Breaking the law of silence about the mental health crisis in Queer Fedi, and the Tech Mastodon clique that makes it so miserable.

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This is a very long post, so I imagine few will read it (fair enough), but I felt it added significant value to fediverse discourse and haven’t seen it around, so here it is.

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edit (much later): nobody will read this but editing to add additional useful context seems like the right thing to do, so anyway:

this issue in general (not just this specific post) has continued to bounce around a bit, and so I’ve done incrementally more digging as time has gone on. I still don’t have much to go on for a lot of the accusations, but as for the block list itself, someone from Nivenly said this:

But anyone can look at the version control history: TBS accidentally shipped a union of blocklists instead of an intersection, which unintentionally blocked some 80% (or thereabouts) of the Fediverse. A queer person noticed, panicked, and thought it targeted queer spaces—but they later issued a public retraction when they realized: it was all spaces. Not just queer ones. Ro fixed the issue at the time. Years ago.

this link was provided as evidence: https://koodu.h-i.works/projects/thebadspace/commit/572f7c50274f5bdc22fcb947d37824c3de213af2