Notices by Wogan May (wogan@mastodon.africa)

Following multiple reports of harassment from multiple users, the following domains are now suspended from #MastodonAfrica :

* poa.st
* beefyboys.win

Reminder that this is not Twitter: Your reports matter, and they support moderation decisions that actively improve your experience. Please report bad behavior!

@thomasfuchs I'll keep an eye on the tags you recommended, but the little bit I know about the quote-toot debate (other than being just about the most divisive issue in the fediverse) is that most of the pro-QT arguments center around context-adding, anti-QT arguments reduce it to "dunking" and "dogpiling" (which Twitter did, admittedly, perfect), and there are Mastodon forks out there already running with prototype implementations of quote-tooting.

@thomasfuchs My point being, I haven't yet seen the notion that an individual's socioeconomic background relates to the tools they need within Mastodon to feel at home here. That seems to be achieved much more often with actively-moderated servers that will pre-emptively defederate with any other instances deemed hostile.

@thomasfuchs From what I've seen, search being basically non-usable was a deliberate design choice - it makes it harder for people to find other people to attack, and I can't say I disagree with that logic.

That's another recurring theme in the last few months: People trying to build "index the fediverse" projects that keep meeting resistance from people who explicitly *don't* want their ephemeral content easily surfaced to hostile actors.

@thomasfuchs @Gargron I've seen this conversation (and many like it) over the last few months, and I'm genuinely curious about something: The relationship between "underprivileged" and how these features help mitigate that in a social network context.

Are there some published essays/thinkpieces unpacking that? Intuitively it seems "weird" that the only difference between being on Mastodon, or not, for an underprivileged individual, is the ability to quote-toot.