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Ben Royce 馃嚭馃嚘
@benroyce@mastodon.social  路  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@bitsnpieces @mastodonmigration

i remember reading @mekkaokereke 's delineation of the #harassment of #black folk around a year ago

essentially using nonpublic #replyguy bullshit. other methods

you can say "well just block and move on"

but the reality is it is a degradation of your experience and enjoyment of #mastodon and drives you from the #fediverse

targeted harassment is not unique to mastodon

but it is a real, here. and we should care

it needs to be addressed with a beefier toolset

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J眉rgen Hubert
@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social  路  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

With the recent influx of newcomers from #Bluesky , it behooves us to contemplate what we can do to improve #moderation on the #Fediverse - something that has been a problem in the past, and is one of the major reasons why the Fediverse is not as big and as diverse as it could be.

The first and most important step is a cultural change - we need to be _aware_ of how harassment operates, _especially_ if we are not its target. Thus, everyone around here - admins most of all, but really everyone - needs to drill the following into their brains:

If you are not a member of a marginalized group, you are unlikely to ever see much of the #harassment they are experiencing. Heck, you might not even be able to recognize it as such! Thus, if members of said group talk about their experiences with harassment on the Fediverse, _take them at their word_ instead of reacting with disbelief or demands for explanation and elaboration.

It is this frequent reaction disbelief that has done more than anything else to harm the reputation of the Fediverse. Because let's face it, we are still a space that is overwhelmingly white and European/North American. If we want to change that - and it is my fervent belief that we should - then we need to take the lived experiences of others seriously.

Once we have accepted that we need to expand our understanding of how harassment on the Fediverse occurs, _then_ we can work out what tools are needed to improve the situation. Because I too often see the reaction:

"If someone experiences harassment on a large scale, they are not using the tools of the Fediverse correctly to prevent this."

This is blaming the victims of harassment for the problem, and not the Fediverse as a whole. And then we will have the same trainwreck as before, and the Fediverse will remain the same hobbyist's collective rather than the serious challenge to commercial social media platforms it should be if we ever want to stop the world's plunge into #fascism .

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J眉rgen Hubert
@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social  路  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

With the recent influx of newcomers from #Bluesky , it behooves us to contemplate what we can do to improve #moderation on the #Fediverse - something that has been a problem in the past, and is one of the major reasons why the Fediverse is not as big and as diverse as it could be.

The first and most important step is a cultural change - we need to be _aware_ of how harassment operates, _especially_ if we are not its target. Thus, everyone around here - admins most of all, but really everyone - needs to drill the following into their brains:

If you are not a member of a marginalized group, you are unlikely to ever see much of the #harassment they are experiencing. Heck, you might not even be able to recognize it as such! Thus, if members of said group talk about their experiences with harassment on the Fediverse, _take them at their word_ instead of reacting with disbelief or demands for explanation and elaboration.

It is this frequent reaction disbelief that has done more than anything else to harm the reputation of the Fediverse. Because let's face it, we are still a space that is overwhelmingly white and European/North American. If we want to change that - and it is my fervent belief that we should - then we need to take the lived experiences of others seriously.

Once we have accepted that we need to expand our understanding of how harassment on the Fediverse occurs, _then_ we can work out what tools are needed to improve the situation. Because I too often see the reaction:

"If someone experiences harassment on a large scale, they are not using the tools of the Fediverse correctly to prevent this."

This is blaming the victims of harassment for the problem, and not the Fediverse as a whole. And then we will have the same trainwreck as before, and the Fediverse will remain the same hobbyist's collective rather than the serious challenge to commercial social media platforms it should be if we ever want to stop the world's plunge into #fascism .

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Mustardon
@bitsnpieces@mastodon.social  路  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@mastodonmigration @benroyce
This is something I have not been able to understand. HOW are people of color being targeted here in such a way that I don't see it? What is the method being used? If I don't see what is happening I can't help in any way. It's maddening to know that people are being harassed in such a targeted way. If I see it, I can respond/report and support as best I can. However this is being done, it's on purpose to keep non-targeted people from seeing it

Ben Royce 馃嚭馃嚘
@benroyce@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@bitsnpieces @mastodonmigration

i remember reading @mekkaokereke 's delineation of the #harassment of #black folk around a year ago

essentially using nonpublic #replyguy bullshit. other methods

you can say "well just block and move on"

but the reality is it is a degradation of your experience and enjoyment of #mastodon and drives you from the #fediverse

targeted harassment is not unique to mastodon

but it is a real, here. and we should care

it needs to be addressed with a beefier toolset

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pospi
@pospi@kolektiva.social  路  activity timestamp last month

"many choices on #Mastodon promote speech maximalism over user safety [..] #federation as a #protocol encodes a negative form of #consent, allowing users to interact by default"

https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/6644

An important and level-headed experiential analysis of #accountability and #harassment dynamics on federated social media.

(via @inquiline)

Pin the tail on the researcher: From distributed to meshy accountability in decentralized social media
| The Journal of Community Informatics
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