Been vaguely aware of the latest Fedi drama. Been trying to ignore it, but it seems to have ended up at “trans people need to stop being so sensitive to people randomly assuming they’re disgusting perverts who the rest of society needs shielding from, it was a MISTAKE you guys”.
And that just makes me sad.
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Riley S. Faelan
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Sarah Brown
in reply to Sarah Brown • •“We put a lot of work into the TransgenderCensor-O-Tron 5000 and it was all done in good faith and you people should be nicer to us.
We’re just gonna assume you aren’t being nicer to us, on account of how we blocked every server we found infested with you filthy perversions of nature, but you definitely should be”.
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Sarah Brown
in reply to Sarah Brown • •“What are we doing tomorrow, Brain?”
“Same thing we do every day, Pinky! Try to erase any evidence that trans women exist from the internet!”
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cyborg
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •it seems from this update, that one important bug was fixed?
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Sarah Brown
in reply to cyborg • •@cyborg I know that I, as a trans woman, am most active on the fediverse because other social media sites routinely use algorithmic moderation to flag out existence as “against community standards”, or some such.
I am so very tired of hearing that it’s a “bug”, every single time this happens.
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FeralRobots
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •The "bug" in this case is a major conceptual flaw in the design, which basically was to create a stupid-simple CENTRALIZED blocklist aggregation tool that had no facility for documentation, review, appeal, auditing, moderation, etc. Basically "minimum viable product" [MVP] applied to a case where applying MVP methodology was guaranteed to cause harm.
Sarah Brown
in reply to FeralRobots • •@FeralRobots @cyborg “welcome to social media’s American-style Puritanism. You can run, but you cannot hide”.
So very sick of this shit. I thought we’d moved past it here.
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CharLES ☭ H
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Also, this is not a fucking fix. "Oh sorry, TWO instance admins need to agree you're terrible perverts"
Sarah Brown
in reply to CharLES ☭ H • •@Charles ☭ H @cyborg same shit, different platform.
They can all fuck the fuck off with their puritanical bullshit, frankly.
CharLES ☭ H
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Respectability politics, innit.
I'd rather have solidarity with my fellow deviants (read: sex workers, drug addicts, unhoused people). We all deserve liberation, safety and respect.
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Sarah Brown
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Sion [main]
in reply to Alexandra Lanes • • •@ajlanes Me too, unless the one I *was* aware of from last week suddenly gained some specific trans component that wasn't initially apparent.
(Although I suppose just "being on fedi" implies a specific trans component.)
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