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."

@irwin

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.

https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

@vanderZwan @irwin

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

https://medium.com/a-change-is-coming/lessons-from-mastodon-for-independent-social-networks-ae2d4ccf8f72

@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.

@shoq @vanderZwan @irwin

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.