Submitted 3 days ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to fediverse@lemmy.world
https://aria.dog/barks/ethics-in-transgenderism/
Breaking the law of silence about the mental health crisis in Queer Fedi, and the Tech Mastodon clique that makes it so miserable.
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.
I’m about halfway through.
I didn’t realize Mastodon was big enough for so much fucking drama.
Hmm, Mentally Ill people are mentally ill Who knew
wtf is this
This is a lot of the problem that I see with social media as a whole. Doesn’t matter if it’s the fediverse or regular corporate social media platforms. The problem is users in echo chambers spouting a lot of things that don’t ever take into account the whole situation.
The “anyone who naysays anything I believe or say” crowd is alive and well on both sides of the political aisle and they use the same tactics.
-Anyone who has a logical problem with something I’m trying to do is a Nazi or a sealion.
-Anyone “who didn’t vote because they have a moral reason to abstain to show the political party that it’s not good enough to just not be the other guy anymore” is a Trump supporter or a vote for Trump.
What I’m saying is, it’s not just the transgender community seeing these problems and the problem is people on social media as a whole existing only in echo chambers.
The thing is, echo chambers are natural but they’re also divisive. The people that exist in them peer pressure each other and subvert every narrative, pitting people who are nominally on the same side against one another because they don’t happen to agree on one or two issues, or don’t agree on how to effect real change. And anyone who admits that there are problems that need to be fixed before we can move forward, or education that needs to happen in order for everybody to get on the same page and work towards a common goal gets alienated or excommunicated.
Believe it or not, this happens in every single community. And while I think it’s good that baseless reports were ignored in this instance, I don’t know that 1. This is happening everywhere, and 2. Every report is baseless just because you happen to be on the side of the person who the reports are against.
The fact that baseless reports were not acknowledged or verified in the other instance is exactly the problem. Because the problem is people. So on the one hand, you have a homeless person being harassed for their politics because their real.life experience negates the feeling some people in the platform have and those people reported her for it. And on the other hand you have a deranged individual actively weaponizinf the report button in order to harass someone with intent and their reports are at best being phoned in by admins and mods who cannot keep up with the influx, and at worst are being views partially rather than impartially and allowed to victimize the user that was targeted, which was the intent.
The cognitive dissonance is happening on both sides of the aisle, and even though the way it manifests is absolutely different in some ways, the fact is, it is happening and it’s a deteiment to any movement that organizes or attempts to organize.
Whoah
PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Everyone involved in this, author included, seems to be batshit insane except for Eris?