mekka okereke May 31, 2024

@ddritter

Twitter:
*I make a post at 9am and go about my day
*A racist replies with racial slurs at 9:15am
*Everyone sees the racist replies
*Everyone reports the racist replies
*Twitter mods take it down by 10am
*I check Twitter again at 11am, and never even see the racism!

Masto:
*I post at 9am
*Racists reply in such a way that only me, them and their followers, see the racism
*So no one reports it
*Everyone gaslights me with "I don't see racism here!"

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111012743709881062

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] From your screenshot above, and the scenario I listed below, imagine if: 1) the racist user is on "Nazis dot social." They have 5000 followers. 2) the Black user is on "Good people dot social" 3) the nazi replies "Followers only." The scenario: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111010421955145872 None of the good people would see the gore images, or the subsequent pile-on.

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Oh, that is a problem. Hadn't thought of that. Weaponizing the Fediverse's privacy policy, by keeping anyone but your victim from being able to see it. So the racist perpetrator can gaslight you, since everyone else has no way to tell that it's happening. And what do you do about it?

You can link to the offending messages, but the racist didn't mark them as public, so if anyone follows the links they'll surely see "You aren't allowed to view this message."

You could post screencaps, but those are easy to fake, and it's just a mess. Sorry, I really don't know what to do here. Maybe... any private recipient of a message should be able to make it public? Even then, you'd have to deal with all of them on your own, and other people couldn't preemptively help moderate.
Aug 2, 2024 at 8:58pmWeb
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OK I think I have an idea. There should be a way to ignore private messages to multiple recipients. That's the only thing abusers can do here, that they cannot do on Twitter: send you a private message, and also send it to all their followers to brag. With that as a feature, the only racism you encountered that others could not help moderate would be private messages, just like on Twitter.

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