃

Mastodon has more cultural norms around not talking about racist abuse, than around preventing it from happening. I don't know how to convince y'all that this is bad.

So yeah, this creates an opening for centralizers.

mekka okereke :verified: mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

@evan @markallerton @ks It's ironic and sad that we're seeing the biggest spikes in fediverse adoption in history precisely because users are fleeing a centralized network that is becoming less safe... and yet we still don't acknowledge that for social networks, safety is the P0 feature.

Yes, the fediverse is safer for some users than centralized social networks, and I'm truly happy for them. But for other users, it is much less safe.

mekka okereke :verified: mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

@evan @markallerton @ks

There's increasing evidence that good moderation just doesn't scale well. Having a mod to user ratio of under 1 to 1000 seems ideal. There's all the opportunity for decentralized social to be safer than centralized. And we're squandering it.

By funneling marginalized users to big instances like mastodon.cloud and mastodon.social, letting them experience horrible abuse, and then blocking them for not using CW when they ask for help.

mekka okereke :verified: mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

@evan @markallerton @ks

Personally I care a lot more about user safety than decentralization. I care about decentralization as it pertains to user safety, product innovation, and inclusion. Which is why for the day job, I choose jobs where I can make sure that small companies compete and win against the big company I'm at. This creates a healthier world, and works better for everyone.

But I don't value decentralization for decentralization's sake.

mekka okereke :verified: mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

@evan @markallerton @ks

The best thing to do to "counter" this coming centralization is super easy to do, but from my short time observing here, it won't happen:

1. There should be stricter criteria for an instance being listed on "join Mastodon." Insufficient moderation gets you de-listed. Handle cynical false reports.

2. It should be easier for a new admin to just check a box and opt-in to a whitelisted federation that excludes the worst instances.

mekka okereke :verified: mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

@evan @markallerton @ks

It's entirely possible for decentralized instances to provide safety, but most don't/won't. I'm super happy with hachyderm.io for example. ♥️👍🏿

But a larger company is going to integrate with the fediverse, and fulfill the most basic user feature request: "As a user of your product, I would like to know that signing up will not expose me to death threats from nazis" 🤷🏿‍♂️

Then more new users are going to flow there.

mekka okereke :verified: mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

@evan @markallerton @ks

As a Black person, simply signing up for a Mastodon account can expose you to vile racist slurs and threats of violence. Most Mastodon users are one popular toot away from discovering that their instance mods are either unwilling or completely unprepared to deal with this.

Because a centralized whitelist was abused in a cynical attack years ago, the fediverse kinda gave up on that idea, and has been very resistant to it ever since.

mekka okereke :verified: mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

@evan @markallerton @ks

I do agree that centralization is coming to the fediverse, but not for any of the reasons that most people on here think. That centralization is coming for the exact same reasons that centralization came to email, and it's a reason that many folks that would like things to stay decentralised keep ignoring.

And that is user safety.

A lot of Mastodon fans keep pretending that Mastodon is inclusive. It's not. But it could be.

ふぇのまー(5700G) Phenomer@social.mikutter.hachune.net

ネコチャンモチーフのポケモン悪タイプだらけだし、ネコチャンは悪い生き物だというゲーフリの強い意志を感じる

藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii taiyo@ostatus.taiyolab.com

リベラル活動家を通報するイベントなんてやってるのか……いままでTwitterは無視してたようだけど、さて今年はどうなるか。

https://hostux.social/@defcon201/109405255241728879

高見知英 TakamiChie@mstdn.jp

検索センスって、実際その分野の知識とのかけ算だよなあ、検索センスが高くても未知の分野だとそもそもワードが紡げない。検索できるのは自分にある程度知識がある分野だけ。
いくら検索ができる時代でも、基礎知識を自分で身につけておくことが大事なんだ。

あたしも以前「探しても見つからないなー」と思って区民センターの人に聞いたらあっさり「ググっただけですけど…」と言われて目的の情報を渡されたことがある。

https://togetter.com/li/1977794#matome

のえる noellabo@fedibird.com

#fedibird #fedibird_info #fedimovie

Q. 「政治」と「趣味」のサーバをわけるという噂は本当ですか？

A. fedibird.comについては、現在もこれからも、そういう運用は行いません。

ここは個人が活動するSNSの中で、一番多目的に使える場所であるように、制限事項も最小限になるように運用していきます。

個人に根ざす限り、政治も趣味もそれ以外の様々な活動も一体となるもので、それをわけるかどうかは各個の判断です。

「政治」と「趣味」の件は、FediMovie（動画共有サービス）の話であろうと思います。

こちらはMastodonとは異なるPeerTubeというシステムによる動画を共有するサービスで、ローカルタイムラインを廃止したfedibird.comとは異なり、一緒に使っている人の影響が強くでます。

大所帯で運営するには向かず、利用傾向の近い少人数で、テーマを限定して運用する方がうまくいきます。

YouTubeのように一ヶ所に集まらず、各自で分散して使おうね、という趣旨のシステムです。

手探りで始めたものですので、開始当初はテーマも共有しており少人数でしたが、徐々に利用傾向が広がってきたため、

もう一つ、ルールの異なる新しいサーバを作った次第です。

ef(マキリ)🎨 ef@pawoo.net

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