Nick

So, this:

is not as much of a racist dogwhistle as the last one I saw here (discussed in this post). But some things to consider:

• In the comments, the author alludes to intersectionality¹, but seemingly fails to take the most obvious "intersectional" step in this case, which would be listening to Black trans folks, the ones who are at this intersection. (See my previous post for links to some takes from this perspective.) Instead the post perpetuates the assumption that Black people and trans/queer people are discrete groups that are at odds en masse, which reinforces white supremacy.
• I think it's very reasonable to look at The Bad Space and conclude that it is not useful for you. That's what I did. Then I moved on with my day. You could also look at it and say, "this could be useful if xyz," and advocate for xyz. Also reasonable.
• It's also fine to say, "I don't think The Bad Space is a good implementation of this idea, and I think my instance admin should use other tools."
• Much of the discourse, including this, seems to be centered on whether the creator of The Bad Space is a good person or a bad person. (That's true of both sides, there's absolutely a cult of personality being created.) I think this is goofy across the board and frequently is a red herring distracting from the actual issues at hand.
• It's extremely wild to call operating a blocklist "oppression" or "fascism". It's even more wild to call a blocklist "creating virtual prisons," are you fucking kidding me?? Blocklists are not inherently good or bad, and can certainly be used to ill effect if they are poorly or maliciously managed, but we are not talking about a form of structural power here, and being put on one does not deprive a person of any of their rights. To perceive a blocklist as a prison implies that you believe in a right not only to free speech but to control who will listen to you, and that right does not exist.
• "Restorative justice" does not impose a burden on victims to "constantly" revisit those who have harmed them just to check and see if they're still assholes. (WTF????)

This was originally a longer post but I trimmed off some of the stuff that isn't necessarily relevant to the OP and will perhaps post it separately.

1. "Even my post above is still an extremely superficial "tip-of-the-iceberg" treatment of issues of intersectionality. I frequently tell people that these concepts are a college-level course because they really are, and it sucks immensely that it really does take sitting down and poring through this material for months on end along with speaking to marginalised groups directly to get even a basic grasp of all the nuances that are just going to be ignored anyway by someone who believes Jewish space lasers are a thing." Worth pointing out that while intersectionality is indeed worthy of academic scholarship and the term originates from such, it doesn't require a college education or the associated class markers to understand.