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But independent agency is not enough, and will never be enough. "Block and move on" is not enough and will never be enough. Without collective action rooted in trust it will always be easier to automate bad acts than it will be to defend against them, or foster the common good.

Every time a human types out "#fediblock" they are creating evidence that the common good is losing.

Shared blocklists, both individual and instance wide should be automatic and instant.

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2020/03/06/brace-for-impact/

"Another way to say that is: among people or communities who trust each other in these decisions, an act of self-defense becomes, seamlessly and invisibly, an act of collective defense. [...] shields-up means shields-up for everyone. Effective, practical defensive solidarity; it’s the most important new idea I’ve seen in social software in years."

I wrote this in 2020, and all the time I've spent since watching admins burn out and shutter instances saddens me.

It doesn't need to be like this.

I mean no disrespect to the social web foundation, but the list of projects they're listed as tackling (End to end encryption? Long form text?) are... look, they don't matter. The things that are burning out admins and driving minorities - notably black communities - away from "the fedi" aren't wire protocols. It's the fact that the Fediverse has a big fucking racism problem and there's no real way to protect yourself or your friends from it.

Mutualism and solidarity have no verbs here.

@mhoye Hey, so, wonderful stuff. I appreciate the notes. I'm going to address them separately.

@mhoye First, you say that E2EE doesn't matter to anyone. However, my user experience research shows that secure DMs are extremely important to people, and they're one of the main reasons people feel they can't build up real social connections on the Fediverse.

https://evanp.me/2023/05/15/re-designing-the-mastodon-user-interface-for-better-personal-relationships/

@edumerco this article is up your alley and might be interesting to you I think :)

@flancian thanks a lot, muchas gracias.
Definitivamente, mucho confluye hacia el Ekumen. :)
Veo si este finde ordeno eso y lo publicamos. ¿En un wiki lo podemos incorporar al Ágora? :)

@edumerco si te parece podemos empezar un repo

@flancian Sí. :)
Mi único tema es cómo engancharlo a mi proceso usual de trabajo: uso org-mode y puedo integrar un git (con magit) con unos minutos de ayuda.
El tema es q si publico mis archivos en org, deben ser "traducidos" luego a markdown. O podemos hacer q cada vez q se publican, se cree un archivo en markdown y se actualicen todos.
Seguro vos lo resolvés en 1 min. :)