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1. Rachel Luxemburg 🪬 (rlux@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 19:06:54 JST Rachel Luxemburg 🪬

   So here's what makes me nervous about the Fediverse: Over the weekend, two admins had a disagreement & defederated their servers. They then resolved their differences and refederated.

   Only problem is, all follows across those two servers were broken and people now need to recreate them manually. And depending on whether or not they were following the drama, they may not even know why it happened.

   This is, in a word, bad. It puts a burden on users for something that was out of their control.

   • tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 19:06:50 JST tyil

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     • mikol

     @nisemikol@blahaj.zone @rlux@hachyderm.io This may be the most stupid post in the thread. You genuinely believe that only "cis-het white guys" are able to abuse power, which is downright retarded at best. Diversity in looks doesn't mean squat, all the groups you described are still just human beings, and they are all just as corruptible when given a large amount of power.
     
     Don't give them the power to corrupt themselves with, support a Fediverse in the way it's meant to be: lots and lots of small servers where people can trust one another, rather than a handful of super instances where the users just get hurt by the power plays of dumb admins.

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   • mikol (nisemikol@blahaj.zone)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 19:06:53 JST mikol

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     @rlux@hachyderm.io absolutely 💯
     
     I'm not going to make the argument that people "should just move" to another server, because that again puts the onus on users; however, I will note that the problem in this case—as it is in many cases, with many of the world's problems—stems from cis-het white guys in positions of power. Think of politicians in most of the world's superpowers, most billionaires and tech CEOs: a bunch of cis-het white guys on psychotic power trips fucking things up for the rest of the world.
     
     What the Fediverse needs—and, indeed, what the world needs—is more women, more black, brown, queer, and trans persons in leadership positions. In a nicer world, that would happen with these cis-het white guys doing some self-reflection and then ceding power when they realize that they have been the problem all along; but that's not the world we live in, so we're going to have to force these entitled dudes out in order to make space for voices that have too long been silenced, space for the marginalized and the oppressed to show us a better way forward.
     
     So while I don't think it's every Fedizen's responsibility to move, I do think that those of us who can should move to instances run by people other than white tech bros, and support those instance admins in whatever way we can.

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