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   Angie 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 (angiebaby@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 13:52:07 JST Angie 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦

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   • Bruce Mirken
   • Captain Janegay 🫖
   • Josh Grant

   @CaptainJanegay @BruceMirken @joshin4colours

   The ability to block an entire instance on a user level is great. But if you're on a large instance, and most of that abuse is coming from users of that same instance, the option is useless.

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     Captain Janegay 🫖 (captainjanegay@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 13:52:08 JST Captain Janegay 🫖

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     • Bruce Mirken
     • Josh Grant

     @BruceMirken @joshin4colours @angiebaby Honestly, I don't think the solution is to seek it out. Although we don't have an algorithm throwing the absolute worst shit in your face for Engagement™, the nature of federation still means that stuff that is boosted and replied to gets federated more widely.

     We need to make the moderation tools and structural effects stronger so they protect everyone, and to be mindful that people who report harassment are telling the truth even when you've not seen it

     Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) repeated this.
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     Bruce Mirken (brucemirken@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 13:52:09 JST Bruce Mirken

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     • Josh Grant

     @joshin4colours @angiebaby Same. So what can we do, if anything, in order to see it? I am also on mas.to and don't see much problematic behavior of any kind.

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     Angie 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 (angiebaby@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 13:52:11 JST Angie 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦

     The most insidious thing about racism on Mastodon is how it is done in such a way that the majority-white user base never sees it. I don't think that it's simply a matter of white people not seeing what they don't want to see - at least in the vast majority of cases.

     So when a non-white person discusses the racism they see as a user of Mastodon, it must feel like gaslighting when white people respond with "What do you mean? I've not seen anything like that here."

     Church of Jeff repeated this.
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     Josh Grant (joshin4colours@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 13:52:11 JST Josh Grant

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     @angiebaby as a white person on Mastodon for a while now, this is 100% true

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     Pete (forpeterssake@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 14:33:04 JST Pete

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     @angiebaby

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.