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   Taylor Lorenz (taylorlorenz@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 15:50:55 JST Taylor Lorenz

   Sorry to link out to Twitter but this is a good thread on Mastodon’s structural flaws and how they lead to the erasure of disabled people. https://twitter.com/stephtaitwrites/status/1592305950740078592?s=46&t=RK-V0dy8K1ssmFhaj7ZphQ

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 15:50:54 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • かき@GNUsocialJP

     @taylorlorenz Might this be working off the assumption that servers are siloed, or that you have to join a specific interest-based server? It's an unfortunately common misconception. You and I are on the same server, but if you browse the Explore tab, you'll see a variety of content going viral that originates from wildly different servers.

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     Chris Pirillo (chrispirillo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 15:54:18 JST Chris Pirillo

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @Gargron @taylorlorenz ...am I also correct in assuming you can follow *any* user from across the fediverse so long as their instance is federated with yours? So, in effect, your own Home timeline is irrespective of whichever server you join. Correct?

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 15:54:51 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Chris Pirillo

     @ChrisPirillo @taylorlorenz Yeah

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     josh buermann (buermann@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 16:07:14 JST josh buermann

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @Gargron @taylorlorenz It doesn't make a whole lot of sense if that is not the assumption...

     But the premise that disabled people are "effectively siloed out of view" comes from a retweeted argument about the ramifications of the quote tweet, which wasn't introduced until 2015, a year after Ferguson and five years after the Arab Spring protests were organized on a chronological Twitter. So that doesn't make any sense either.

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 16:11:02 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Matthew

     @hyperplanes @taylorlorenz A trove of wildly viral content on here disproves this idea. Just yesterday I saw a poll with 26 thousand votes in it. All you need for virality is the reblog (boost). There are people who are literally on a server-of-one and go viral regularly here.

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     Adam (admdly@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 16:29:37 JST Adam

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @Gargron @taylorlorenz siloed may not be the correct term, but I can see the basis of the argument. There doesn’t appear to be any universal reach with Mastodon, and discovery is rather poor. It’s very easy to develop an echo chamber, specifically if you do choose an interest specific instance as recommended, and can end up excluded from the wider network unless other instance users have followed off-instance users, etc.

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     Mya Avery (myaavery@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 02:14:48 JST Mya Avery

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @Gargron @taylorlorenz That is part of the siloing though. Instead of it being on your Home feed you have to actively search it out by moving to the Explore tab and then seeking out on your own posts made with a hashtag, which you need to know in advance, and hope that whoever is posting about a given topic is using that hashtag