Notices by carl marks (tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life)

Any day I can boost someone shitting on IQ is a day that hasn't been wasted, no matter what else happens

@0x00string violence is only sometimes the answer, and the amount needed is less than you think

https://ice.ch3.st/notes/adj1i841is6l0103

@NoFlexZone theoretically very nice to have, practically very very hard to achieve

@NoFlexZone I will also say that I think it's not necessary for good work to be done. I think a coalition model is more realistic tbh

@eri did you know cussing can increase our pain tolerance? It's a winning strategy! Lmao

@NoFlexZone @bottled_o_taki I can talk to Rudy about that when the app drops

@wolf damn, u right 😭

@wolf yeah one thing that's really hitting home for me rn is how many ridiculously irresponsible tech hobbyists there are running around. Like, community management, trust and safety, etc is such a different skill set from having the technical expertise to set up an instance and we've seen the disastrous results one after another on the fediverse.

Having a well-run community makes so much of a difference, it's like night and day. And I can feel the intentionality of Blacksky in so many of their decisions, and THAT (in addition to the core team working absurdly hard) is why they have captured so much of former Black twitter.

@poisonous I am definitely not an expert but it does seem more feasible in some ways at least. I think it takes more of the burden off the users, which depending on preference is either a relief or frustrating.

@charlag (good looking out)

If you reply to my post and don't mention any of the central points of my post but instead speak at length about your opinions on ATproto vs activitypub, in what way is this a conversation? I don't appreciate being talked at and I will not engage. If you're going to just skip over what most of my point was, then MAKE YOUR OWN POST!

my god

@bottled_o_taki @NoFlexZone same!

@NoFlexZone @bottled_o_taki not a standalone one (that's in the works) but there's a web app at blacksky.community

https://azhdarchid.com/delusions-of-a-
protocol/

while I too hate the team at Bluesky, this article does a serious disservice to the work that has been done around Blacksky. The way it's written, while technically acknowledging that Blacksky has been successful in building a service that is independent of Bluesky, handwaves all of that away because it "barely has documentation" and "cannot be done by hobbyists" which isn't true. It also ignores completely the several other services that have started to spring up that also use Blacksky's relay, at least one of which (Zeppelin, I think) is also completely independent from Bluesky.

And then there's the fact that almost all the work towards decentralization on ATproto has been done in the past couple of months vs the several years that the fediverse has had to grow. Like, the only reason I (and many others) have been able to run a Mastodon server is because of managed hosting services that exist, which I know took awhile to come into existence.

I also think that when being snide about decentralization, few articles like this admit that the fediverse also has flaws WRT centralization, with most traffic flowing through Mastodon and most of that traffic flowing through mastodon.social and a couple of other massive, nigh unmoderated instances that make life hell for the rest of us on here. There's been a lot of mud slinging happening and not a lot of introspection.

I also think it's very, very important to mention one simple thing: who has been successful in getting the most Black folks off Twitter? Not Mastodon. Not the fedi, not by a long shot. I know to most users on the fediverse that really doesn't make a big difference to them, as antiblackness does not stop them from enjoying their social media experience. But from where I'm sitting, that matters a hell of a lot.

Just my two cents.

@NoFlexZone @deliberately_me @blackfedi

WHY would he go and confess on twitter?? Whiteness really is a hell of a drug lmao

@J

The serial mutual aid harasser who has taken the trumpian moniker "Jimmy Truth" keeps trying to follow the @blackfedi. So I just want to take this time to say that it'll be a cold day in hell before a disgusting pus boil like Jimmy is allowed to follow the bot. Repellent little warts like him are why the fedigroups bots' extra privacy protections are so important.

For those of you not in the know, when he's not moonlighting as some sort of putrescent gremlin, he spends his time making alt accounts to harass people who have the courage to ask for help when they need it. Best as I can tell, his current tally is well north of 200 accounts made just so he can harass the fuck out of folks. If he's been in #FediBlock once, he's been there dozens of times.

Anyway, also wanted to warn some of the instance admins out there who are harboring Jimmy: if he's had an account on your instance for over a week and you have not taken action against him despite receiving reports about his harassment, you are part of the problem. Those of us who desire a fediverse free of mutual aid harassment will be taking action to protect our users. Thanks.

@bottled_o_taki it's Quite Something

@blackremoteshe @blackfedi see above for important community resource to support!