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william.maggos

AFAICT #Section230 defaults the internet to small, independent websites letting people post dumb shit. And that's great cause sometimes that stuff isn't actually dumb, it was just unlikely to be thought of or said, especially by the wealthy/powerful. It was low-key genius.

Without it, everybody would need to be a lot more careful. Kinda like what we see with overly cautious moderation here on this social network of small, independent websites. IMHO

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The Fedilore Otter 🦦

On three separate occasions, Ro has fantasized about murdering queer people of colour with baseball bats.

In the United States and Canada, "a baseball bat to the face" is synonymous with anti-queer violence. The concepts are so impossible to separate here, that homophobic murders are literally referred to as "gay bashing".

When you defend #TheBadSpace, you are defending some of the most mask-off queerphobia imaginable.

mastodon.social/@fedilore/1129

MastodonThe Fedilore Otter 🦦 (@fedilore@mastodon.social)Let's be entirely clear here. Ro is talking about queer people standing up against his transphobia. These are three posts. One from 2020, one from 2023, one from 2024. The second is in support of very specific threats of offline violence, including how and where. https://mastodon.social/@fedilore/111287360787964517 The later two specifically and literally call for gay-bashing. With a baseball bat. To the face.
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The Fedilore Otter 🦦

This is just so wildly bad faith.

#TheBadSpace is not a neutral tool. It is repeatedly used to target, harass, and stalk queer people for being queer.

Ro himself has repeatedly, openly fantasized about doing gay-bashing - generally towards queer people of colour.

If people genuinely wanted to use blocklists to fight bigotry, they wouldn't be rallying behind the one ran by one of the most blatantly transphobic people on fedi.

h-i.social/@are0h/114077316224

h-i.social powered by Masto Glitch EditionGorgeous Killer (@are0h@h-i.social)Here’s one thing I do know. White people on the fedi are purposely antagonistic to Black and Brown folks. It’s not because they are ignorant or unaware of their tone. They know are being hostile because of their dislike of Black voices. They admit this is private all the time to their peers all the time. I’ve seen the conversations. They do it because they know other white people will see the hostile response ignore the initial comment that instigated it. That’s how racism operates. It depends on preconceived notions to operate. And no matter how a white person identifies politically, they all know how this works and will leverage it at the drop of a hat when they feel threatened in situations they instigate most of the time. This insidiousness is a big part of fedi culture, which explains why so many people choose centralized platforms over this space.
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The Fedilore Otter 🦦

This is either about me or about Eva, but the answer is the same in either case.

Ericka has been throwing out slurs and reiterating her hatred of disabled people for the last few days.

Neither myself nor Eva had tagged Fediblock until /after/ Ericka has launched defederation campaigns against multiple queer communities.

Ro is just straight up lying about myself and Eva here, and it is very evident with his long history of transphobia. #fediblockmeta

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The Fedilore Otter 🦦

And she's using people calling her out for her transphobia and ableist slurs as justification to target queer communities on #Fediblock.

I don't get how anybody can see what @ErickaSimone is doing here, and not think that the purpose of Fediblock is to enable this sort of hatred and abuse against (primarily) trans people on fedi.

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william.maggos

@rebeccabellan @Gargron

this is true of federating with #threads too. they cannot tag us here yet. more hate speech there doesn't mean we will see it unless we follow those users. feeling icky shouldn't be enough reason to disconnect. if this were the sentiment in the 90s, we'd have a much different web today.

when/if they do fully federate, this will definitely be an issue if they go beyond just allowing shitty opinions to not policing their users who harass others. #fediblockmeta

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william.maggos

It's like @mmasnick.bsky.social is slowly forgetting that actually decentralized social media exists. Moderation is different (and better) here. You can let them have their own servers and post anything and only moderate if they bother your users. I know that's different on services like #xitter #threads and #bluesky where letting anybody see it means you have to host it and possibly spread it with your algos. the open web has horrible pages most never see. #SocialWeb #fediblockmeta

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william.maggos

can people be actually kicked off of #bluesky (not just added to mod lists etc)? who has been? where is the criteria listed, who decides and how is it done technically?

imo this shouldn't be possible on decentralized social media. horrible people posting evil shit should be able to start their own servers and it be up to everybody else whether to federate with them (and up to local legal entities re possible crimes and prosecution). like the rest of the internet. #SocialWeb #fediblockmeta

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ChiefGyk3D

I really like the grouping of likes and boosts with the new Mastodon upgrade. It makes my notifications feed FAR less cluttered. Now if only we could get that full support for federated blocklists we can subscribe to officially built in rather than Ad-Hoc that would be amazing.

The blocklisting should be similar to PfBlockerNG on my Pfsense IMHO. docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/la

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