I think it's super important that we realize that Mastodon isn't "the next Twitter / Tumblr / whatever". It's not there yet. I was on the ground floor when people were "migrating" to Google Plus, and that went so horribly because we all thought it was gonna kill Facebook tomorrow.
We won't kill *anything* unless we make this a place people want to come to by 1) keeping all oppressors out and 2) making good community / context / posts
@ben_c Trying to keep *all* oppressors our is a fool’s errand: see all the admin discourse that goes on every month or so (half the time it’s two people accusing of being the oppressor of the other)
@ben_c That's a good choice. I seem to notice that Nazis and right-wing nuts go after groups of people to oppress and they simply do not care about the humanity of the individuals who are in the groups they hate.
Leftist oppression is much more personally targeted, and they would consider their own actions abhorrent if they oppressed the wrong person.
@ben_c If I ever do start my MLP roleplay instance, I'm going to make it kayfabe and have a reminder that the one Nazi pony the chan half of the fandom loves is banished from my realm for extremely good reasons.
@USBloveDog I get that it will never be complete, but it's got to be the goal. Deeply considering starting an instance or joining a smaller instance specifically so that I know if some Nazi (or similar) shit happens I know I can have some say in blocking users or instances acting in bad faith.