Even though millions of people left Twitter in 2023 – and millions more are ready to move as soon as there’s a viable alternative – the fediverse isn’t growing.1 One reason why: today’s fediverse is unsafe by design and unsafe by default – especially for Black and Indigenous people, women of color, LGBTAIQ2S+ people2, Muslims, disabled people and other marginalized communities. ‌

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    1 year ago

    I mean, I guess the point they are making: “Keeping the fediverse an enjoyable experience is hard work by design” is kind of true.

    But I would be very interested in how you can exclude hate speech “by design”

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      1 year ago

      Make it impossible for people to use it?

      Wherever there are people, there will be nastiness. No matter the reason, some are jerks just because they can.

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          1 year ago

          You could build something that prevents people from being offended. Let them answer simple questions like are you offenden by . If they answer yes, no allowed to join.

          I get the feeling that more and more snowflakes are easily offended and the nastiness is partly trolling as they like to offend. (and sometimes the offended like to be offended)

          Maybe the only solution is sulfuric acid. (or alcohol)

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            You could build something that prevents people from being offended. Let them answer simple questions like are you offenden by . If they answer yes, no allowed to join.

            That would still require posts or communities to reliably label their contents correctly right?

            Maybe the only solution is sulfuric acid. (or alcohol)

            I strongly belief that if we all strived to get the maximum amount of alcohol into our bellies instead of the maximum amount of money into our accounts society would be much nicer.