cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/15541577
The extension shingami eyes is back.
Quick context: the extension allows you to see which profiles are supportive or transphobic and it wasn’t updated for 2 years.
I was worried it was abandoned. Hopefully we can get Ecosia and Lemmy supported and have it expanded it to cover racist/sexist profiles soon. I would like to donate to developer if I could.
It is my favourite Firefox extension because it would protect you from seeing all the hate online and prevent unintentionally supporting a slimy transphobe😡 and it quite literally revealed to you people’s true colours.
2/10/2024
*support for blue sky *updated bloom filter *Fix colonization of Tumblr tags
cholesterol@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This seems like a dystopic tool for exerting social control. Better not step outside the lines, or the algorithm will make you the wrong color. Will this comment itself turn me red?
PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
It’s a reporting system used by the community. It’s no different from getting banned by being toxic on the internet.
Free speech doesn’t give others the right to put vulnerable people closer to genocide.
gian@lemmy.grys.it 10 months ago
You know what ? I have absolutely no faith in the community when these arguments are discussed. I’ve seen too many often people labelled as “transphobic” or “nazist” by someone just because they were not agreeing with something or had different ideas.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It is different, in that this doesn’t even mean anyone. It’s little different from just a group chat where people yell reach other “hey, this chick is a terf, you might wanna block her”
cholesterol@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you have the ability, please flag me red in your system.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
My understanding is that it’s rather strict. You basically have to explicitly be transphobic, saying shit like “you will never be a woman” or “trans is just a fetish.” They don’t tag someone as harmful unless they actually say harmful things.
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
IDK, I feel like I still feel like I don’t agree with this approach. In fact, the entire name about “shinigami eyes” makes me think it’s inspired by Death Note, an anime about a guy with a twisted and wrong sense of justice, using shinigami powers to kill people he thinks are bad.
E.g.
I think if we want to change people for the better, than means talking with them, interacting with them, and helping them to change.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I’d be interested in seeing this kind of setup - where volunteers tag others’ speech and account - actually work. So often, nearly all of the time, I’ve seen it used as political tools in small squabbles; totally inappropriate usage, and it’s hard to get those proverbial scarlet letters removed. I can only wish them the best.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
I wouldn’t trust it because so many people in the trans community tend to fly off the handle at any perceived slight against them. Can’t even ask them questions without being accused of acting in bad faith.
gaifux@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Interesting. Saying the truth is harmful sometimes. Would love to have seen Jesus’ tags
chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
the internet is just stuff on various computers, most of which are privately owned - imagine someone complaining that their free speech rights override your right to control your property, because you took down a note stuck to your door. “dystopic tool for social control” dude go meet your neighbors and make some connections that matter instead of worrying about forcing yourself onto as many strangers’ screens as possible. so fuckin dramatic.
cholesterol@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I am fine with anyone blocking me. I absolutely agree that doesn’t somehow ‘infringe on my free speech’ or whatever. My concern was about self censorship, social pressures, enforcing taboo within communities that would use tools such as this. I think the real victims of labelling ‘good’ and ‘bad’ people by color will end up being the members of the very communities that embrace this kind of idea. It does absolutely remind me of an episode of Black Mirror. I think it’s a very ‘dark path’ kind of thing, whether people might find that dramatic or not.
“go meet your neighbors and make some connections that matter” - is pretty condescending. My neighbours are nice. Danish woman and a Polish guy. But then again, I can’t see their ‘color’, so who really knows.