tl;dr (but please read)
"The tools, protocols and culture of the fediverse were built by trans and queer feminists."
"The culture and technical systems were deliberately designed on principles of consent, agency, and community safety."
I question the author's premise that trans and queer people built the Fediverse. I've met many CIS developers over the years who wanted a more FOSS-based, scalable technology, and were not
remotely focused on protecting sensibilities from being triggered by communication with the rest of the world.
Respectfully, that sounds anecdotal. Is there evidence to support it? And even if true, what's the relevance of it? Mad props for the contributions to humanity, but those features are useful to any community now. Those who invent or built things, (technical, social, and theistic) throughout history have often thought they can control who uses their inventions, and how they use them. It almost never works as they expect.
@shoq @vanderZwan @irwin Shoq, wow, our paths haven't crossed since your attempts to get rid of #p2's diversity focus back in the day. Hiiiiii!
Yes there's plenty of evidence that queer- and trans-friendly features like content warnings were designed built by queer and trans users. For example, 2017's "Lessons (so far) from Mastodon", which also links out to some primary sources
@vanderZwan @shoq @irwin @jdp23
Thanks for sharing these blogs 💜 I really appreciate that 5 years ago mastodon was self-describing as 'twitter without nazis'. That's how I've described it to my friends since I joined.
But within I week I've gone from 'why is there no QT/everyone should join' to 'thank god there's no QT and I'm not telling anyone else'.
Not to say I fully get what the community is going through, but I 💯 hear you
irwin
Shoq 🌿
Job
Jon (now at neuromatch.social)
Sakti 