This post about Mastodon's failures from @u2764 reads a little weird to me - there are casual mentions of POC, disabled people, other marginalised groups being driven off or discouraged from contributing to Mastodon about the same way as the queer developers that originally started it, but somehow ONLY the queer devs get mourned here? Like they were the most important minority group?
https://medium.com/@alliethehart/gameingers-are-dead-and-so-is-mastodon-705b535ed616
Were there no QPOC, queer disabled, queer + some other identity developers involved in the start of Mastodon? Were there no other non-queer minorities involved in the development of Mastodon? Is their erasure part of the reason Mastodon comes off as being very VERY white?
The "politics needs to be hidden" comment certainly comes off as being very questionable.
Is this (rather bizarre to me) hostility towards discussing politics on Mastodon to the point that ROT13 became some sort of "solution" the reason I got dogpiled to hell my first weekend here after talking about racial dynamics on Mastodon? What was the full story behind this? What sort of culture thinks talking about politics needs to be behind a content warning? Is me talking about the intersections of my life & society in need of a CW because it's political? what the hell?
POC - especially WOC and I see this happen a lot to Black and Indigenous women in particular - get told off for being "too political" just for talking about _the reality of their lives_. And now you want us to put such talk behind a content warning like it's a trigger? Do you know how often us talking about race gets fought back by White people as "omg you talking about racism is too triggering" as though racism doesn't affect OUR mental health? What's the cultural expectation here, geez!
@creatrixtiara is someone demanding you use CW for political talk? that's inappropriate. I support you challenging that. particularly around experiences of oppression.
I use the CW tool, because I want to give people the choice to opt in, when my other posts are lighter. but, if that practice is feeding a culture of silencing voices against racism, sexism, transphobia, etc. I will stop.
In solidarity.
@UnaSpenser no one here has asked me to CW anything just yet, though I have gotten stuff along the lines of "you calling me out on my racism is triggering" elsewhere :\
@creatrixtiara glad to hear no one's pushing for CW.
As for those who cry "triggering", we can let them know that they are gaslighting and using their social power to invisibilize the marginalized experience. 'Cause that's total BS. I have no tolerance for that.
@UnaSpenser well just because no one's asked ME directly doesn't mean no one's pushing for it. People keep telling me "oh it's not anti-racism we want you to CW it's Trump/macro politics" but what I can't get a clear picture on is whether talking about your day-to-day experience that has some intersection with what Trump et al did needs to be CW'd too. It's not like they're completely separate.
@creatrixtiara requiring political posts be CW'd is not helpful to anyone but those whose lives can be lived comfortably without hearing about it.
The personal is political. So, as you say, it would require CW'ing everything to remain apolitical.
A lot of Trump-related stuff is just a blatant exposé of already existing forms of oppression. We all need to face it.
CW should always be an autonomous choice. People can be muted if a user takes issue with content.
