Could you explain a bit more?
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@FediTips Bigotry? Where do I draw the line between what I should tolerate and what I should start doing something about? Twitter was mostly right-wing bigotry, here it's mostly left-wing.
p.s. The reason I mentioned the two Github issues above was because they have come up in discussions by people who feel unsafe on here due to bigotry and abuse.
There were people specifically mentioning they wanted reply controls so they could pre-emptively prevent abusers replying to their posts.
There was also concern about Mastodon's "reactive" moderation where admins have to wait for reports. A flagging system would be "proactive", allowing admins to act without waiting for reports.
No. Proactive would mean if someone posts abuse the admin potentially sees it straight away and can immediately take action without waiting for the victim to see it and report it.
At the moment Mastodon is only reactive, so the only way an admin knows about abuse is if someone else reports it, by which time it may have already been seen by the victim and the damage is done.
@FediTips oh cool! I hope it works!
I've edited my post to make it clearer 🙂
@FediTips Might be also worth including https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14762.
Thanks, that's probably closer to what was being requested so I've replaced the issue in the post with that one.
@FediTips I think there was a lot of racism here when the initial migration from twitter happened, when Elon bought it. And unfortunately, the only way to fix that is to have a diverse and representative group of developers and decision makers.
What probably won't work is a lot of white people voting on features. The trans community plays a big part in this community, in terms of it's development and direction which is great, but there is a gap there, if there is a lack of black voices.
Agreed, diversity is needed in deciding priorities.
Just to be clear, I'm not saying "white people vote on what should happen", that wasn't the intention.
The two features listed in my post were specifically ones that had been requested in various discussions by victims of bigotry, that was the only reason I included them in this list. For example there were people saying they felt safer on platforms with reply controls, and there was concern about Mastodon's reactive moderation.
@FediTips I think part of the reason people don't call others out here is out of fear of "creating a pile on". Which think in turn grows out of the idea that all conflict is "drama", and the person in the wrong is the one who causes the drama irrespective of the rights or wrongs of the situation and who the wronged party is
@FediTips Mastodon needs an intern possibilty to suggest and vote for such things
Could you explain a bit more?
@FediTips I mean an oppurtunity to suggest and vote for features and other improvements. Based on their own platform and not on a Microsoft one.
Ah yeah, that would be great!
PeerTube did something like that a while ago: https://ideas.joinpeertube.org