@seldo

In fairness to them, they're trying to build in public, and didn't expect this much attention yet.

They opened their invite-only private beta, where they hoped to control a tiny user list, before they'd even implemented blocks.

Sign-ups are protected by sign-up keys, but unfortunately, they didn't rate-limit their sign-up API, and the keys were quite short, so someone wrote a script to brute-force guess sign-up keys. So some nazis got in. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Blocks are being implemented this week.

@Pat @seldo

True. But let me share this about Mastodon...

Many Black Fedi users, including me, have received comments on their posts including graphic images and videos of real humans being murdered, along with racist slurs. Most white Mastodon users don't even see these threats, because of how comments and replies work on Mastodon.

When Black users complain about this, they're told to CW the discussion of their own abuse, but the abuse vectors don't get closed. And it's been years. 🤷🏿‍♂️

@Pat @seldo

"All N-words should be killed and hung from trees!" Along with images of burned Black bodies from a lynching.

Black users see this, but other users on their instance don't, because of how replies work. When Black users talk about it, they're told to CW the discussion. Then told "This is how Fedi comments work! WAI! WONTFIX. Just move servers! (And lose all your posts!)"

Alternatively, some white users will say, "I've been on Fedi for years and I've never seen anything like that!"