Katie HauschildtWe are missing the voices of Black, Latiné, and other marginalized folx in the community we are building here, and we need to figure out how to make this space safe for everyone
Jack Iwashyna 🫁@hauschildt totally agreed … safe and of value
Zudin Puthucheary@iwashyna @hauschildt interestingly several black academics have had their posts blocked on this site for calling out racism. @kennethbaillie @Iceman_ex . An fyi for vigilance to ensure that doesn’t happen in this community
Kenneth Baillie@Zudin @iwashyna @hauschildt @Iceman_ex
Hi Zudin - thanks for alerting us to this. The current moderators for this community are listed on the "about" page (https://critcare.social/about/more) and we've agreed to follow the guidance from this 1998 article: https://hrheingold.medium.com/the-art-of-hosting-good-online-conversations-38c6d06642d0
To my knowledge, no-one has been sanctioned on this server.
@kennethbaillie @iwashyna @hauschildt @Iceman_ex I won’t mention names or get into right/ wrong, the servers were mastadon.online and mastodon.social. More a point that we need to encourage people to be join/ speak and that not all servers are the same….
Rosie Baruah@hauschildt @Iceman_ex @kennethbaillie @Zudin @iwashyna It’s great to be having this discussion. Am aware mastodon has a culture of using CWs for sensitive content but we need to decide as a community what is sensitive vs what makes *me* feel uncomfortable and frank discussions about racism/sexism/homophobia/transphobia etc *should* elicit a degree of discomfort.
We are very keen critcare.social does not shy away from tough conversations
@RosieICM @hauschildt @Iceman_ex @kennethbaillie @iwashyna I agree that feeling uncomfortable about a conversation doesn’t automatically mean the conversation is bad by default.
@kennethbaillie @RosieICM @hauschildt @Zudin @Iceman_ex
I think my view on this is that we cannot be purely procedural in the conversations we promote or (hopefully rarely) censure, without regard to impact or content
I think our clinical practice and science are united in a desire to make people’s lives better, particularly those most suffering
@kennethbaillie @RosieICM @hauschildt @Zudin @Iceman_ex
So, I think, I (and we) want both critcare.social + the parts of Mastodon I can influence to be committed to justice—a justice rooted in understanding and working to correct the very real ongoing injustices
#NoNazis #NoHomophobes is not a complete list, but it’s a place to start
@Zudin @kennethbaillie @Iceman_ex @RosieICM @iwashyna
I also think we can participate in conversations about making the broader #fediverse safer by supporting efforts to strengthen robust content moderation through coops for smaller instances, opt-in options for federating with new instances, shared block lists, etc.
Sasha Costanza-Chock (@[email protected])
c2) we control the fediverse, not the market, the state, or the billionaires, not surveillance capitalism, not ad markets, so why would we limit our dreams of how to create community safety to content moderation alone? Let's dream bigger. We can create (and resource) new tools, implement shared banlists, provide resources for rapid response teams and after-attack processing support, and so much more!