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1. mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 07:10:20 UTC mekka okereke :verified:

   All of the posts on Mastodon about how the Blue Sky team was silly for releasing a social media network in 2023 without blocking and moderation, even in private beta, and that the Blue Sky team should have known what would happen...

   ...are being written on Mastodon: a social media platform that in 2023, still doesn't take into account that Black users face a disproportionate amount of very specific types of abuse, and is missing key features that would make the Black population safer. 🙂🙃

   • mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 07:10:13 UTC mekka okereke :verified:

     in reply to

     • Emelia 👸🏻

     @thisismissem

     Yes, unlisted replies.

     A lot of the targeted abuse that I received while on Mastodon.cloud, was unlisted replies to posts.

     No one else saw, and mods did nothing with reports.

     When I moved to Hachyderm, it dropped to practically zero. When it does happen on Hachyderm, mods are all over it. ♥️👍🏿

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   • Emelia 👸🏻 (thisismissem@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 07:10:19 UTC Emelia 👸🏻

     in reply to

     @mekkaokereke I've been pretty vocal on Mastodon's discord about figuring out improvements to moderation tooling (I did a heap of work in 2018 on trying to improve them)

     I know I don't know the experience of black users, and I mostly draw on my experiences of being trans (different minority, different harms, but maybe some overlap, I'm not sure), but I do dearly wish to have world class moderation tools that just *work* on the fediverse.

     On point 2 below, the replies, is that due to unlisted?

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   • Erica "digifox" Kovac 🌐⚛️⚡ (digifox@tech.lgbt)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 07:10:24 UTC Erica "digifox" Kovac 🌐⚛️⚡

     in reply to

     @mekkaokereke do you have a link to a writeup about fedi/Mastodon features that would make Black users safer?

   • Administrator (mdm@mcnamarii.town)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 07:53:15 UTC Administrator

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     @mekkaokereke Mekka, I really hope you find what you're looking for on BlueSky.

     And if you ever do come back to Mastodon, I hope that some of the moderation tools you've requested will finally be part of the main codebase.

   • mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 07:53:15 UTC mekka okereke :verified:

     in reply to

     • Administrator

     @mdm

     Oh I'm not leaving Mastodon. I'm patient (stubborn?).

     I've seen the work that Oliphant, AreOh, Quintessence, have put into this place. Mastodon has been battle tested under the most extreme racism, transphobia, misogyny, and anti-Semitism. It has burn-in.

     And I've seen a positive shift recently in how Eugen and the Mastodon devs think about these topics. I'm not proposing anything new. These ideas are years old. They're just being evaluated with a new lense.

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