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   Christopher Trottier (atomicpoet@firefish.city)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 18:29:17 JST Christopher Trottier

   So let me be more clear about this. I'm all for defederating the Bluesky bridge -- if that's what you want to do.
   
   However, I'm seeing a lot of people say, "Every server that uses ActivityPub must defederate from Bluesky because this is a safe space for marginalized people."
   
   But if that's true, why have so many marginalized people come to an ActivityPub-enabled server, and ended up leaving because they felt this wasn't a space for them?
   
   Specifically, I saw quite a lot of Black people encounter racism on certain Mastodon servers and then migrate over to Bluesky because Bluesky felt like a safer space for them. Sure, in many ways Bluesky has worse moderation policies than ActivityPub-enabled Fediverse, but they also found Bluesky to be safer for them.
   
   And we have to ask ourselves: why, on a place that has questionable moderation, do they encounter more safety than here?
   
   It may be true that the ActivityPub-enabled Fediverse may offer a safe space for some marginalized people, but certainly not for everyone who is marginalized. Frankly, if there's safety here for some people but not others, is it all that safe to begin with?
   
   RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/8a1c053b-b059-476e-9caa-3419f8f314d5