mekka okereke :verified:
@digifox @erincandescent @oliphant @Are0h
There's real safety through *moderation* (how do we handle bad actors?). And imagined safety through *curation.* (Who gets to join?).
To date, BlueSky is safety through curation, and that's breaking spectacularly. One single Nazi got in a few days ago, and wreaked havoc. And with invites, someone invited journalists. Journalists invited transphobes. And now we have trans folk and transphobes on a site with no block function yet. It's a whole mess.
mekka okereke :verified:
@digifox @erincandescent @oliphant @Are0h
Instead of saying "BlueSky is better!" Or "Mastodon is better!" we should recognize that for Black users, Mastodon and BlueSky both fail spectacularly in different ways that can be fixed by making slightly different trade-offs.
"😮Why would you even join a site with no blocks yet?" Is a very reasonable question. The answer from many Black users would be "Because it was still way less racist and less dangerous than being on Mastodon?"
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