"What does it mean to communicate on a microblogged global public square? It represents people standing on soapboxes talking through megaphones to their follower base, and then things may spread randomly across the social graph."
This isn't a microblogging account. I make long posts and includeformatting -- and for that matter Glitch is better thought of as a community platform. And if after all these years on social networks you still think of things spreading "randomly" I don't know what to tell you.
"You say you don't want people to come crashing, but how can you expect that talking from a soapbox to unknown audience?"
I certainly can't guarantee it; when people boost posts it happens from time to time, and oh well such is life. But it's not random, there are some things that increase the likelihood, and crossposting to SocialHub on a thread where I'm talking about race is one.
"The subject of this thread was SocialHub. How should people know your preference not to spread?"
You could have noticed that I was making posts about this issue on SocialHub and had made an intentional choice to make this post here instead. More importantly though, the point I was trying to highlight was that the you sharing the link to SocialHub resulted in somebody showing up in the thread and saying racist stuff. That's a predictable potential outcome looping SocialHub into the discussion, so something that I take into account before linking to posts here from SocialHub (just as I do on Bluesky or my blog), or looping SocialHub in if and when that ever starts working.
"If we want to design a better more inclusive fediverse then we need to deeply understand the problem space and able to discuss matters that may be sensitive and controversial, in a creative environment where solutions can be brainstormed. Does a global public square where people jump in with context collapse support that?"
Yes, actually, I have good discussions about that on Bluesky too, although context collapse can be a challenge. And my discussions here (which isn't a global public square) are generally a lot better than on SocialHub.
"Were you communicating in activism / raising awareness style to an audience, or in brainstorm mode?"
I was calling you in on advocating for approvingly amplifying a view of decentrlization advocated by a fan of Curtis Yarvin who has the Peter Thiel / Marc Andreessen seal of approval.
We then proceeded to discuss the view itself, that decentralization "requires a centralized substrate".
"That's really hard to tell, even for us directly involved, let alone for the casual passer-by seeing a toot."
There's no way for you to know my intent, but it was very very easy for you to tell that I was choosing not to include SocialHub in the audience for this thread.
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