Irenes (many)Oct 10, 2024

the fucking Salvation Army had the nerve to send us a piece of paper mail asking for donations

so we figure it's time for our annual reminder to please not donate to the Salvation Army because their mission and their services are explicitly hostile to queer people.

Show threadIrenes (many)Oct 10, 2024
the really nice thing about hosting our own infrastructure is that, when somebody really deserves it, we can say "fuck"
Show threadDaniel GibsonOct 10, 2024
@ireneista
there are instances where you can't?
that's cruel
Show threadIrenes (many)Oct 10, 2024
@Doomed_Daniel for example, twitter and youtube both forbid it
Show threadDaniel GibsonOct 10, 2024

@ireneista
ok, but those are no fediverse instances ;)

(also, pretty sure I regularly used fuck when I still used twitter years ago, never got any complaints, though it's possible that THE ALGORITHM punished me)

Show threadIrenes (many)Oct 10, 2024
@Doomed_Daniel no, yeah, it's technically true that there are plenty of places on fedi that would allow it. we just don't like being subject to other people's rules in general, especially when respectability has been a core concept in writing the rules.
Show threadIrenes (many)Oct 10, 2024
@Doomed_Daniel as regards twitter, since assessing the significance of the word was contextual, enforcement was driven largely by reporting. therefore, as you'd expect, it was disproportionately enforced against visible minorities. we saw trans feminine people get banned for it following mass-reporting campaigns.
Show threadIrenes (many)
@Doomed_Daniel we regarded having to worry about that as a moral injury, but we weren't interested in actually dealing with the consequences, so we toed the company line.
Oct 10, 2024 at 4:07amWeb
Show threadDaniel GibsonOct 10, 2024

@ireneista
ok, I never was very visible and am not really part of a targeted minority, so it makes sense that I never got into trouble (apart from maybe becoming even less visible thanks to their algorithm, who knows)

I see the freedom that a custom instance gives, but I'm too lazy (and as far as I can tell the administrators of my instance are ok - but of course like on Twitter I'm in a privileged position and not very visible)

Show threadIrenes (many)Oct 10, 2024

@Doomed_Daniel oh that is totally fair. we're not advocating that everyone should run their own, we realize it's a lot of work (in fact we just spent a few minutes in the middle of this conversation fixing something we broke while upgrading it...)

but it's work that makes us happy, so we do it :)