A small group of people were offended by a joke that unintentionally came across transphobic, and as a result this persons account was blacklisted. Even after getting the account reinstated, there were lasting complications with the state of the account (these probably technical issues) and the account was basically lost for...
I mean, it was never “in favor”; as far as I know, it had always been a slur
I can’t see how OP was “failed by moderation”; I assume the instance they were on had a zero tolerance policy for such language, and honestly someone with a blog on the internet that had a twitter account probably should have known that that word was a slur and still is
maybe they’ll realize why they got banned and figure out that “jokes” like that aren’t tolerable, but with how they reacted here I don’t know
imo, I can totally understand parts of the trans community not wanting to have to teach people to respect them (people not respecting you as a person by default fucking sucks, and it’s understandable that you’d find it not worth your energy and fucking ridiculous that you have to teach people that you’re a person)
so, I can see why OP got immediately banned, especially since they legit said a slur in a shit joke that, with said slur, could have come off as weirdly fetishizing; many people in marginalized communities don’t really like having to go through someone’s post that comes off bigoted to “figure out if they meant to say something bigoted on purpose or in a bad way” for obvious reasons
hopefully OP realized why they blacklisted them so quickly
apart from the fact that this is 6 years old , this reads like someone who didn’t understand federation and just wanted and expected the same experience as non-federated sites
like he says that the fundamental point of the platform is a flaw that needs to be rectified (read, ‘centralized’)
also a complaint he had was that it didn’t have celebrities on it, and considered this (and it not having a big userbase at the time) a flaw
I think he was looking at it as “the thing that wants to compete with/ replace Twitter”
An interesting case of moderation in the fediverse ( blog.ownlifeful.com )
A small group of people were offended by a joke that unintentionally came across transphobic, and as a result this persons account was blacklisted. Even after getting the account reinstated, there were lasting complications with the state of the account (these probably technical issues) and the account was basically lost for...
Six reasons Mastodon won't survive ( mashable.com )
The hot new thing in social media has some big problems.