Ethics in Transgenderism
2024-12-29 19:12:30.739448+01 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
The Fediverse/Mastodon/what-have-you has been a weird place. The "We want this to be a place we can become influencers/sell our shit" crowd has been trying to push it to be a Twitter drop-in, some of us are just happy that we can communicate with the people we've met who found blogs too much work (and that we never really found an RSS solution to keep up with), and there's a lot of drama.
Barks by Aria Salvatrice: Actually, it’s about Ethics in Transgenderism (the title a nod to the disruption of social spaces by the Gamergate movement) is a long rant that's entirely too in love with its own language and conceits, but makes a good case that several of the attempts to create shared blocklists and moderation for the Fediverse have been assholes just looking to profit off of our social spaces.
There's a lot to unpack in here, and I'm not the best person to do so. I've got gobs o' privilege in online spaces I've inhabited over the years, and I've mentioned before that in the early '90s we had this optimism that if we brought the world online we'd create this fantastic space, and instead we brought all of the shit of the world into that space and destroyed it.
Undoubtedly some of that is related to making it a more inclusive space.
But it's also definitely the case that the people who want to profit off of our communities have destroyed my connections with all sorts of people over the years.