it would be cool if mastodon allowed you to view followers of people who are not on your server.
dungbeetle
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recent vermont transplant. interested in people, animals, film, technology, politics, psychology, video games, being right all the time...
Anton Newcombe
Dr. Johnathan Flowers"Build your own instance," in essence, is a refusal to consider the possibility that we'd like to be our whole selves in community with others, rather than having to build our own walled gardens. On this view, it becomes a doubling down on the unacceptability for certain people to be authentically themselves within a digital social space.
Luke LeBrunThis is a big problem for Mastodon.
Canadian journalist Erica Ifill just had her mastodon.online account suspended without explanation. She's been sharing stuff critical of Mastodon re: intersectional issues.
I get the decentralized structure and idea that each server has its own rules. But this Reddit-style moderation, where moderators with god-complexes make mysterious and arbitrary decisions, is going to cause people migrating to Mastodon to flee in droves.
I moved to @law-and-politics. . . If a woman got raped, it was seen as her fault. (She was supposed to be guarding the “goods.”) Even after the Civil War, the rape of a Black woman wasn't seen as a crime.
Even men low on the hierarchy benefitted. Think of it: They had no trouble getting a woman. Women literally couldn't say no because they had no options.
Then along came the Civil Rights and women's rights movements and the patriarchy was dismantled.
We are riding the backlash. . .
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19th century America was a strict hierarchy (specifically, a patriarchy) with White men at the top and Black women at the bottom. Black women literally didn’t own their own bodies.
White women were kept out of the professions which kept them dependent on men, which gave men control over them.
19th-century laws reinforced the hierarchy.
Rape laws preserved the hierarchy and were designed to protect (white) men from false accusations, they weren't designed to protect women from attack.
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