Seeing some posts talking about fediblocking turning Mastodon into a "filter bubble." No. We absolutely do not need abusive or fascist views to have a high level of intellectual diversity. Full stop. That hate can fester somewhere else.

After 20 years of social media, the experiment has been run. Hateful people are unconvinced by rational argument, so there's no point engaging with them.

This is a rotten, disingenuous, meritless argument, from A to Z.

Fascism is to be defeated, not debated.

Maybe you all know this already but twitter allowed academics who are otherwise marginalised by white, male hieracrchies to enjoy reach and visibility. (Yes, I count myself as a beneficiary here).

For many who have 'odd' names that don't get cited as much, or people who cannot travel to present talks easily, or are not invited as often or speak in unfamiliar accents, it was a chance to let their work and message speak for itself.

We'll need to reclaim that possibility for everyone. #Academic

I have a request.

Bad actors will soon figure out - if they haven't already - that setting up impersonations of important organizations now will allow them to set off an explosion of chaos and confusion at a time of their choosing.

So if you run an account for an organization (especially #LGBTQ), please set up link verification between your Mastodon account profile and your organization's website.

If not, please boost.

Instructions are here under "Link Verification":
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/

Here's a threaded statement, just from me: #fediblock #trans #journalism

Please no RT from other admin on my server.

I am not leaving journa.host. I do consider Mike Pesca personally transphobic. I will not extend the benefit of the doubt to Pesca, having shared an open plan office with the dude on a few occasions, and with his well known radio voice carrying quite well, as it happens. 

OK so heres my all time fav image, #Christchurch #NewZealand , taken morning of Sept 3rd 2010, the day before we were hit with a 7.3mag Earthquake (Darfield) that started a series of quite literally massive events that changed all our lives.

First photo I had worked my way into the scene manually controlling exposure, building the frame and waiting for the person walking through on the way to work. #canon 7D with 17-55ef-s