birdsite vent, furry vent
it bugs me getting sent links to posts from friends of friends and i'm just Blocked and i know exactly why even though we've never interacted (and now never will again)
re: birdsite vent, furry vent
It's getting to the point where most of furry is doing the digital equivalent of pretending I don't exist just because i'm quad now.
and look, i'll never forget what the [progressive/leftist] furry fandom did to me here. I can't express to you how fucked up it feels to just Not Have A Chance of even interacting with a huge portion of the fandom. It is quite like that stupid black mirror episode where you just get blocked and no one can see or understand you. That's where we're at
re: birdsite vent, furry vent
@Oneironott If these people are so vindictive and petty they'll block people based on hearsay, they're probably not very nice people anyway, so not much is lost. Even if that mindset is because social media makes outraged conservatives out of everyone.
But I guess that ultimately doesn't change how crappy it feels to see friends-of-friends like that.
re: birdsite vent, furry vent
@Taylor So basically you have blocklists run by teenagers who scour the fandom and add literally anyone who is, say, feral or quad... then some other random furry who wants to not see actual offenders uses the blocklist and suddenly you have a problem (that few are taking seriously enough imo)
re: birdsite vent, furry vent
@Oneironott Blocklists for altright and gamergaters were a useful development and important during GG's high time but nowadays I just don't know if I can trust them for this very reason.
There was this one blocklist called... BadFurBGone, that while it *touted* that it listed sexual abusers and racists, there was an air of ambiguity that felt open to manipulation and it made me uncomfortable.
re: birdsite vent, furry vent
@Taylor Oh, yeah, i'm on that one. I am almost positive at this point that, as a concept, blocklists have been co-opted by shitty people. it's too easy a tool to use to sow discourse
re: birdsite vent, furry vent
@Taylor I've been there enough to know that it's much more casually blocklists that folks assume are fine and okay. I think very few of these folks are manually blocking me, which is a different sort of beast. The alt-furry block list was useful and popular and functional enough that fandom blocklists run by less reputable people became popular enough