If you're a white person on the Fediverse and you've never seen someone called a slur, or threats made against them--congratulations!

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@MxAlba @Rhube @dave Only if the public message has a reply control preventing that. In which case if you really want to reference it in a DM you can just include a link or quote (if quoting permission allows that).

[flesh@transfem.social]

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io @pierrenick@hachyderm.io @dave@alvarado.social Well, that's less bad than first expected.
I still don't think such tools are entirely abuse-proof.
And do you have any evidence that such potential abuse positively doesn't matter other than "I haven't noticed it"?

[kevinrns@mstdn.social]

@dave

No, using reporting. To mods. Its not public. I dont understand.

[kevinrns@mstdn.social]

@dave

But mods can see all the posts, and reporting is not public.

[dave@alvarado.social]

@kevinrns ah. Reporting to mods is not what I'm describing in that second example. I'm talking about posting screenshots to prove to people that harassment is happening.

Reporting to mods doesn't stop harassment because most harassment is from sock puppet accounts.

[anne_delong@musician.social]

@MxAlba @fishidwardrobe @dave

That sounds sensible.

[mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl]

@shlee @dave

>Followers only should be your curated, locked down followers list, but also everyone following the one person you’ve mentioned that doesn’t moderate their followers at all.

This would be absolutely disastrous for user safety.

[xdej@mamot.fr]

@fishidwardrobe
Mastodon client app makers can also add that setting on their app, @apps @Tusky which would be useful if mastodon dev dismiss the problem.

@julesbl @dave

[aaidanbird@disabled.social]

@dave

@flippac i shared ages ago how this happens with folks targeting trans and/or disabled folks and/ or BIPOC, and all it did was jumpstart more harassment and nothing changed. some servers still don't give a fuck so reporting doesn't work either.

[dragonfi@social.jsteuernagel.de]

@dave So, you say that followers only does not extend to followers of "@"-ed people? This sounds like a bug to me.