Post AxBQfvx76zuziK9qIS by smallcircles@social.coop
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(DIR) Post #AxBQfvx76zuziK9qIS by smallcircles@social.coop
2025-08-14T09:58:06Z
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@laurenshof @jdp23I consider the #FEP process as a "best-we-can-manage" at the moment. There is room for a ton of improvement in the grassroots standardization process. What I would be much in favor of is to see more organization around specific themes.The FEP is nice but it is a random collection of bits and pieces collected as best-practices from across the ecosystem.Examples of where decentralized ecosystems focus on specific use cases or verticles are #ForgeFed, Podcasting, and Forums.
(DIR) Post #AxBQfwphq1aSRdhROC by jdp23@neuromatch.social
2025-08-14T18:00:48Z
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Several people on SocialHub have pointed to the FEPs as a place where the discussions are working relatively well -- and it's certainly a good thing to have a grassroots-oriented process. But, safety is a huge problem in the Fediverse. How many FEPs relate to safety? In the rare events it actually happens (like Blocked Collections) , how much input is there from marginalized users or admins of instances that focus on protecting marginalized users? There's an example in that thread of somebody bringing up in issue (instance blocking) that's very important for marginalized users and admins, and somebody who has a reputation for not interacting with Black people and blocking many trans users says it should be out of scope. Nobody pushes back. Nobody starts up an alternate FEP to address this other issue."If there is 1 forum for everyone to discuss FEPS, and that forum is racist, than thats extra bad"Most fedi platforms have a track reord of ignoring Black users priorities; at least oOne of the most-widely-used opensource fedi platforms is run by somebody who has a history of anti-Black behavior. Still, their input is important for FEPs -- and ideally their projects will adopt the FEPs as well. If you've got a single centralized space, it's going to reflect the overall anti-Blackness -- which winds up reinforcing fedi's anti-Blackness as a whole. @smallcircles @laurenshof
(DIR) Post #AxBQfxybaQIdzWs3to by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-08-15T04:57:17Z
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(1/?)@jdp23 > FEPs ... happening in a space where Black people almost never participate and there are only a handful of womenThe people working on FEPs are (a subset of) the people working on AP implementations. If there is a lack of people of [insert identity category here] in FEP process, then this is symptomatic of a deeper problem; a lack of those people using AP in their software.@smallcircles @laurenshof
(DIR) Post #AxBQvFFhdbfPun9aWe by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-08-15T05:00:09Z
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(2/?)I get that AP dev spaces being exclusive wouldn't help, and we must avoid that. But the absence of those people *isn't* in itself evidence that AP dev spaces are exclusive.It could also be evidence that people of [insert identity category here] are more interested in created bounded, self-governed social spaces online. Which conflicts to some degree with connecting those spaces to an unbounded, mostly ungoverned meta-space like the fediverse, which is still a wild west to some degree.
(DIR) Post #AxBRMMHFcwj5WNo3ou by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-08-15T05:05:03Z
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(3/?)Another option, that no on ever seems to consider is that a perceived lack of people of [insert identity category here] could be a case of people choosing handles/ avatars that don't broadcast their personal identity markers. Because they just want to get on with some technical work, rather than being pulled into the Culture War posturing and drama-mongering that a subset of white USAmericans/ EUropeans seem to be so excited by.
(DIR) Post #AxBRhol0vynRvpxbrU by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-08-15T05:08:56Z
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(4/?)Whatever the reality of the situation is, it's complicated, and the solutions will come from slow, careful, respectful community building and outreach. Not by slinging accusations around, and spewing toxicity into the spaces where people are trying to get fiddly technical work done. That kind of thing - however well intentioned - is just as likely to drive away people of [insert identity category here] as anything else.
(DIR) Post #AxBSBtgDCG6bt13bns by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-08-15T05:14:22Z
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(5/5)"...there are risks to viewing the world through the prism of identity ... If 'identity' becomes synonymous with 'perspective', dissenting members within the identity group risk having their viewpoints erased and their humanity diminished. And when used cynically, as a political weapon, a simplistic view of identity can allow people of a particular political faction to wrongly imply that they speak for all members of their racial or gender group."#BriahnaJoyGrayhttps://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/08/how-identity-became-a-weapon-against-the-left