I gotta admit, I am loving how little of the conversation is just "BlueSky bad! Mastodon good! 🤡" and how much of it is "BlueSky is not ideal for Black users, but let's be for real, neither is Mastodon. We don't have control over BlueSky, but we do have some agency with Mastodon. How can we make Mastodon better? Where are we with improving the issues that make this place unwelcoming for Black users? Clearly, more Black users chose BlueSky than Mastodon. Have we addressed the reasons why?" ♥️🥹
Seriously, I count ~5 conversations in the improvement framing direction. I love to see it! Shame on me for having lower expectations.
I'm unapologetically backing improvements across ActivityPub and ATProto. I back Hachyderm/Mastodon and BlackSky. You can just back both teams! Nothing in the rules says you can't do that!
Mastodon Migration
in reply to mekka okereke • • •On the subject of improving Mastodon. This may be an opportunity to rekindle developer attention on the 'Followers Only' dogpiling harassment vector. Felt like some progress on the issue was made back in November, but don't know where it stands now.
cc: @stefan
Stefan Bohacek
in reply to Mastodon Migration • • •I wonder if @scottjenson might be interested in connecting with
@mekkaokereke, that is, if he'd like to share some thoughts.
(Unless you two already spoke, in which case, please disregard!)
Stefan Bohacek
in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •But yes, that particular issue, I have not heard/seen any updates either.
@scottjenson @mekkaokereke
Scott Jenson
in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •Yes, @mekkaokereke and I spoke about to how best present Quote Posts and his advice had a direct impact on what we shipped. We're about to reach out for another round of discussions with a wide range of people (but I don't think we've contacted Mekka just yet)
It's so tempting to take the engineering approach and think "this feature will do it!" when we likely need to back up and talk about bigger issues such as culture and moderation.
Mastodon Migration
in reply to Scott Jenson • • •Scott Jenson
in reply to Mastodon Migration • • •Mastodon Migration
in reply to Scott Jenson • • •@mekkaokereke
@stefan
Great. Just to be really clear. What seems to be the issue is a type of hidden dogpiling or 'brigading.'
A tight group folks who's purpose is to harass someone follow each other, 'the brigade'.
One of them composes a harassing post specifically targeting someone who they @ mention, and post it using "Followers Only" reply controls.
The rest of the 'brigade' piles on.
The post is only seen by the targeted person(s) and the harassers.