Sabrina Mustelidae E:Volution @retroskunkette@awoo.space

*deep breath*
The fediverse is a public commons and it is immoral to take from it without consideration of your effects on the sustainability of the network. The use of network salience for political ends should be considered with high degrees of suspicion. The justification of "I must protect my users above all else." is fundamentally a xenophobic argument. The impact on all users must be considered. When those with power have other options we must evaluate their choices in that context.

Also, I'm seeing the worst of tumblr culture being imported, that stuff is endearing to no one. There's genuinely believing in social justice, and then there's "social justice for brownie points."

An admonition:

Your tendency to bring drama and start stupid disputes over practically nothing?

Knock that shit off, it's endearing to no one.

Would like to note something:

The same behaviours that made Birdsite shitty?

Y'all are starting to import here

It would be nice if the fediverse had a formalized conflict resolution process, for users and admins interacting with other users and admins across the instances

A reminder that if you're designing computer security systems in 2017, the following threat profiles are actually all the same threat actor:

* 4chan
* neo-Nazis
* Twitter trolls
* radical theocrats
* the Russian Mob
* the Russian President
* the Florida casino mafia
* the New York real estate mafia
* armed conspiracy theorists
* some Silicon Valley billionaire CEOs and venture capitalists
* The Senate, Congress and President of the United States

Not even joking. This is where we are.

Hey, some important PSA:

If muting transphobia or homophobia is "living in a bubble", them you have some fucking issues.

If you can't make the difference between "trans women are men and should be killed lol" and "you should try Rust, it may be better than C++ because it's safer", you have some deep fucking issues and the humanist part left in me implore you to fucking fix them.

And what's the whole "bubble" thing anyway? You already live in a bubble, that's why you have followings and a home TL instead of watching and marking as read every toot sent in the world.

The whole point of this network is to make accurate bubbles of people you want to listen to.

You want to listen to transhobes? Then fucking admit it, so I can properly tell you to please get the fuck out of my sight.

A Measurement Study of 4chan’s /pol/ and Its Effects on the Web [PDF]
https://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM17/paper/view/15670/14790

(submitted by zczc)

I hadn't realized how much I'd gotten used to the idea of being harassed on the web because 'hands off' policies from inaccessible site admins were so common.

Being here on masto really made me think about how much the web-based cruelty I had come to think of as """"""normal""""" was in fact unnecessary.

Culture matters, in a visceral way.

hello mastodon let's see if you're already being able to mobalize ppl
By activists it's the main argument why use #facebook and #twitter

#G20 is comming to #Hamburg

How about you?

- the 20 most important character masks of global capitalism will meet in the city
- the 20 strongest national economies will push forward the harnessing of the world for the global capitalist use
- G20 is a assembly of bourgeois governments, torture states and warring military blocks reinforcing global exploitation