Some suggestions for fighting bigotry on the Fediverse:
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@FediTips @Kierkegaanks It's not like there is a clear line for such things, or? how would an outsider know? Maybe its an insider, parody, culture, etc.
I think it's dangerous to suggest "take action" without being asked. You may think of yourself being able to judge always right, which btw. I could not say about myself. Amyway it's like Damokles Sword, isn't it?
The flagging system wouldn't cause any action to be taken, it would just alert a human admin about certain words and phrases. The admin then uses their judgement to decide whether any action needs to be taken.
There isn't anything automated here except telling the human admin there *might* be a problem.
For example if someone is using words or phrases that are usually used as slurs, they would be flagged up and the admin would look at the context to see if it's abusive.
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@FediTips I mean an oppurtunity to suggest and vote for features and other improvements. Based on their own platform and not on a Microsoft one.
@meissda @FediTips Someone else in this thread had a good point that "voting" for features may mean that minorities who need the features most (e.g. non-whites) may get out-voted by majorities that don't.
I think the model used by PMWiki for feature suggestions is a better one: rather than entertaining features which "might be nice", feature requests need a use-case which can be demonstrated as already existing.
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Some suggestions for fighting bigotry on the Fediverse:
- Challenge and report bigotry even if you're not the target, don't leave it to victims
- Listen to victims, don't question their honesty or demand a solution from them
- Don't remain neutral, take a stand
- If you're an admin, defederate servers that knowingly tolerate bigotry
- If you're comfortable using Microsoft Github, give thumbs up for reply controls (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14762) & keyword flagging (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21306) on Mastodon -
Agreed, diversity is needed in deciding priorities.
Just to be clear, I'm not saying "white people vote on what should happen", that wasn't the intention.
The two features listed in my post were specifically ones that had been requested in various discussions by victims of bigotry, that was the only reason I included them in this list. For example there were people saying they felt safer on platforms with reply controls, and there was concern about Mastodon's reactive moderation.
@FediTips that's fair, I didn't mean to be putting down your post. My understanding is more mod tools are needed, and I was trying to highlight that
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