Posts by moxfulder@mastodon.online
(DIR) Post #AY0V16RLKwPYCuLdnk by moxfulder@mastodon.online
2023-07-22T08:29:09Z
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For anyone reading this and thinking 'wow, Byron's doing some good honorable work here that sounds really difficult', what he means when he says 'dealing with other admins' is going into the Mastodon Discord and suggesting changes to Mastodon that would harm community instances, like removing the local feed, and then getting told by other admins that that's a bad idea. There's plenty of rational discourse, it's just not in favor of his idea, which must be a pretty new thing for a white guy.🧵
(DIR) Post #AY0V18SpoMnCU73rP6 by moxfulder@mastodon.online
2023-07-22T08:35:25Z
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There's no 'lack of rationality'. What he means is, he's brought up these ideas before, and opinion hasn't changed. He can't understand why local feeds are valuable to instances that run as communities, so any opposition to it is considred 'irrational' and 'tribalism' to him. He's a white guy in tech, he's not used to having his opinions challenged, especially when they're being challenged in favor of building safe spaces* for communities that normally face oppression and discrimination. 🧵
(DIR) Post #AY0V1AFRB9GS18oBnc by moxfulder@mastodon.online
2023-07-22T08:38:23Z
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* No, Byron, 'safe space' does not mean 'a public Discord server where my posts can be copy-pasted or screenshotted elsewhere'. Safe spaces are places where marginalised people can exist in safety, where there are safeguards in place to protect against harassment, discrimination, hate speech, etc. I can understand not knowing this, as you've probably never needed a safe space in your life. It is very disingenous to claim 'there are no safe spaces' when this is your interpretation of safe space.🧵
(DIR) Post #AY0V1C3SSes1cZDePA by moxfulder@mastodon.online
2023-07-22T08:42:25Z
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When the people in the Mastodon Discord call you out on co-opting and generalising the 'HOA' analogy from Black folk, that's an attempt to create a safe space - not for you, but for people vastly more in need of actual safe spaces. You interpret this as 'problematic', as lack of rational discourse, because you're being held accountable for the things you say and for the harm those things perpetuate. You are framing the people who are trying to create genuine safe spaces as irrational - 🧵
(DIR) Post #AY0V1FhysS4Ex7CYU4 by moxfulder@mastodon.online
2023-07-22T08:45:24Z
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- and you're doing it disingenuously, without providing the full context, which means anyone reading your posts will just take your word for it, nodding along in sympathy, imagining you facing off against these nasty admins and their ridicule and their tribalism and their irrational attacks, when all that's really happened is you made a suggestion in a Discord room, it was responded to by a bunch of people explaining why it's not a good idea, and your privilege did not know how to handle that.🧵
(DIR) Post #AY0V1HdRiHd0vd5xh2 by moxfulder@mastodon.online
2023-07-22T08:49:03Z
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You are advocating for a safe space where the things you say into a public channel are never shared outside of that channel. The fact that this is what your idea of 'safe space' means speaks volumes about the kind of life you get to live.*You* need to do better. Not us. *You* need to realise that in November 2022 you entered a space that had been existing for six years as safer place for the systemically oppressed, and we're not going to let you take that away without fighting for it.