@aral yeah, that is a real problem as we could see with #TheBadSpace and the toxic folks behind it.
I hope @rzeta0 appealed that decision!
@aral yeah, that is a real problem as we could see with #TheBadSpace and the toxic folks behind it.
I hope @rzeta0 appealed that decision!
Excited and happy to announce #TheBadSpace is now available for self-hosted testing. Setup and install deets can be found here: https://koodu.h-i.works/projects/thebadspace
A project map will be available soon that will detail the many features planned for the project, so keep in mind changes will happen often.
This is a significant milestone as the intended purpose for the project was always to allow communities to set up their instances to curate their moderation needs, as a one size fits all approach cannot possibly be nuanced enough to be effective.
Now, it's possible to have customizable, compostable moderation that YOU control.
Thank to everyone that has contributed their time, resources and/or kind words for the project. It all counts.
If you would like to contribute the project, send a DM acknowleding you've read and will follow the Accords, along with a brief description of what you'd like to do.
And as always, TBS is completely funded by the community. No corporate sponsors or VC backers behind the scenes. Just people who want to make a safer internet giving a buck or two. Every donation helps keep pushing this project forward.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-new-way-to-social-media
More updates very soon.
And just to give a bit more context to what Eva is saying here, fedilore is very clear their gripes aren’t even about #TheBadSpace itself, but rather the visibility of Black folks trying to create community safety networks.
Here, they openly admit they’d have no problem with the project if they didn’t have to see it and and if Black folks kept quiet about it in our own circles, as if they own the fedi.
There’s a tenant of white supremacy culture that speaks specifically about white people’s need for comfort and how they try to enforce that in space that quite simply do not belong to them.
There’s zero reason to make this kind of statement unless one is fixated on what Black folks do in the fedi because one doesn’t want to see us here.
They are openly arguing for segregation.
Eva is correct when they call them racist because all their methodology can easily be connected to white supremacist ideology. https://blackqueer.life/@tillshadeisgone/114358608495458766
FYI: #TheBadSpace has a new source instance.
If you run an instance who deferates TBS source instances to protect your users from transphobic harassment, the times right after new instances are added (and before they're noticed) there is often a spike of harassment.
Elbows up. Stay safe.
- rage.love
- queer.group
- indiepocalypse.social
- blackqueer.life
- queer.garden
- mastodon.art
- solarpunk.moe
- colorid.es
- cathode.church
- dair-community.social
If I did bring back PV, it wouldn't be on Mastdon.
Looking back, that was critical mistake I made, but I didn't know it at the time.
And @rwg asked me in one of our interviews if PV would still be around if #TheBadSpace was available back then. At the time, I couldn't answer, but I've been thinking about it ever since.
After months of contemplation, yeah, I think it would have made a difference.
Ok, so I see why Aria has such a beef with me and made a hit piece bringing me up as a hateful person.
It's instance was moderated by a few queer communities via #TheBadSpace because of its constant hateful behavior. And remember this is not my list. Other queer communities have clocked its behavior.
But it's funny how it goes after me, but have nothing to say about the spaces that moderated it's instance, who are mostly white.
See how that works?
As always, I want to point out I don’t know who this is and have never spoken to this person.
This is yet another example of how white queers specifically target Black folks unprovoked while trying to claim to be the victim by leaving out key elements of the narrative that don’t fit their obvious racism and hate.
They always lie about several points.
I never instigate negative exchanges. I respond to harassment.
#TheBadSpace targets bad actors, not identities. If you are on there, that mean you have a history of abusive behavior with other queer communities, not me. My personal blocklist is not part of the dataset. It’s a community tool, not a personal one.
I’ve never taken a dollar from any organization for any of my projects. Places have asked me to consult, but LOL, I have not made over 100k from seedy organizations donating to me. That is a flat out lie.
This video illustrates another brazen racist attempt to protect bigots and further drive Black and Brown folks away from the fedi. They hide behind their queerness, but they erase the contributions of the queer community to quality safety and moderation because they care more about making a digital white ethnostate, not a safer place.
So let’s be very clear about the purpose of this video: to forment more hate to protect hateful people and make the fedi toxic for every that isn’t a bigot.
There’s an expectation in the fedi that anti-racist and safety efforts are supposed to be kind, understanding and unendingly patient even in the face of relentless harassment and abuse.
#TheBadSpace is the most hated project on the fedi in many circles because it gives teeth to the work of effective moderation against hate specifically. It lessens the context of patience that bigots thrive in to spread their abuse by targeting communities with racist behavior designed to antagonize over time to wear people down.
It puts the onus on instances that engage in poor behavior to improve rather than constantly asking vulnerable groups to contort into some unsustainable shape to be treated as human beings.
Ha, and we all know few things send bigots over the edge quicker than applying the context of personal responsibility to them.
#TheBadSpace is a specific point of contention because it’s one of the first systems that gives memory to the fedi, so people can identify who engages in this behavior, whether they be right or left leaning.
TBS is agnostic. It doesn’t care how you identify. It cares about patterns of behavior towards vulnerable communities.
And what it reveals is that many spaces that claim care about safety and equality actually don’t, and only make these claims for the sake of perception or communal harmony or collaboration.
It is attacked relentlessly because it reveals the ugly truth that many places are much more aligned with white supremacy than they will admit.
And as difficult as this is, the fedi will always be viewed as a niche alternative until we develop effective tools to identifying these spaces and give the means to permanently disconnect from them.
@shlee I do hope @iftas took the correct lessions from the whole #TheBadSpace shitshow and excels in #transparebcy and #accountability...
LOL, the anti #TheBadSpace and anti fediblock crowd have apparently made a block subscription list on Bluesky for people that do support those efforts.
They are doing my work for me.
I actually appreciate that.
So being on Bluesky has confirmed #TheBadSpace is exactly what the fediverse needs to progress.
Seeing people create and share their lists for who to block and who to follow is a significant upgrade to the experience that allows communities to decide who and what they want to see.
Compostable moderation was an idea I came up with a couple of years ago and The Bad Space is a proof of concept of that idea. While the fedi has been aggressively resistant to any curation tooling, Bluesky resoundingly proves that it’s a significant feature that people want.
Seeing a version of the spec I wrote concerning a streamlined onboarding process that allowed people to choose their blocklists as they join and methodology for those lists to automatically update in app is a big affirmation for the direction and features I’ve been pushing for in the fediverse.
That’s pretty fucking cool.
Did it take a while? Yes.
Did the process result in a major overhaul of almost every piece of functionality in the project? Also, yes.
But through much trial and tribulation, Beta 3 is finally ready, and it’s a significant upgrade from Beta 2.
The biggest change is the infrastructure was changed from Slim PHP to Laravel to provide a steady and robust base for the project. Now that it has been finalized, the work of adding features can begin, starting with Activity Pub, enabling Fipamo to hop on the fediverse.
This feature will also include safety and moderation options such as importing blocklists from a variety of sources, including #TheBadSpace, being able to make an account truly private and not visible to sources of harm, and using allowlists to curate who is allowed to engage. All of which will be completely customizable, by you, not an admin.
To see all of the changes and updates for Beta 3, go here-> https://fipamo.me/2024/11/fipamo-beta-3.html
And as always, thank you to everyone who has given or said a kind word for either #Fipamo or #TheBadSpace. Both projects are kept alive by the support and generosity of people who just want a better web. To contribute, check this out -> https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-new-way-to-social-media
This release marks a very exciting milestone for Fipamo as it is now in a place where it can grow.
Now it's time to have some fun.
So yeah, when people ask me why I call David a racist, it’s because that’s what they have shown me for going over a year now.
They have shown on multiple occasions they will defend lies that have been debunked about me and my project while aligning themselves and defending people who push those lies.
It does not matter to them that I am still dealing with the backlash that their instance started and still refuse to acknowledge their role in it, even as to go far as denying racism is even a factor for their very clear pattern of behavior and the behavior of the people they align with.
Tech lgbt is not listed on #TheBadSpace because of me because I did not pay any attention to them until they started their hateful campaign against me.
They are listed because other communities have recognized the anti-Blackness that instance constantly displays.
And the posture of that instance is determined by its leader, David, who has shown to have a particular bias toward Black folks in the fedi.
Fin.
@aud It goes back further than because it was a tech lgbt mod started the hate mob against me and #TheBadSpace even after I tried to address their concerns directly. And their admin has never acknowledged their role in the tide of hate that keeps happening based on the lies the mod even admitted were wrong about.
David is upset because people won’t forget this context which is why tech lgbt is listed on TBS. It’s the same reason they brought me up when I wasn’t remotely apart of the conversation.
Bigots HATE consequences for their actions, which could have been avoided with a simple convo.
Vanta showed today how nonsensical the bigot mind works by trying to speak about something they admit to not understanding, but a bit of digging revealed she is cool with a lot of racist tech lgbt folks, which explains her obvious bias.
It’s not about making sense with people like that. They just don’t like Black and Brown folks they can’t intimidate and control.
So they revert to the same methodology of your average kkk member.
Abuse then lie and gaslight.
How #TheBadSpace operates is detailed on the site itself, so anyone can go read it if they are curious. All the info is there.
So if you see someone talking about the project, but they don’t actually link to it, ask them why they don’t.
The answer will make their intentions clear. Guaranteed.
Because it will have nothing to do with making the fedi safer.