Sarah Brown

goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org

I'm Sarah. I'm a Brit who fled to Portugal on account of Brexit, increasing intolerance and the British weather. I like climbing (although I can't do much any more for health reasons) and sailing. This is a Friendica account. Friendica is kinda like Facebook as Mastodon is kinda like Twitter, except they can talk to each other.

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Sarah Brown

6 months ago •

Sarah Brown
6 months ago •

So I just had a transphobe try to piggy-back off a recent popular post I made, presumably to gain reach. i have a decent following here on fedi, but am a micro instance. They too were a micro instance. By default, people on micro instances are not easily discoverable other than by interaction, so if you have a following on one, it’s generally because you’ve built it “organically”, as it were.

They presumably thought that by posting transphobic rage bait in response to me, they could get me to reply, and my reply would federate to my followers, and then they’’d be seen.

Instead I just instantly defederated their server with no response.

They are howling into the void, and nobody is there to hear.

This is not Twitter. Just because someone replies to your thread doesn’t mean the rest of the word will see it. This is the achillies heal of bigots here. Most big instances will moderate them into oblivion, so they start micro instances, but unless people actually like what you’re saying, and interact, you simp

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Sarah Brown

in reply to Sarah Brown • 6 months ago •

Tl;dr: ostracising arseholes works to curtail their influence and ultimately, their behaviour, and the fediverse by its nature serves to promote that ostracism.

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clew

in reply to Sarah Brown • 6 months ago • •

Fewer moderators needed per user, d’you think?

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Sarah Brown

in reply to clew • 6 months ago •

@clew I think once you understand that outside the big instances, “what I see is not what everyone sees” then it becomes clear. As a small instance mod, you’re like the “readers’ letters” section of an old newspaper. Just because people send you stuff doesn’t mean you have to help the world see their thinky thoughts.

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Anca

in reply to Sarah Brown • 6 months ago • •

@blogdiva thank you for posting this. I was just explaining this feature to someone as example of the resilience of fediverse

@your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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Quixoticgeek

in reply to Sarah Brown • 6 months ago • •

you're an artist! Nicely done.

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Elias Mårtenson

in reply to Sarah Brown • 6 months ago • •

that's a nice explanation. Thank you for this, and I'lluse this as an example the next time Ihave to explain what the Fediverse is.

Now, I'm sure there are people who will argue that this is what makes the Fediverse bad, since it's very hard to "go viral". And I'm sure I could hace been seen by more people if I started posting on, I don't know, instagram? But you know what? Quality over quantity.

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Sarah Brown

in reply to Elias Mårtenson • 6 months ago •

@Elias Mårtenson I hate going viral here. It makes my poor little server slow and hot.

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Hannah Neurotica

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i’m super new to this whole Fediverse but knowing that makes me even more glad to be here!

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Ivan Sagalaev

in reply to Sarah Brown • 6 months ago • •

incidentally, this is why many activists (or faketivists) don't like fedi: they need to forcefully push their message and they can't. And one can have opposite opinions depending on whether they consider the message to be good or evil. I, for one, value this property of the fediverse very much.