mastodon 4.7.3Social Computing + STS + Gay Shit
PhD Student @ CMU HCII
Looking for a Summer 2023 internship 😅
As we talk about the future of online discourse atm amid Twitter's meltdown, I implore scholars explicitly commit to social justice and anti-fascism.
We should give no quarter to the mealy-mouthed both-sides-ism embedded in, for instance, research on "polarization."
Vague platitudes about the "marketplace of ideas" fails to reckon with the fact that far-right online discourse is a specific driving force behind offline stochastic terrorism.
As a queer Jew, I'm tired of my people being killed.
Last night 5 people were killed in a shooting at a #gay club in #ColoradoSprings
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/20/people-killed-shooting-at-colorado-springs-nightclub
In other social computing news… #Grindr went public
The instance beta.Mstdn.cf seems to be creating accounts that mirror prominent Twitter accounts without consent, leading to impersonation issues
Anyone else trying to explain the social construction of gender this #Thanksgiving ?
Not surprised, but Trump will be returning to #Twitter
@tizan@mastodon.social @ruchowdh@mastodon.social the goal was to port content from Twitter to Mastodon/ActivityPub so you could follow folks here without having to use Twitter
The goal makes sense but the way it was executed does not (e.g. why not change the username or bio to make clear it is a crosspost bot?)
@ruchowdh@mastodon.social maybe try to get the mastodon.social mods to block the domain beta.mstdn.cf #FediBlock
Per this snide blog post, looks like the instance was set up as a Twitter-to-Mastodon bot by someone not thinking/caring about the consequences of their actions:
https://write.as/nicolas-constant/closing-the-official-bsl-instance
@lizzard@mastodon.social 🤷🏻♂️
@cjp@tech.lgbt I've also been thinking about sexual content on Mastodon recently!
Found CWs used pretty extensively for NSFW content even in queer/kink NSFW instances. Rather than just saying "this is NSFW" using descriptions like "leather' or "frontal male nudity"
However, I've noticed big discoverability issues around finding these communities
Here is a lil explainer afaik:
1. Home is who you follow
2. Local is everyone on your instance (in your case all the accounts on katy.media)
3. Federated (kinda everyone the accounts on katy.media follows)
If you are the only person on your instance then local and federated are a lot less important
@phillyotter@bear.community tbh I’m not sure what the implications are…
Maybe good in that there is more oversight over public companies but I know the new CEO is also quite conservative: https://time.com/6221545/grindr-ceo-george-arison-tweet-conservative-politicians/