@steeliestllama bottitytto @ social.mashek.net

Just doing more of that "PRIVATE BLOCKLISTS ARE MORALLY WRONG" thing, and then when I asked what prompted it, they just said something about the coding in Masto and I just mentioned that if someone was going to do that, that it wouldn't stop them by hearing -everyone- with that take.

So they suggested I didn't bother with it, so I blocked them. Tired of it being RT'd into my feed haha

@spiderrobotpig ah that seems weird like blocklists are gonna happen anyway

@steeliestllama Yeah, and everyone we know of is being super open about who is being blocked and why they're being blocked.

We don't understand the uproar about this all of the sudden tbh

@steeliestllama @spiderrobotpig I'd argue they *need* to.

@sendoshin @steeliestllama Oh yeah, that's why we had to block Trev and Shel. Definitely on the "instance blocklists are good, actually" side

@spiderrobotpig wait those two aren't on that side?

@steeliestllama *shrug*

They kept shit talking twitter refugees and Shel made a rant that was too "hug it out with the nazis" for our taste.

Maybe we read into it too much, but blocking them helped my MH, so *shrug*

@spiderrobotpig I think I saw that rant that wasn't too long after you were interacting with them I think??
idk memory is fuzzy

@steeliestllama Yeah, we're like 95% both of them were subtooting us too which is another reason we blocked them.

Don't got time for that

@spiderrobotpig who does tbf

like fine you wanna talk to the nazis or whoever, but the problem with that is that a lot of people think it's required, a lot of people will think it's a thing you SHOULD do and yell at those who don't
a lot of nazis etc don't care if you talk to them nicely they'll still think what they think

@steeliestllama Yah the thread was garbage.

Like "I WAS A SHITTY LIBERTARIAN BUT NOW I'M NOT AND I'VE MADE PEOPLE NOT SHITTY LIBERTARIANS"

Cool?

We don't have to tho

@spiderrobotpig idk why they were talking about that tbh?
like, good for you?

@steeliestllama Yeah, exactly.

Good for them, but we don't need to be in that position.

Then Trev told me to contact through email, and after that Trev sent out a message that was like

"My new favorite Masto users are people from twitter with preconcieved biases about groups of people and want us to change things."

Like, fuck them

@spiderrobotpig PRECONCEIVED BIASES AGAINST NAZIS??
I think MOST people have those against NAZIS??
jfc that makes me angry
gotta love when mods or whatever subtoot because that's lovely

@steeliestllama We're gonna go ahead and assume it's not -specifically- nazis, and just shitty white people tbf

If only because Mastodon.social has "No fucking nazis" on the door.

But, in any case, it's fucking rude and I just blocked them

@spiderrobotpig well Nazis and any shitty groups of people
considering the fact that masto developers and mods are mostly WHITE PEOPLE they don't have a leg to stand on really do they, not when it comes to shitty white people

@steeliestllama Which is what we've been mentioning, and why we've had FOSSbros in our mentions, and that whole BS with shitposter.club.

Like, just listen instead of being dicks, or you're literally just proving our point

@spiderrobotpig pretty sure Shel (at one point) was saying something along the lines of, "stop asking us to add diversity to the team WE'RE HERE" and I wanted to reply with, yeah but how many PoC do you have because otherwise you aren't that diverse tbh

@steeliestllama Yeah, there was a nicer variant of that said to us.

"There are a lot of LGBT and furries here"

@spiderrobotpig I wanna be like, that isn't as diverse as you think it is, whenever I see a variation of that

I also know that if more PoC as developers/mods were added this platform would be hella more appealing to people

@steeliestllama Which also was said by me, which was shot down with:

"IT'S OPEN SOURCE THEY CAN CODE IT" which was entirely missing the point, and of course, a symphony of white people

@spiderrobotpig oh dear god

can white people stop defending whiteness and other white people plz thank

it isn't that hard for the developers/mods to ASK PoC to come in and help, considering there are plenty of people who could help?

@steeliestllama *drumroll please*

Thank you.

Or just have MODERATORS THAT ARE POC OMG

THERE ARE INSTANCES WITH MODERATORS

@spiderrobotpig they're probably not asking because it's not a priority to them

@steeliestllama ((It's because they're white))

@spiderrobotpig ((I know))

@steeliestllama ((We know cos you're a good))

@steeliestllama @spiderrobotpig ((*more sobbing*))

@spiderrobotpig @steeliestllama Shit like that makes me feel dirty just for existing - as about the palest kind of white person you can be: a ginger. :sob:

@sendoshin @steeliestllama I'm ridiculously white tbf.

But yeah, it makes us cringe as a white person, so I can't imagine it as a PoC or black person

@sendoshin definitely