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1. † top dog :pedomustdie: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 14:55:17 JST † top dog :pedomustdie:

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   • Poppy (Kind of a mayor) :neofox_flag_trans:
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   • Poppy (Kind of a mayor) :neofox_flag_trans: (radmin@fedizens.perchinup.top)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 14:55:18 JST Poppy (Kind of a mayor) :neofox_flag_trans:

     There's a lot more to praise Fedi on than this, but one thing that's seriously an improvement over other platforms is that moderation (at least on small and non-tenderqueer instances) fully understands what things like slur reclamation and dogwhistles are. Moderation, in general, needs context in order to decide what one is saying, and that's something only real people could do. A robot can only see "1488" or "All Hail the Merchants' Guild!" as mere numbers and random phrases respectively. A human can see the playfulness of a queer user calling another user "gay." As a result, most notable platforms have never really been able to weed out its worst users (especially since they instead have an incentive to make money), where most complaints of Fedi's moderation are that it's too much.
     
     It's still something to be greatly improved on, though, especially when it comes to our behavior. Mainly, we still guilt others through association (which happened just recently as of writing this (I'll spare you the details this time, and just say that it was complete bullshit)). We have to ensure admins like SuperDicq shouldn't keep getting fucked over for not Fediblocking the same instances they shit on. We have to ensure instances don't do what https://tech.lgbt has done, which was to surrender to the people behind The Bad Space (an unforgiving project that fucked over innocent instances), only for it to get fucked over anyways.