Post #1483728

2025-11-04 21:06 UTC

@shiri agreed that more tooling is needed. But I will just repeat what I already said about safety vs. growth. Of course it's a tricky problem, community moderation is difficult. Signing up to run an instance means you're agreeing to take on difficult problems. So I don't have much sympathy in this context because white techies have been choosing growth and reach over safety from day 1. And the rest of us have been catching hell for it the whole time. One of the many reasons the fediverse is as white as it is

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@shiri@foggyminds.com 2025-11-04 23:16

@tillshadeisgone I appreciate it, I won't pretend that I don't have my own racist blindspots or biases, and this helps me inspect them. I personally want growth not as an arbitrary measure but just that I'm ultimately wanting the people I care about elsewhere to move off of corporate platforms enough that I myself can completely abandon those platforms. I'll make a fuss often on areas where people are upset over ridiculous concerns (most commonly I've harped on people who post publicly and are upset that their public posts are visible to people they don't like), but I try to listen as a starting point and I appreciate you drawing attention to this behavior and problem. I was planning to re-open my server to open registration, but you have me questioning that. (I mostly have the advantage of a less popular platform, friendica, and I took advantage of a setting that limits registrations per day)

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