@atomicpoet I think whatever we become we'll really only have 'succeeded' if #Calckey leads the way with #FediverseSafety ahead of features and scale.
The Calckey I see would
have a diverse team of folks that has the time to listen to the safety discourses, and the lived experience to know why safety matters, and informs their #development decisions.
make importing #blocklists or integrating third party #moderation tools easypeasy, so no user finds themselves on an new server that's open to dogpiled by the worst elements of the #Fediverse.
have granular user controls for #safety - opt-in & opt-out; and features - like turning down/off MFM when it's overwhelming without a user needing to resort to CSS scripts.
not really care to be a birdsite or #Mastodon alternative. Let's work to be a better secret third thing, or fourth, or fifth thing.
If we really have to duplicate the big influencer account thing, I'd like to see more non-White, autistic, disabled, queers, and women voices. They're here, but they're often forced to be critics of a newer hegemony. Let's be listening for how can Calckey become the main service of choice for Black, POC and Indigenous women to join, spin up servers, become developers, and have prominent voices on. The rest of the good stuff will follow that.
I think we can do that, but only if we prioritise, and promote minority voices, and do the structural work to support them coming to the service.
@jo I don’t know if you saw this, but we had a big conversation about accessibility and safety today, and I believe some progress was made.
That said, I also believe that with mastodon.social becoming a possible centralizing force for Mastodon, there needs to be something to cause the Fediverse-at-large to change course.
@jo@atomicpoet If you have minorities forefront of your design and community moderation, you’ll get more adoption. There is nothing you can do about keeping all the influencers away. You just have to make communities that serve everybody.
@atomicpoet Maybe qualify that with 1987 on the court Rodman or also just not? I wouldn't want to be analogous to an unhinged, wealthy, petty, egotistical bootlicker...
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