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"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)
@pospi
Thanks for reading and sharing! Btw the 2nd quote you refer to is from this paper, sharing in case you or others want to read it in addition to mine:
Melder, E., Lerner, A., & DeVito, M. A. (2025). “A Blocklist is a Boundary”: Tensions between Community Protection and Mutual Aid on Federated Social Networks. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(2), 1–30. https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3710919
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