Mastodon and today's fediverse are unsafe by design and unsafe by default – and instance blocking is a blunt but powerful safety tool
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Parts 1, 2, and 3 of "Golden opportunities for the fediverse – and whatever comes next"

Even though millions of people left Twitter in 2023 – and millions more are ready to move as soon as there’s a viable alternative – the fediverse isn’t growing.1 One reason why: today’s fediverse is unsafe by design and unsafe by default – especially for Black and Indigenous people, women of color, LGBTAIQ2S+ people2, Muslims, disabled people and other marginalized communities. ‌

  • P03 LockeEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    A terrible idea by the LGBT community to expand the definition, when they thought they already “won” the battle and wanted to expand their scope, completely ignoring how marginalized the trans community was at that point, and how much was still left to fight for LGB rights. People quickly objected and most threw away the dumb acronym.

    • be_excellent_to_each_other
      2•1 year ago

      I kinda thought the ever-expanding acronym problem was being informally solved by a gradual transition to just saying “Queer.”

      I am not a member of any of the groups that would fall under that categorization though, so I may be wrong.

      • The Nexus of PrivacyOPEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        It’s tricky … many people do use “queer” as an umbrella term, but a lot of trans people don’t like being lumped under that, and some lesbian, gay, bi, and agender people don’t consider themselves queer. There aren’t great answers.