so Kiwi Farms has set up an instance here and I would like to explain why this is very bad, worse than gab in my opinion. for those who don't know, Kiwi Farms is a community dedicated to finding neurodivergent people, and making a spectacle out of mocking them, harassing them, doxing them and documenting everything they do. they are most well known for their harassment of 'Chris Chan', a lower functioning autistic trans woman who has been internet 'famous for about a decade and that's all down to their documentation of her and continuous harassment.
kiwi farms is bad news, they're dangerous, more so than the edgy memelords of gab.
And by all means, if you're one of those assholes, please absolutely do drop into my DMs so I can boot you off the island. I've been doing this all day and I see no reason to stop now.
The reason that I don’t really feel comfortable working on Pleroma is because the other people in the community are folks like the neckbeard.xyz host or karolat, or some of the devs make nice with these people. I don’t want want to expose myself to a community of people that’s actively hostile to me.
@Zero_Democracy I think because of the completeness of the release? (At least for permissive licenses.) It's like how fixing the fucked up climate would involve giving Nazis less cleaner air & water and better environments for starting their own self-sufficient farms or whatever.
It's letting the information go & be truly free. This is not the same as actively communicating & working with people you find to be fascists (get a Code of Conduct) or trying to advertise to them.
"(Left unstated, but strongly implicit, is the presumption that whatever policies are arrived at in this way will be applied transparently, dispassionately and in a manner free from politics.)
Every single aspect of this argument is problematic.”
“There is an implicit theory, a clear philosophical position, even a worldview, behind all of this effort. We might think of it as an unreconstructed logical positivism, which among other things holds that the world is in principle perfectly knowable, its contents enumerable and their relations capable of being meaningfully encoded in the state of a technical system, without bias or distortion….this is effectively an argument that there is one and only one universal and transcendently correct solution to each identified individual or collective human need; that this solution can be arrived at algorithmically, via the operations of a technical system furnished with the proper inputs; and that this solution is something which can be encoded in public policy, again without distortion.
well, I think this takes things back around to the understanding that @Aerdan already had about upstream's approach here
I find some things about sourcehut very attractive, but even as a dyed-in-the-wool console cowboy who also hates so much of what upstream identifies as HTML email's problem, I'm just not down with upstream's take on it.