Posts by onlybrownmastodon@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AQwsssVXn5Ig21TN0y by onlybrownmastodon@mastodon.social
2022-12-24T19:44:10Z
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@annaleen It may be useful (if surprising at first) to consider that the tools of investigative journalism are essentially the same as those used by stalkers and harassers.Key question for Mastodon, and any social network claiming to be anti-bigotry: "whose safety and ease of use do we choose to prioritise"?Journalists? Or the desire of marginalised people not to be tracked, surveilled, indexed, bundled, and perhaps sold (or stalked/harassed/threatened en masse, often using automated tools)?
(DIR) Post #AUtmyS19q1amorjfRg by onlybrownmastodon@mastodon.social
2023-04-22T03:48:50Z
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Three common thinking mistakes are more important than what Elon Musk did to further ruin Twitter today:1. Technological nihilism2. Blind faith in algorithms3.. The notion that there exist people without profit motive in a capitalist societyAt least six years ago, this project's first iteration focussed on building alternatives for independent artists and writers.Early momentum led to collision against a roadblock.Shadowy corporate conspiracy? Onerous regulation? Legal red tape?Nope.
(DIR) Post #AUtmyWSxIcCkcElvKS by onlybrownmastodon@mastodon.social
2023-04-22T03:54:29Z
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The momentum-crashing roadblock was erected by the artists and writers themselves -- or rather, by collective inability to see beyond the three mistakes outlined in this thread.Over the past day or so, two Karen-trolls from Twitter groaned and shuffled their way into a thread by someone who declared zero tolerance for Neo-Nazi sympathies.The Karens successfully gaslight the thread's creator, a transgender woman, into retreating from her position via a combination of gaslighting and bullying.
(DIR) Post #AUtmyYC0sZqByGrQCO by onlybrownmastodon@mastodon.social
2023-04-22T03:59:27Z
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Given the strange tendency of social media users to allow such abusive tactics to remain unchallenged......especially when perpetrated by slimily condescending cis/het white women (and given that 20 April is Adolf Hitler's birthday)......it seemed worthwhile -- or at least mildly amusing -- to teach the Karens a lesson in why trying to bully marginalised people, and especially those of us who are actually in harm's way, isn't always a good idea. :)
(DIR) Post #AUtmybz2mjqLjCp7XU by onlybrownmastodon@mastodon.social
2023-04-22T04:09:00Z
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One of the Karens, upon realising that her gaslighting tactics had been turned against her, pivoted to an abuser's second-favourite strategy: befriending the adversary, as a boa constrictor might slither around the circumference of it's intended prey's neck.She even tried to follow this account at one point, and only stopped responding in comments after being firmly told to go away.The other Karen — in the guise of "bad-cop Karen" during their attempted Nazi-apologistic bullying — remained.
(DIR) Post #AUtmye316wD486hK0e by onlybrownmastodon@mastodon.social
2023-04-22T04:13:55Z
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Bad Cop Karen was a typical bloviating troll, with a twist: her angle was to pretend that remaining on Twitter was actually an act of altruism toward marginalised people.How dare anyone use their _privilege_ to demand we all abandon Twitter's ethnofascist wasteland and move to Mastodon, when all the disabled, the poors, the writers, and the artists, are all utterly _trapped_ on Twitter with absolutely _nowhere_ else to go?She was firmly entranced by the impenetrable circularity of her logic.
(DIR) Post #AUtmyfa1PiCksl9C5o by onlybrownmastodon@mastodon.social
2023-04-22T04:19:53Z
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That circular logic is exactly what this project could not break through several years ago.Back then, indie writers were psychologically locked into Amazon's algorithms. If you asked about creating an alternative, they all responded with an ominously similar refrain:There is only Amazon. There is nowhere else to go, no other choices. There is only Amazon. We must use Amazon.Wandering directly into the Amazon sausage factory, they couldn't fathom the longer-term, more harmful game afoot.
(DIR) Post #AXHbd5ZtGDK6S1viKm by onlybrownmastodon@mastodon.social
2023-06-27T03:38:12Z
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@eveiswurzig @blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social Aveta is mentioned in this article as the person trying to herd people to Bluesky.https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/08/blueskys-growing-pains-strain-relationship-with-its-black-community-moderation/Given the stratospheric level of naivete (naivete, at best) required to run straight from one Jack Dorsey-created trashfire to another, "better" one......how has the Aveta person shown that they are not massively gullible and/or easily convinced to do the wrong thing because it's techie, trendy, shiny and new?(Defederation is encouraging.)