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   Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@calckey.social)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 11:43:09 JST Chris Trottier

   • mekka okereke :verified:

   Folks from BlackFedi have taught me a lot about community safety—and have popped some myths that I’ve long believed.
   
   For one thing, it’s not enough to offer an alternative to an oppressive place on social media because, as oppressive as I may believe a space may be (e.g., Twitter), if there’s not an easy-to-understand way for the community to collectively navigate for safety, you’re not really offering an alternative.
   
   This is something I’ve heard @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io talk about more than once, and it really resonates with me.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@calckey.social)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 11:49:36 JST Chris Trottier

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     • Damon Outlaw

     Here’s a specific example that @damon brought up to me: quotes.
     
     #BlackTwitter has long used quotes as a means to call out threats, and build solidarity against them. They offer both context and commentary.
     
     I get that quotes can do harm. I’m not minimizing that. But they can also prevent harm.

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     Damon Outlaw (damon@calckey.social)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 12:04:03 JST Damon Outlaw

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     @atomicpoet I appreciate you being willing to listen, challenge yourself and call out & on the Fediverse. Like all tools anything can be manipulated & used incorrectly but we don’t stop making and using tools. In response, we attempt to make them safe. We do this by educating, building better tools and understanding the use cases and the misuse cases.

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