Mastodon and today's fediverse are unsafe by design and unsafe by default – and instance blocking is a blunt but powerful safety tool
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Parts 1, 2, and 3 of "Golden opportunities for the fediverse – and whatever comes next"

Even though millions of people left Twitter in 2023 – and millions more are ready to move as soon as there’s a viable alternative – the fediverse isn’t growing.1 One reason why: today’s fediverse is unsafe by design and unsafe by default – especially for Black and Indigenous people, women of color, LGBTAIQ2S+ people2, Muslims, disabled people and other marginalized communities. ‌

  • @Killing_Spark@feddit.deEnglish
    20•8 months ago

    I mean, I guess the point they are making: “Keeping the fediverse an enjoyable experience is hard work by design” is kind of true.

    But I would be very interested in how you can exclude hate speech “by design”

    • @TheInsane42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6•8 months ago

      Make it impossible for people to use it?

      Wherever there are people, there will be nastiness. No matter the reason, some are jerks just because they can.

        • @TheInsane42@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1•8 months ago

          You could build something that prevents people from being offended. Let them answer simple questions like are you offenden by . If they answer yes, no allowed to join.

          I get the feeling that more and more snowflakes are easily offended and the nastiness is partly trolling as they like to offend. (and sometimes the offended like to be offended)

          Maybe the only solution is sulfuric acid. (or alcohol)

          • @Killing_Spark@feddit.deEnglish
            1•8 months ago

            You could build something that prevents people from being offended. Let them answer simple questions like are you offenden by . If they answer yes, no allowed to join.

            That would still require posts or communities to reliably label their contents correctly right?

            Maybe the only solution is sulfuric acid. (or alcohol)

            I strongly belief that if we all strived to get the maximum amount of alcohol into our bellies instead of the maximum amount of money into our accounts society would be much nicer.

            • @TheInsane42@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1•7 months ago

              I’m not sure about the latter. I get drowsy when drunk and fall asleep. Others have a ‘bad drunk’ and get violent.

    • nicetriangle
      4•8 months ago

      Keeping society enjoyable/safe/functional/etc is hard work by design. That’s just the way humanity is. Sucks it has to be this way, but we’re fundamentally flawed.

      You patch one hole in your defenses against destabilization and another one will spring up eventually. It’s always a work in progress.

    • The Nexus of PrivacyOPEnglish
      2•8 months ago

      I’ll get to that in a followon post, but one straightforward way to make progress is to change some of the defaults