Wheaton incident and Mastodon tools (~)
@maxinered From what I gathered without actually following it at all, the thing people were upset about was that a big name person used their platform to promote a blocklist that blanket blocks trans people, which I can certainly understand being upset by.
Wheaton incident and Mastodon tools (~)
@ulvra @maxinered@queer.party I looked into it out of curiosity and from what I can tell the maintainer of that blocklist is dishonest about what it actually contains (advertised as "99.9% abusive MRAs and Gators") and that seems to be the real problem here, not any bad intent on Wheaton's part.
Wheaton incident and Mastodon tools (~)
@NovaSquirrel
@maxinered
Aye that's fair then. Blocklists have been found to have similar problems since they started to be a thing. I stopped using them myself because I could not trust them, but new and inexperienced people will still fall for the promises.