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@sonya unfortunately software features can help a lot but won't alone impede manifestations of abuse or nastiness. people who won't respect others will always find a way, this is something that can be only counter-acted at the community level, beyond the technology. and this is what ultimately makes the difference between platforms/instances which are otherwise equivalently valuable on the software level imo.
@sonya yes this appears to be a feature which could be very valuable to converge to, for the different front ends. every tool that aims to minimize potential harms and protect vulnerable users is useful. much more would be needed but it seems like a good start.
@sonya if this is your feeling I won't try further to change your mind, unfollow is the way to go I guess. also there are places in the fediverse where most users seem much more aligned to your perspective, and the software layer allows a wide range of tastes/flavours/customizations at this point.
@sonya a thread on the use of cws I can suggest (with clearer explanation than mine) is this one https://hex.bz/@beezyal/99965592592952742
@sonya I thought that putting them as a style/cultural custom could be a starting point for you to approach them. coming from a position where one has the luck of not being triggered by certain content, one can see them as taglines, or introductions, a way to expose posts to the timelines with elegance and tact instead of just dropping them. and they'll make all the difference for people who are instead triggered by specific things.
@sonya I say this to try introducing the perspective of why they appear to be so valuable and interesting for many people, myself included. when I switched to mastodon from twitter at first it sounded weird to me too to see cw used widely, even for things entirely innocent, or even for good puns and jokes. it took some time to understand why they are important and appreciate their use beyond the strict scope of universally agreed-upon cws.
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@kibi @KitRedgrave same.. still better to cope with this than with 05 Hours 44 Mins of daylight at winter solstice here lol
The Dangers of Facial Analysis
By Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/opinion/facial-analysis-technology-bias.html
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New blog post: When Visual Chatbot is wrong, it just keeps digging itself a hole.
Visual Chatbot is so much fun.
http://aiweirdness.com/post/175110257767/the-visual-chatbot
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@kaniini @sonya @lain @cwebber @pea @phoe it's not my place to delve into specific examples, and I wasn't referring necessarily to just one developer, I instead wanted to point out that for a social media platform to be inclusive and attractive to a wide community the software itself is not enough, it takes a lot of effort and it needs input from multiple cultural fronts
@kaniini @phoe @pea @cwebber @lain @sonya it's good to hear, but also what is 'serious' depends a lot on cultural frameworks and it can be perceived differently depending on different privilege levels of the regarding angle. to put it simply, what's joke for somebody can turn out to be humiliation for others
@kaniini sure research is always useful, and it's worth exploring techniques to assist moderators, with the caveat, in this case, that even the best sentiment analysis would fail to recognize some types of trolling behavior, and some kinds of indirect subtle harassment
