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Bird wrote

I have literally no conventional social media connections, what is disqordia and what is the controversy occuring around it? If anyone doesn't mind informing me anyway.

Squawk

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NoPotatoes OP wrote

I read the whole thing and I'm still not sure. Something to do with moderation not happening (fast enough).

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ChaosAnarchy wrote (edited )

yikes this "you have to block this or that" do sound really shit. I actually feel like it might be a bad tool in the end because liberals just use it to block anarchists that doesn't do everything on their whim regarding to identity politics.

also as a former mod it's just super exhausting to always moderate, they really can't expect to moderate 24/7 without even earning money, considering it gets even bigger this whole mastadon thing.

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NoPotatoes OP wrote

it might be a bad tool in the end because liberals just use it to block anarchists

If this is the worst case, it might not be so bad. Still tiring when my feed is drowning in the litigation of an instance twice removed from me.

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__0 wrote

So one user (mod) assumed that an ubuntu mastodon server was the linux os instead of the African philosophy, people said that it was racist for them to assume that and the user told the people who were claiming that they were racist to “kms” and the argument goes to blocking the entire instance because of this…

People are also like looking at the following of this person and doing some guilt by association type stuff.

Honestly being federated is kind of pointless if you want to have this type of heavy handed moderation, like just block other instances…

Theres plenty of edgy people on the internet. If the fediverse is to have any utility to your average person, we cant have entire instances being blocked out because of a mod being tactless in response to an internet brigades dogpiling… this is just another reason not to federate.

Different internet spaces should be allowed to have different cultures, honestly i like how raddle has its own posting culture, and how people talk to eachother with respect instead of assuming ill intent, it makes it way easier to discuss things when there is hurt from miscommunication, as opposed to just labeling people as racist. When people default to invasive gathering of evidence in preparation of an internet trial, instead of sharing experiences and offering insight…

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__0 wrote

I really hope this doesn’t come across as me thinking racism is excusable or that there is any room for racism or any other oppressive language in conversation, however there is definitely a line where things are ambiguous. Understanding that in a “society” that accepts people from different backgrounds needs to accept that often there is no fixed context or frame of reference in communication.

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ArmyOfNone wrote

That feels backward, but I'm still struggling to understand how the fuck the fediverse is structured, and how such levels of complexity is a plus if you wanna attract people from the corporate social media platforms. It looks like a scattered web of instances that keep disconnecting from each other or something.

Geeks still are not getting the notion of "accessibility"... if you want something to just work online, you need simplicity, not over-complications.

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