Cobalt is a user on weirder.earth. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.

This is the last thing I'm going to say on that place:

Black people, women, trans people, and disabled people should not have to hide ourselves to avoid harassment.

If you don't want us blocking and avoiding your nazi-land en masse, if you don't want your software to be associated with nazis, come up with ways to stop the nazis from harassing us rather than crying TO US about your precious software.

Give us some confidence in your software's ability to not be abused by nazis. Duh.

Cobalt @Cobalt

@guerrillablack Big mood @ basically every dev I've crossed paths with even briefly.

Why isn't adjusting for harassment and other abuse part of stress-testing a project? Why isn't proofing it against these misuses a part of COMPLETING a release?

(Rhetorical, obv. Abuse = ✨engagement✨ so abuse targets are just... the assumed price of a monetizeable startup.)