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All of the posts on Mastodon about how the Blue Sky team was silly for releasing a social media network in 2023 without blocking and moderation, even in private beta, and that the Blue Sky team should have known what would happen...

...are being written on Mastodon: a social media platform that in 2023, still doesn't take into account that Black users face a disproportionate amount of very specific types of abuse, and is missing key features that would make the Black population safer. 🙂🙃

@mekkaokereke do you have a link to a writeup about fedi/Mastodon features that would make Black users safer?

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@digifox

No, but people smarter than me do!

The 3 things listed here would be a good start, and would have prevented the take-off of BlueSky.

hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/110

@erincandescent [queer.af] has a good writeup on how we might handle reply abuse.

@oliphant and @Are0h [ubiqueros.com] invented "composable moderation' and the concept of "delegated moderation providers" years ago, they just didn't call it that.

Lots of folks have talked about safer onboarding for years.

Hachyderm.iomekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)I'm not interested in having Fedi 'splained to me. I'm just saying why more Black folk are on BlueSky: 1. It should be almost impossible for a new, non-technical user to onboard onto the Fediverse and accidentally join a server where they will receive racist death threats. 2. It should not be possible for racists to reply to a Black user's post with hateful gore images, without other users on the server knowing it. 3. It should be easy for a new admin to default into a safe, general denylist.
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@digifox @erincandescent [queer.af] @oliphant @Are0h [ubiqueros.com]

There's real safety through *moderation* (how do we handle bad actors?). And imagined safety through *curation.* (Who gets to join?).

To date, BlueSky is safety through curation, and that's breaking spectacularly. One single Nazi got in a few days ago, and wreaked havoc. And with invites, someone invited journalists. Journalists invited transphobes. And now we have trans folk and transphobes on a site with no block function yet. It's a whole mess.

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@digifox @erincandescent [queer.af] @oliphant @Are0h [ubiqueros.com]

Instead of saying "BlueSky is better!" Or "Mastodon is better!" we should recognize that for Black users, Mastodon and BlueSky both fail spectacularly in different ways that can be fixed by making slightly different trade-offs.

"😮Why would you even join a site with no blocks yet?" Is a very reasonable question. The answer from many Black users would be "Because it was still way less racist and less dangerous than being on Mastodon?"

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@mekkaokereke It's understandable to have that initial thought of "why would anyone join a site with no blocks?" But then it should come with some questions about what the current options are lacking or what harms they are inflicting that makes the option appealing. Most "Why would anyone ..." questions are inherently based off of one's lived experience and knowledge, but at some point folks have to realize their experiences are not universal. BTW, I really appreciate the discussions on threads you are on.
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