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Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social
mastodon 4.7.2Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system.
I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics.
Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.
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Something that old (old old) Twitter was and that fedi has been maybe even more—despite a lot of the specialist communities not being here rn—is *incredibly generous* in response to requests for specialist recommendations/ advice, and it's extremely cool, and I'm grateful.
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Also, in case it's not clear, I really want this place to work or I'd be quietly writing novels and reading archaeology journals and taking my dumb little walks.
You got me, Mastodon, I'm writing about software again and I'm inclined to keep going.
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To me, the critical thing is that if you're an admin with no plan for even temporarily slamming down the gates when a truly gigantic service like Threads rocks up and *inevitably* brings the sophisticated networked abuse it enables into fedi, you're failing in your duty of care.
Anyway! A couple of links that dig into the LoT phenom a bit, tx to folks who replied to my earlier queries:
https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/march-libs-tiktok-was-top-twitter-user-amplifying-anti-lgbtq-hate-now-these-attacks-are
https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/libs-tiktok-has-used-twitter-target-over-200-individual-teachers-schools-and-districts-2022
https://wapo.st/46McPVm (gift link)
ok migrating instances 🦆
see you on the other side and/or goodbye forever 🕳️
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Lest I be subtweet-brained, this is one of the things I'm talking about: https://tracks.ranea.org/post/722507935765397504/youre-so-vain-you-probably-think-this-app-is
I think this post is right that Meta doesn't care at all about Mastodon (though I try to avoid leaning on ascribed motives in decision-making!) but very wrong about Threads not being a likely harassment vector.
Threads *already* hosts the exact anti-LGBT harassment vector that made "groomer" a mainstream right-wing slur—and blocking that one account does almost nothing to prevent its harms.
ICYM the (UTC−08:00) evening fedi-meta post but are interested, I wrote a whole lot about the ripple effects of interface confusion on Mastodon—and about Black Twitter and the recent troubles on Bluesky, and why people use things that are far from ideal, and also these dudes, whom I love.
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@jdp23 the second time one of those dudes told me that "the real question" wasn't about Threads or this specific harassment pattern at all, my face caught on fire and I had to back away
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@JoTheBuzzyard Ah, transposed two words, thanks and fixed! 🙏
For the second part, when I go to Follows and Followers on the main interface and click on the links to open profiles, they open on home instances. I just double-checked. Maybe there’s a setting somewhere?
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@JeanPhilippe@techhub.social @jkew@hachyderm.io @forteller@tutoteket.no Her Instagram looks really likely. We have wild Himalayan blackberries here in Oregon that still flower after the first berries ripen, so for them, at least, this would be totally possible in September, just a lot of work.
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@DemocritusDiscoBall (But in any case, I hope you feel better. This stuff will be around later.)