Vissremember kids: lack of consequences is tantamount to permission.
not holding people accountable for being fucking monsters is giving them permission to continue being monsters.
I feel like its important to add:
- not all monsters are huge political ones, some walk among us
- dogpiling people on social media, chasing them around the internet, harrassing them and abusing them for months makes you a fucking monster
- if you see people doing this to others, you should say something, or make an attempt to stop them or intervene
- standing there and watching someone get kicked in the teeth (figuratively) is the opposite of consequences
a high doom@Viss all at once, i appreciate my small circle where the chance of being involved or seeing such behavior is very rare, and also reminded there be monsters everywhere even if i dont see them
@h2onolan its probably less of an issue here on mastodon, because of the distributed nature of things - back on twitter, one of the hacks the attackers could take advantage of was that if they blocked their victim up front, the victim lost the controls on the attackers profile to report them. i think here even if youre blocked by someone, the toggles for reporting the profile still exist. also, its regular people doing the admin, not some corporate trust & safety group that needs convincing
Gin Kangaroo@GinevraCat @h2onolan its entirely possible, yeah