Lockdownyourlife

If you want to be an #inclusive and #diverse platform, you need to take the feedback of people when they give it to you, and make actual changes.

This platform is difficult to navigate for blind and disabled people. We need better accessibility & design to include them. (I asked.)

This platform also lacks a good way to block/report instances & individuals across the fediverse in any meaningful way, because they show up on other instances.

As discussed before the "fediblocked" feature is fedifucked. It gives a clear hashtag for the trolls, creeps, stalkers, Nazis and racists to find and harass the reporter.

I know each individual instance has public block lists, but there are entire servers full of the most disgusting filth (as with any platform).

Additionally, I'd like to point out that Black, Brown & Indigenous creators on the birdsite and here have expressed concerns about racism, harassment, and their lived experience and then tone policed for not using a CW.

So let's have these hard conversations as members of the Cauliflower Coalition who absolutely dislike feeling uncomfortable.

Sit with your discomfort and imagine a world where your ability to "ignore" or "mute" isn't possible because of how you look, how people perceive you, or because you're disabled (even the invisible ones).

#racism #misogyny #sexism #harassment #reporting #honest #diversity #inclusion #disability #infosec #tech

Nov 13, 2022 at 3:16pmWeb
Show threadsailingbikerukNov 13, 2022

@Lockdownyourlife This is powerful, true and accurate.

I am a white CIS male, I do need reminding regularly of the challenges others face, I shouldnt, but I don't encouter them and memory fades.

Thank you for speaking up.

Show threadRebecca ShapiroNov 13, 2022
@Lockdownyourlife feel free to add freedom from #antisemitism to your list, unless you're including Jews in the broad "Black, Brown, Indigenous ..." Jews exist in a nether region of special hatred that mutates depending on place, time, and context. And when people apply/misapply the term Nazi they frequently forget those who have been the greatest target of Nazi hatred. So far this has been mercifully hate-free but I'm not holding my breath.
Show threadOctavia con AmoreNov 19, 2022

@Lockdownyourlife

I'd like to share my perspective and experience on content warnings and the liberal use thereof. I'm trans, bi, BIPOC (with my time split between two very distinct nations), and have a neurological disorder and disability that, over my life, has given me what the psychiatrist suspects is PTSD. I have been on the receiving end of discrimination and trauma for each of the above innate characteristics over my whole life. (1/?)

Show threadOctavia con AmoreNov 19, 2022
@Lockdownyourlife
I am a newcomer here of just one week, but in that time, I've noticed something about the CWs. They allow me to consensually engage with content that involve triggering topics, something that is often unaffordable in much of my life. They still allow me to express what I want, engage an informed, consenting audience, while protecting myself if need be and often saving spoons I desperately need for other things. (2/?)
Show threadOctavia con AmoreNov 19, 2022
@Lockdownyourlife
They are, at their core, what in Japanese, we call ki-kubari (気配り): thought for others. It is a small amount of work done by someone for the well-being of someone else. Though Japan, as a heavily collectivist society, goes overboard with it at times, that care for others is something I've felt through peoples' use of CWs. (3/3)
Show threadThe Entire Diagnostic ManualNov 19, 2022

@Lockdownyourlife Invisble illness do hit different.

CPTSD and trolls do not click, especially when empathy and patience are taken for granted.

Still, we need user-side ability to avoid an algorithmic side we don't appreciate, as each person should be able to interact with their space. I believe in the ability to shape our world around us.

Perhaps not make this a new twitter, make it better!

P.S. As someone who's incredibly "invisibly ill" for the love of god, make mastodon intuitive.

<3

Show threadRicardo HarvinDec 11, 2022
@Lockdownyourlife #CauliflowerCoalition 😂
Show threadEggDec 29, 2022
@Lockdownyourlife I feel like this is all kinda what decentralization kinda wants to avoid…if we want freedom we need to take responsibility and know when to not take everything everyone says like a direct attack.
Show threadGodlesswh_reDec 30, 2022
@egg @Lockdownyourlife holy shit. She's being stalked. The onus is on them to stop harassing her. People who abuse others will always find a way to keep doing it. You can't just lock an account down and block these people they will just keep coming back. She has every right to be upset that is a valid emotion.
Show threadhapbtFeb 26, 2023
@Lockdownyourlife it sounds like something a for-profit corporation would have the resources and motivation to do in order to increase its user base. you sound like an upset customer asking a service provider why they don't improve their service, but you're actually blaming volunteers for not putting enough spare time and personal funds into making something for you to use, free. sit with your discomfort and imagine having to fix these problems yourself by writing code and spending money.
Show threadLuke MacNeilMar 28, 2023

If you want to make a difference though, start making PRs. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon

Or... fund someone to do it.

Who do you think is analyzing user feedback on public mastodon timelines and itching to address your grievances?

Meta? The NSA? John Mastodon?

If *you're* not gonna take the time to learn how to do it and then do it, seems silly to get mad at someone else for not doing that.

This service was created and funded by volunteers and provided to you for free.

It made no guarantees.

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Show threadokanogen VerminEnemyFromWithinJan 15, 2025
@Lockdownyourlife
I figured if I scrolled through comments I would find people to block, and I was not disappointed.