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This story with Tracy Chou, an engineer who specifically works on creating tools to stifle organised harassment online, getting posts removed from mastodon.social because of "reverse sexism/racism," is maddeningly infuriating.
We know that Mastodon's flagship instances have been having issues with moderation for a while, but this seems to point that the trend has gone from "ineffective absent moderators" to "moderators protecting the feelings of white men," which I think will backfire. It also validates every criticism the fediverse receives for being a bastion of tepid, neoliberal, unexamined racism-as-reflex whiteness.
Link to Twitter: twitter.com/triketora/status/1…
To echo Tracy Chou's bannable offense: I also heavily recommend reading more books by non men, by non white people, and by non cisheterosexual people. What a violent ideology! Tabarnouche. 
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@anildash It was a mistake, the official Masto dot social Twitter explained in the answers to Chou's Tweet. twitter.com/triketora/status/1…
Eugen also messaged me to tell me that her post was flagged as antisemitic and a moderator mistakenly agreed with the report. Eugen had to actually go into the dot social database to restore the post manually after he was aprised of the situation, which I think caught his attention because it got a lot of eyeballs on it.
mastodon.social/@Gargron/10937…
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@gersande@silvan.cloud Others have already linked our response to Tracy Chou, but I would like to add that at no point was "reverse sexism/racism" ever mentioned.Mastodon
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admin boosts nazi stuff and publicly said they wouldn't moderate an account that has queerphobic, murder apology and racism in name and bio...
So this has happened:
Can we talk about this, please? #fediblock, #fediAdmin
This is not ok.
(Source: twitter.com/triketora/status/1…)
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Trans journalist Parker Molloy criticized journa.host for failing to moderate transphobia: journa.host/@parker/1093663371…
Their mods responded by suspending her.
I am beginning by silencing journa.host, and I intend to upgrade this to a suspension if they don't shape up. I encourage journalists there to move servers, and if Jawns follow journalists there, you may stop seeing them.
I'll try not to discuss #fediblock too much, but this is a tough mod decision I want Jawns.club members to know about.
Parker Molloy (@parker@journa.host)
While I'm still currently on the journa.host instance, @adamdavidson's decision not to take action on anti-trans content isn't inspiring confidence and I totally understand why other places are doing instance-level blocking.Mastodon
Going to show a little vulnerability here and share this work-in-progress.
I'm trying to put what I'd like to have as a purpose for my instance in writing.
It really sounds like a pipe dream to be honest, and I think an instance's purpose should be so clear that it can be put in a single sentence.
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CSS class' "icon" property "height" causing distance beween two lines in profile views
The said #CSS class .icon has a property height: 48px which with current HTML structure causes a distance between two lines when I view a remote profile (view: /contact/X or a post (view: /display/X):
I'm sure, removing height from the said CSS class won't fix it in the long run but maybe checking the HTML/div structure would.
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HackRead: Leaky Server Exposing Scraped Data of 150,000 Mastodon Users.
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Years before the leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, a landmark contraception ruling was disclosed, according to a minister who led a secretive effort to influence justices.
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Book Review: Be Creative: Making A Living in the New Culture Industries by Angela McRobbie
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Book Review: Be Creative: Making A Living in the New Culture Industries by Angela McRobbie
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“The risk is that [a Twitter collapse] might lead to a dash towards popularity on some other platform, attempting to reproduce the status quo ex, ante rather than taking this ‘social crash’ as an opportunity to reflect on what went wrong [in academic online cultures] and how we might avoid the same thing happening in future.”
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