@farooqkz

Agreed, needs a comma, ill add it... Try to save your bigger edits though for git so anything controversial can be discussed.

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Can't find the link to git

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Didnt quite post it yet. Soon

@JoshuaACasey

That is worth a debate once it goes to git. I agree that sex workers should not be shamed. If they wish to show pictures of themselves that arent nude they are welcome to do so. But at the same time most people dont want nudity in their feed, especially when they view it in public spaces. It isnt about the sex workers or if their work is shameful or not, its more about nudity showing up on peoples screen at work or other places where it will get people fired.

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this is kinda a non-issue because there are already MRFs to force censor instances and users if that's what the locals want.

@icedquinn

Yes we could potentially handle this by having a shared list of instances that allow nudity in plain site.. users can then choose to adopt that block list if they want.

The problem with this approach is that it forces users to either block nudity entierly, or allow it in plain view. In the end I think this will harm people who wish to share nudity since it will force people to block them even if they want to see it some of the time. By requiring a CW instead these people will get more exposure since users can choose to uncover the CW or not and thus arent forced to take an all-or-nothing approach.

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@icedquinn

I need to check the mod tools on mastodon... you might be right. I've only seen blocking all media, and ive been able to make media senative from an individual user... gotta see hwo we do that on an instance level... worth discussing.. lets try to leave that to GIT once its posted.

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@dashrandom

Would you like to be added to the list so you can get notified when i post it on GIT and you can join the discussion?

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Quick thought. I just ran out and bought the following two domains for this:

UnitedFederationOfInstances (both .com and .org)

and

UFoI.org

Perhaps we should move the hashtag to #UFoI instead? Thoughts.

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From a branding perspective, makes sense to move the hashtag for uniformity

@sozialwelten

At qoto we have a much higher character count, some other instances have it as well. That said you are welcome to wait till its on GIT where you have more characters as well, up to you.

As for those who are against the idea and wish to protest it by being silent, thats up to them. Either it will hurt their cause because they wont get a voice, or it will have their intended effect... But we cant account for people who refuse to speak.

@skanman @floppy @john @stevenclyman

@sozialwelten well a silent majority can be given opportunities via polling right?

Creating a group sounds like a good idea (was going to bring up the QOTO group server again soon which has better tools than gup.pe).

That said I think using the hashtag #UFI or #UFOI will do better for comms here. Plus once its on GIT maintaining a list here will be less critical and I think the hashtag and/or group will cover that well.

So yea, agreed basically

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We should probably decide if it should be

@ufi

or

@ufoi

the latter lining up with the domain name (which i will donate to the group and not take control of).

@floppy
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@freemo ufoi

@realcaseyrollins

Someone called it the first digital constitituion :) That got me excited. Plus everyone of these people were really heklpful with feedback, so we got some good heads on this.

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"This is a revolution, dammit! We're going to have to offend SOMEbody!" John Adams, 1776

@supernovae

I totally agree with you.

See this revision of the abstract a user proposed. I think it is much better, in line with your concerns, and I approve of it myself.

https://gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution/-/issues/2

Please feel free to offer your own suggestions and throw in a merge request with your changes. Ill be happy to make the change once there is some discussion as to the best version.

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@supernovae

For my part, My current finances are in the position of "I have no idea what an extended family situation is going to cost me personally yet."

If I could, I'd run the current document through Grammarly's paid subscription and have it make suggested changes for exactly that... "passive vs. active" tone, various other changes based on a "business proposal" setting. I *think* it has one like that. Maybe. I simply can't do it, and I could only hope someone on this list is already paying for Grammarly (or a product like it) already so it isn't an extra expense to them.

*I* don't write proposals of any sort as a profession. But I'm confident someone has a meat-grinder for it while we work on making this sausage.

@friday

Sounds like if we had the same intent you should just join us and propose edits.. We would love to hear your ideas. The Gitlab is up so just hop on in and create any issues or merge requests and we will all discuss it.

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Sounds good, will take a look.

@antonioserrata

You should throw in your two cents if your interested.

We already have 4 discussions and one edit going here (you can jump in too):

https://gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution

the repo is set up so any edits done update the pdf life now, which is here:

https://ufoi.gitlab.io/constitution/united_federation_of_instances_proposal.pdf

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Will do. I'm still reading through it. Certainly VERY interesting. I appreciate the outreach.

@antonioserrata

Thanksm, looking forward to har your feedback.

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@freemo I have "Git GUI Here" installed, but I usually use "Git BASH" for updating Spigot. Yay, the time when I know what something does and how it works, but I get to figure out how to use it practically on some other project!

@bonifartius

I agree.. the proposal is meant to summarize the basic jist of it.. the bylaws document and Code of Ethics/Conduct documetn I write seperately will be much more detailed. I also agree the wording is very critical to strike a balance between justice and freedom.

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@freemo At the moment I'm flailing, but I'm not yet in a position to edit and I want to get this thing out of my head: "... communicating disrespect targeting a person's identity rather than their character. This behavior would often be characterized as (but not limited to) racism, sexism... (extend definitive list, avoid "hate speech" as a phrase.. and again "including but not limited to" is a wonderful phrase to use.)

TRUST ME, when I interact with flat earthers, I get mighty cranky and I'm sure they could label it as "hate speech." But I'm clearly not attacking their identity, just their bloody-minded stupidity.

@Romaq Can you at least crete and issue ther eand just copy and paste it in, this way we keep it.

@freemo Yeah, I just need to get moving to recover from work. Gawd this thing keeps moving and I want to follow what's going on while I'm doing what I really ought to be doing instead.

@freemo I now have the git repository local. The Git GUI doesn't show me branches and changes, so I did it wrong. OF COURSE. But that's ok, my opportunity to learn, and being able to see changes would be more useful, I'd think. I'll post my message where the issue is already being discussed if there is anything it would contribute at that point.

@freemo AND I deleted the local copy as it didn't show me anything of what has currently been changed, so I'm not clear it will do what I intended and I didn't want a "this doesn't work" project folder where I've begun putting Mastodon stuff.

I'll figure out what I need to know in due course.

There's a discussion on the hate language on https://gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution/-/issues/1 -- You should definitely post any ideas there so that it all gets considered.

@Ryle Thank you. I missed seeing this before I posted a suggestion about it, but I was intent I not lose the thought I had at that moment. My current situation has me hella distracted to where I'm setting alarms for myself so I don't miss going to the loo when I need to.

I'll jump in there once I've shed my work funk off.

@Romaq @Romaq @Ryle And there's the rub. "Hate speech" is a meaningless term. ANY speech is hate speech to somebody. So if you ban it, you can't say ANYTHING. It mostly bans talk about the middle of the bell curve. There ARE statistical differences between people, and many of them correlate with group membership. But the standard deviation is usually large, hence general statements are only useful if you don't have time to consider individuals. When walking home late at night in a bad part of town, that kind of thinking is useful, life-saving even. In a normal safe environment, not so much.

It is a silly word. Hate speech had a very clear legal definition, but it has since been used for political benefit by those controlling a narrative. They use genocide selectively, too. The same as ‘war crime’. Others are ‘hate crime’ or ‘gender based violence’. They are useful if a definition is agreed upon, but that never happens.

What is the desperate need for a code and censorship, anyway? We all behave differently. We have different things we hate to hear. That’s why we can choose with whom we associate. Pretending we all agree that words are harmful, then continuing to reach some code as to what can be said and how, must have some other motive.