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Dr. Johnathan Flowers Nov 16, 2022

Right, so: I get a lot of these kinds of replies. Not to dunk on Nemo, but the general tendency of telling folks to start their own instance with all of the features we want ignores crucial things that marginalized communities often lack: time and resources.

https://corteximplant.com/@nemo/109351863643584265

☄️Nemo (@[email protected])

@[email protected] i'd add that mastodon is not the fediverse, and that black community don't HAVE TO join mastodon. They could fork it and make it their own, or use a soft that maybe already contains the ability (i have no idea if that exists but hey ...) And by that mean forge the tool they need to build these communities out of harm way, with the affordances you deem are necessary. They could do it. And if it federates, it doesn't even have to be closed to the rest. How crazy is that.

CORTEX IMPLANT — a cyberpunk'ish fediverse instance!

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers Nov 16, 2022

This is not to appeal to a "poverty model" or an "incapacity model" where marginalized communities are concerned, but to point out the very real resource dependencies necessary for a marginalized group to run an instance.

Beyond technical resources and monetary resources, two things which have been covered in the previous litigations of this suggestion by marginalized mastodonians, there are also personnel resources as well, by which I mean moderators.

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Nisa (she/her)

@shengokai It’s a lazy response and continues to ignore the issue of what instances admins should do to create inviting spaces for marginalized folks. Similarly to those who’ve mentioned admins/mods responding to harassment missed the point of it happening in the first place Of course we cannot prevent nefarious folks from creating an account but there is certainly a community solution to be had that doesn’t involve putting the work on the individual.

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Nisa (she/her)

Nov 16, 2022

@shengokai I wonder if features like word filters, in that it would prevent the post from appearing in the first place could work. But runs the risk of blocking content that may be picked up by the word filter and those going a bit overboard on what is blocked. I’m reminded of the feature on TikTok in which you can block comments that have words from your filter list.