I'm generally against no-trust systems, as an ideological pursuit, but building your systems toward outcomes that would otherwise be reliant on good individual behavior can get a lot of important things done with minimal risk or imposition. This is why I feel large instances are unsustainable on this platform. Sharing an instance with another person -- anyone -- means sharing liability for that person with all the other users. It's not just about moderation; instance blocks silence everyone.
I'm shitting myself posting this even without any relevant "guilt" to speak of. I have literally no userbase here on Hellsite, and I'm exactly as racist as any other white person on Earth is fated to be despite even the utmost possible effort or insight. But I've had some experience with abuse in my life and I know what I'm seeing here. Grievous accusations built on flippant, wildly reductive second-order conclusions should throw off red flags for anyone. This can't be how we redistribute power.
Look me in the eye and tell me this person has a pattern of good-faith collaborative public safety work that you feel confident lending your name to support in public. Please. Not just reblogs, not toeing the line. Please explain to me how the pattern here is healthy, and why you're so sure it won't come around to hurting you. Are you comfortable with building a precedent that powerful instance coalitions with figureheads like these should micromanage your every moderation or policy decision?
@saddestrobots i am literally watching other people reblog the anti jortshorse fediblocks right now like 😅😅😅
Racism is so confusing, isn't it? It's okay! I've got the answers for you! I can save you from your whiteness!
The correct derogatory would be "queer whiteness" anyway, but these dipshits don't even know how to not viciously slander themselves in the process of whipping their sorry crew into shape. after all, i am trashgarbage uwu, amirite
Really what could be more nauseating than white queers foaming at the mouth about "white queerness"? If they learned *anything* about anti-racism, the first thing would have been to check the virtue signaling ethic at the door and boost the voices who made the critique. The vacuous deference usually advocated by these posts works precisely against any meaningful operationalization of standpoint epistemology, and instead implies mysterious, unaccountable, versatile dogmatic powers for themselves.
PSA: take some time in 2023 to back up your/your family's CD-Rs (and other recordable media) full of memories you threw into storage 10+ years ago; there's a decent chance they've started to rot!
the tenuously thin layer of dyes/adhesives holding the data *will* break down over time, rapidly so if their environment is uncontrolled, the surface was previously nicked/contaminated, or they were cheap ones to begin with
What fresh hell is this? Adobe has opted me in to letting them train their algorithms on my photos? That’s the end of me using their cloud storage for anything, ever. #privacy #adobe #lightroom #LightroomMobile
Excuse me dear retailer, what you have here is "a giant pile of high-effort, low-density steel scrap"
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of bread. - Anatole France
RT @DailyLoud@twitter.com
Starting today it will be a crime to sleep on state-owned land in Missouri. That includes streets, parks and underneath bridges and overpasses. You will be fined $750 and face 15 days in jail.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DailyLoud/status/1609632314010570755
Get ready for the propaganda initiative in which Mastodon will be labeled a site for “groomers” and “pedophiles.” It’s the least creative messaging imaginable, but you know it’s only a matter of time before we hear it coming from Elon, Fox, Daily Wire, etc. FWIW, Human Events is a right wing rag with roots that stretch back to the Goldwater conservatism of the early 1960s. It was Reagan’s favorite source of information.
after the opportunistic micropolitical fediblocking we've seen out of instances like weirder dot space, it should be clear to all this bare method of collaboration is worse than vulnerable, it is just begging for abuse and we have to do better.
Scrappy queer