Stay away from Calckey ( for now )
blog.ownlifeful.com
Here's my firsthand experience of the Fediverse, a network of social media platforms based on a common protocol ( ActivityPub ). I left Twit...

A small group of people were offended by a joke that unintentionally came across transphobic, and as a result this persons account was blacklisted. Even after getting the account reinstated, there were lasting complications with the state of the account (these probably technical issues) and the account was basically lost for good.

The 9th paragraph is where the incident is discussed.
What do yall think of this?

I’ve definitely been misunderstood myself, and it kinda sucks to think that my account could be lost for good due to a few reports, hasty banning, and some bug in the software.

  • @quickleft
    2•1 year ago

    This guy wrote a long-self pitying blog post about how he has been victimized due to not having got the memo about T------ being a slur. He claims to have been acting in good faith but misunderstood. It is extremely boring cataloguing various accounts and how he has been mistreated everywhere. He narrates his participation in communities where by his own accounting, he plainly does not understand the topic at hand and was being argumentative and trollish. Apparently he received bad vibes from this which I think is meant to evoke sympathy.

    Eventually we get to the conflict (such as there is any) in the story when he makes a weird fetishising comment containing a slur. From the context provided I don’t really get the impression that it was a place where sexual comments were probably on topic and I am guessing it would still have been creepy if he expressed a similar thought without using a slur.

    The author uses the unredacted slur throughout the post. There is nothing resembling evidence that he has taken any time at all to attempt to learn what the “misunderstanding” was.

    Just to show how easy it is to find, here is the wikipedia which is shorter than this comment1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranny

    He concludes with what I think due to the formatting is a ?poem?. You do not have to read any of the rest of it you will understand everything from this:

    Welcome to this corner of the Fediverse.

    You can move all your followers, in theory.

    Your censor is not a black-box Algorithm, but a community of fallible, groupthink-infected people. Beware the tyranny of the majority.

    Your new overlord is not some evil corporate Billionaire, but an entirely like-able nonbinary Jewish Gay hacker who is a wise idiot at UC Irvine.

    • By “the majority” he means 5 accounts who reported him as using prejudicial language and 1 mod who banned him. So that would be 6 people. Out of an n of ??? 7 billion ???
    • What do jewish people have to do with this?
    • Ditto to UC irvine
    • and non-binary people make no obvious appearance in this story
    • But really what do jewish people have to do with this? do you think that makes you look like not a bigot?
    • Calling people “groupthink-infected” and “idiots” when you are being willfully ignorant

    He is assuming the reason why people disagree with him is because they are stupid and manipulable rather than because he is wrong. He is complaining because he accidentally called a group of people by a slur and was shown the door as a consequence. Because he has failed to take the opportunity to learn anything from the situation, he is unable to engage with the issues. So most of the “argument” of this post consists of more name calling.

    In summary, I disagree with the title. This is not interesting.

    1 - pot calling the kettle black when it comes to being longwinded here :D