Fediverse

27732 readers

412 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

Rules

Posts must be on topic.
Be respectful of others.
Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

-53

Mastodon and today's fediverse are unsafe by design and unsafe by default (privacy.thenexus.today)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

53 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Even though millions of people left Twitter in 2023 – and millions more are ready to move as soon as there's a viable alternative – the fediverse isn't growing.1 One reason why: today's fediverse is unsafe by design and unsafe by default – especially for Black and Indigenous people, women of color, LGBTAIQ2S+ people2, Muslims, disabled people and other marginalized communities. ‌

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I mean, I guess the point they are making: "Keeping the fediverse an enjoyable experience is hard work by design" is kind of true.

But I would be very interested in how you can exclude hate speech "by design"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Make it impossible for people to use it?

Wherever there are people, there will be nastiness. No matter the reason, some are jerks just because they can.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that was kinda my point. There isn't a "by design" solution to people being people

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You could build something that prevents people from being offended. Let them answer simple questions like are you offenden by . If they answer yes, no allowed to join.

I get the feeling that more and more snowflakes are easily offended and the nastiness is partly trolling as they like to offend. (and sometimes the offended like to be offended)

Maybe the only solution is sulfuric acid. (or alcohol)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You could build something that prevents people from being offended. Let them answer simple questions like are you offenden by . If they answer yes, no allowed to join.

That would still require posts or communities to reliably label their contents correctly right?

Maybe the only solution is sulfuric acid. (or alcohol)

I strongly belief that if we all strived to get the maximum amount of alcohol into our bellies instead of the maximum amount of money into our accounts society would be much nicer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I'm not sure about the latter. I get drowsy when drunk and fall asleep. Others have a 'bad drunk' and get violent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Keeping society enjoyable/safe/functional/etc is hard work by design. That's just the way humanity is. Sucks it has to be this way, but we're fundamentally flawed.

You patch one hole in your defenses against destabilization and another one will spring up eventually. It's always a work in progress.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I'll get to that in a followon post, but one straightforward way to make progress is to change some of the defaults