Just admiring these bathing beauties taking advantage of this afternoon's reprieve from the relentless rain. As soon as the rain cleared they emerged from the shadowy woods, the sunlight reflecting off their white feathers adding a sort of majesty to their appearance, like Aphrodite stepping off the scallop shell in the sea foam (if Aphrodite were a noisy clownish parrot with the grace and elegance of a toddler in a feather suit).
Something I've been thinking about wrt safety on the fediverse is knowledge aggregation tools. The Bad Space is one such tool that looks to provide a reputation system for the fediverse.
I don't think I'm the first to talk about this idea, but in many safety systems there are means for moderators to collect knowledge about both reporters and the reportees into a ticket like system that allows new moderators to quickly get up speed when processing a report so they know the history of the actors, perhaps even being able to see screenshot receipts and more. And further, it allows seasoned moderators to reduce their cognitive load by reducing the amount of knowledge they need to retain and communicate. The case for adopting this is clear: community oriented approaches require knowledge sharing, otherwise every moderator is left doing adhoc aggregation, learning in isolation, or in closed systems like discord or matrix where finding older knowledge is very difficult.
To my knowledge such a system does not exist natively in any fediverse software. Though it's worth noting that mastodon's interface is certainly more sophisticated than misskey derivatives like firefish that spookygirl runs. Caveat: I have not done an exhaustive analysis, so I'd like to hear about systems that do!
Some mastodon servers use the webhooks provided to bridge to ticket systems like github in order to fill this gap. Unfortunately, this approach is technically challenging for many small server operators, expands the scope of the what needs to be installed and maintained, and divorces the moderation flow from the context of the actual actions. Nor do such approaches allow that knowledge to be readily shared amongst trusted servers.
The reason to integrate this into the core of various fediverse platforms is that when you give people tools out of the box you implicitly demonstrate the value of the approach the tooling takes, and inspiring new ideas on how to improve. Sometimes you need to experience an idea before you can even see the possibilities.
Of course, no tool is without flaws, and this one is subject to poisoning if a trusted server turns out to be a bad actor, and additionally not all moderators will understand why they want to write down what they know or even why they'd want to share what they know. There is no complete technical solution to these problem. Reputation systems can provide some support in helping server operators decide whether or not to trust another server, and UX can help explain the value, but ultimately culture building is how we grow our safety discipline.
If you got this far, thanks for reading and I would love to hear your thoughts.
For a large part of my life I had this deeply closeted non-binary conception about myself, until a bit after turning 30 when I did what I today recognise as transitioning to male.
At some point I asked out loud whether that experience could count as transmasculine or not, and the only replies I got (as far as I remember) were negative.
But then there's also people who were AFAB that align with the transfeminine label. And supposedly, the transfem and transmasc identities aren't AGAB exclusive even if you're perisex.
So I kind of wonder sometimes. Is there a gendered difference here?
@jasmine The best way to think about labels is to ask yourself whether it's a useful label to you. Does it help you navigate the world or does it help you understand and relate to your personal experiences? If the answer is yes, then the label is the right label, and what other people think doesn't come in to it.
Which is to say, if framing that experience as a trans masculine experience helps you in some way, then that's the bit that matters...
@jasmine That's part of the helping you navigate the world. If you use a label that just confuses everyone and angers everyone, it's less likely to help you navigate the world. Maybe that means it's the wrong label? Maybe it means that it's the right label anyway, because it has meaning to you.
Literally the only person who can answer that is you, and it's based both on navigating the external world via the shared language we all use and your internal experiences
@sky I want to love neochat and fractal, but I can't handle neochats lack of notifications for spaces (only rooms) and I can't handle fractals lack of spaces! I'm in too many rooms to lump them all together.
I'd jump on either of them if I could navigate my number of spaces and channels more effectively!