Anything that requires end users to react to trolls in a reactive way and in a troll by troll basis, and only after the troll has dropped their payload is going to take its toll on vulnerable folk.

Big popular blocklists that people subscribe to aren’t always the answer, because they also have a history of incidentally impacting marginalised groups, even when they’re trying to protect them.

Instances that welcome that part of Twitter are mostly defederated.

Bluesky just got major investment from a crypto bro…

It’s not flukey…

Because it pretends to be different to the centralised corporate social media platforms, whilst giving the cohesive experience of a centralised platform

It’s a federated protocol, but the network itself isn’t meaningfully federated, and is basically just Bluesky (the company) infrastructure. Hopefully that changes, because until then, it’s still a centralised social media platform, despite the underlying technology

Imagine my surprise when “What could Hamas do to end the violence” wasn’t just an innocent question…

Australian/British slang. It’s a disparaging term for Americans

Starts with rhyming slang

American = Yank Yank = Tank Tank = Septic Tank Septic Tank = Seppo

As I said, yes, a lemmy that bans folk like you is a lemmy that is doing something right

“What could Hamas do to end the violence?”

Nothing else.

And I got immediately banned.

Making excuses for genocide being something that gets you banned is a lemmy I’m fine with

Seppo is a really unfortunate name…

Your language settings are probably hiding a lot of content. You need to enable any languages you speak and also enable undetermined

Brendan Eich. He donated money anti marriage equality organisations and politicians, and half of the Mozilla board resigned when he was appointed as Mozilla CEO. He stepped down from that role after 11 days, and went on to found Brave.

He’s also an anti-masker/pandemic conspiracy theorist

Sorry, homophobia!

I don’t use Google either

Aside from the transphobia and crypto shilling, I’m sure they’re great

I have many issues with hexbear, but transphobia is not one of them. They are explicitly and aggressively trans inclusive

carrying a bulky Z fold phone in my pocket only to be able to have a tablet once in a while and watch a movie is not interesting enough.

It suits my needs perfectly though! You can take my folding phone out of my cold dead hands

I can call you Betty And Betty, when you call me. You can call me AI

In addition to the federation issues, make sure your language settings are correct. If you haven’t included both your spoken languages and “Undetermined” in the language settings, then the UI will not display posts for the options you’re missing

Yep, it was one of his posts referring to implementing his existing approach to AP that I was thinking off!