akhra

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wenchcoat system:
🍯 Akhra (or Melli to disambiguate), ratel.
🐲 Rhiannon, drangolin.
🦡 Lenestre, American badger.

unless tagged or otherwise obvious, assume 🍯🐲🦡 in chorus; even when that's not quite accurate, we will always be in consensus. address collectively as Akhra (she/her), or as wenchcoat (she/her or plural).

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Discord server ostensibly for the Twitch channel but with Cohost in hospice y'know what let's just link it here
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nicky
@nicky

bluesky's head of trust & safety has no idea how to moderate himself out of a wet paper bag, much less manage a social network. he just posted a thread that started like this:

The inversion principle is a powerful tool I use to shift my perspective and uncover blind spots. Consider this example: "I was repeatedly rude to this person because they are bad." Here, user A labels themselves as good, justifying rudeness to user B, whom they've labeled as bad. 1/7

People who agree with user A might think it's acceptable to be rude to user B due to their "bad" views. To check for bias, flip the model by inverting the users. Is it acceptable if user B does the same to user A? If not, there's a bias favoring one group over the other. 2/7

T&S policies should focus on behaviors (e.g., treating others with respect), regardless of the direction of rudeness. Otherwise, policies could be weaponized to favor one group over another repeatedly. 3/7

it is obviously not worth continuing the thread so i'll end it there. basically, as long as you aren't rude, you can say whatever you want. if you're, for example, a nazi? just be scientific and polite about your racist belief system and you're good! and if anyone is rude to you about all the slurs in your handle, that's bad says the head of bluesky moderation! wouldn't want to treat one group better than another! doesn't matter what the groups are! great plan for a healthy social media platform



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in reply to @nicky's post:

🫠 i was juuuuust looking at that thread and at least people are tearing him a new one about it, but... idk if it'll penetrate all the layers of centrism brainrot

i have been enjoying the artist community on bsky a lot but i don't expect it to ever be any better than twitter there

This is exactly what I mean when I say politeness is a tool of oppression. Marginalized people and abuse victims are expected to be quiet about their suffering, if they fight back even mildly they suddenly become the bad guy.
And also the rules of politeness is very much designed with neurotypicals in mind and it causes neurodivergents to fall behind but that’s a whole other can of worms.

in reply to @atax1a's post:

apparently, to some of our ex-coworkers, we alienated twitter trust&safety by being too mean to them and that's why the transphobia on the platform never got better: if only we were nicer, they might have listened to us. : ) : ) : )

The sort of moderation that favors the appearance of "peace" over actual community or justice. Moderation to appeal to investors and advertisors.

Where calling someone a terf is a graver offense than advocating terf policy. Where showing a history of racist behavior is worse than said history. Where "just asking questions" is always valid.