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   Erin Kissane (kissane@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:21:19 JST Erin Kissane

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   I can see how this maybe makes sense to people who have never been the target of persistent mass abuse for just existing, but if your whole strategy once an Instagram-scale brigade kicks off is to stay reactive, you're planning to use your trans/queer/Black/high-viz users as ablative shielding.

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     Erin Kissane (kissane@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:21:20 JST Erin Kissane

     "Federating with Meta will be fine, we have no actual plans for *preventing* damage but each instance will totally yeet each individual Threads account involved in the mass-scale brigading instigated by e.g. Libs of TikTok *after* they start terrorizing our users" is gonna be a disaster for very specific groups of users.

     Erin Conroy and Matthew Lyon repeated this.