Mastodawn

remember kids: lack of consequences is tantamount to permission.

not holding people accountable for being fucking monsters is giving them permission to continue being monsters.

@Viss agreed, now how do we apply that to elon?

@karl new supreme court justices, for a start.

but this thread was posted in a much smaller context. people here on mastodon being indifferent to folks attacking others maliciously

"Block and move on" does tend to let things continue; you just don't have to look at it.

@jrdepriest @karl 100% - and the attackers have modeled attacks on this.

for example - back on twitter, before elon took it over, if someone blocked you, the hamburger menu for their profile went inactive.

problem is - that hamburger menu is where the 'report' function lived.

so if someone preemptively blocked you before starting a disinformation campaign, you couldnt report them.

if they told their little cult to do the same ...

you see where this is going

happened to me last month right here on the fediverse

i frequently hunt vatnik accounts. i mock them in a calculated manner, then they do what they do and generate material for me to issue a report

recently they tried a fediblock dogpile on a prominent ukrainian. i noticed the new accounts involved had all proactively blocked me

jokes on them. i browse fediblock logged out

it was wonderfully affirming and validating. i am known amongst the slime