Mastodawn

💉💉💉🎉Nov 21, 2022

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Another Black person played Mastodon "instance roulette" and lost.

We need a Mastodon instance Green Book pronto or this ain't gonna work.

This is starting to feel like the WW2 Dunkirk evacuation where the Black and Indian Commonwealth soldiers were abandoned on the beach...

https://twitter.com/wickdchiq/status/1594711597359980547

Erica Ifill on Twitter

“Good morning and what the fuck????”

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Outeast Nov 21, 2022

@mekkaokereke I saw @triketora's banned post got reinstated with an apology. When this was communicated to her on Twitter, there were dozens of vile replies screaming about anti-white leftist racism, etc etc. I looked at a lot of those accounts: all rightwing racist trash, several with a lot of pro-Musk content. None with Mastodon links. It makes me wonder if *part* of the picture is Twitter racists joining Mastodon to flood the mods with reports, exploiting systemic weaknesses.

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Outeast Nov 21, 2022

@mekkaokereke I'm not denying existing issues, to be clear, and it's only a hypothesis.

Exactly. Any social network with sufficient moderation realizes that this is part of the problem space: malicious users target Black women with a flood of false and fake terms of service violation reports.

This happens on FB, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, etc.

Inability to control for these false positives and cynical reports, creates a network that doesn't work as well for Black women or other targeted groups.