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. ‌

  • @cerevant@lemm.eeEnglish
    21•1 year ago

    Say you don’t understand the fediverse without saying you don’t understand the fediverse.

    By these standards:

    • The web is unsafe by default
    • Email is unsafe by default

    In all three cases, your safety is determined by the home you choose, and who/what you choose to interact with.

    • SagrotanEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Nothing is ultimately safe, life is uncertainty. That doesn’t mean one should not care about privacy, but it’s apparently very difficult to tell people to use human sense and that pink mass between their ears. If I wanna use a wood planer, I should first learn at least the basics. They all want something “that just works”. Newsflash, nothing “just works”, paleolithic people knew that already.

    • ScrubblesEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      I really don’t know where this notion of the Internet is safe and you get privacy came from. I was taught 25 years ago that neither of those were true.