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   blaine (blaine@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 04:19:34 JST blaine

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   • Jon
   • inquiline

   @jdp23 @noracodes @inquiline
   The difference between the fediverse and e.g. twitter is that we have agency here; on twitter, we never really had agency – whether it was from the algorithm, or over the withdrawal (or granting of) consent.

   I help run a small mastodon server using the hometown fork, and consent for distribution there is scoped to a local community. It's in that flexibility that we might find our way forward – not by wide-scale cultural wars that only serve to diminish agency.

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     blaine (blaine@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 04:19:35 JST blaine

     • Jon
     • inquiline

     @jdp23 @noracodes @inquiline I don't think it's very different from "the real world"; walking down the street involves some forms of consent, but doesn't grant many others.

     We can't exist in a world where we police who is allowed to exist in which spaces, and I don't think we should. Instead, we build relationships that are deeper than passing someone by anonymously with consent, and value those relationships more.

     Tim Chambers repeated this.