It seems appropriate that we thank @ruud @jeroen and others responsible for #moderation in mastodon.world instance.
We created our account here uninvited and from the very beginning we received a great #support.
On the very first day some Holocaust deniers tried to troll the account. The moderators reacted immediately and, which is very telling), we actually did not experience anything like this afterwords.
We also got #help when we had technical issues with account verification.
After management refused to give a cut of the $150 million stock buyback, New York Times employees went on strike for 24 hours last Thursday and are on the verge of voting to authorize an open-ended strike unless the two sides soon reach a settlement.
https://prospect.org/labor/new-york-times-union-contract-strike/
The cemetery’s disappearance cleared the way for the expansion of a Microsoft data center, despite layers of federal and state regulations nominally intended to protect culturally significant sites.
If Mastodon diehards want this to be The Next Place after Twitter, the move is to bend over backwards to listen to disabled and Black community about what they do and don't need in social media space.
Even if it's challenging.
Even if it makes you uncomfortable.
These are power user communities, whether folks like it or not.
Taylor Lorenz
onecaliberal
Auschwitz Memorial
The American Prospect
Ken White
Rosanita
Gwen Snyder is uncivil