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
@jdp23 @vanderZwan @irwin
I never tried to do that all. I tried to make others realize that #p2 could be a larger community for the public Liberal good, and you simply reacted like that I was some threat to your papacy.
The core issue for me is how the needs of everyone, not just marginalized communities, can be protected from abuse, without trampling on our collective ability to express ourselves without armies of hall monitors dogpiling us.
Give it tme. More servers will serve everyone.
Right, that's the core disagreement now as it was then. I think you get to something that works for everybody by prioritizing the desires and needs of marginalized communities. You think it's just as important to prioritize privileged cis white people.
More servers with cis white admins catering to cis white audiences -- like the mostly-white mostly-cis "suggested follows" on most servers -- serve some people more than others.
@vanderZwan @irwin Background here: #p2 was a progressive Twitter hashtag Tracy Viselli and I started back in 2009 with an explicit goal of using Twitter to engage with communities that were marginalized by the progressive blogosphere.
Shoq thought that was scary to a lot of white people (true) and the "public Liberal good" would be better served by making it less explicitly diversity focused.
Straw, Jon, Where did I prioritize white audiences, simply because I am not prioritizing those who want to blot out offensive and triggering speech with solutions that simply cannot and will not scale?
They are already failing to scale, which is precisely why we're having this discussion now. Why can't we all just agree that we're all about to learn about and build something new, and try to be at least respectful of everyone's needs and views as we work it out?
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