Building Diverse Social Networks
summary
Concrete claims and concrete tools: Dreamwidth works because Dreamwidth is open source and publishes a detailed diversity statement and enforceable guidelines; Tumblr succeeds through tagging and XKit content filters; Twitter’s private-account switch actually quiets harassment; Facebook’s real-name dropdowns and linear privacy model systematically exclude people. Community-built tools like blockbot and gamergate autoblocker exist; a small activist project reports it took $20k to build a near-complete niche network. Notes: muting/blocking, content-warning filters, optional self-identification, and federation are the actionable fixes discussed.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:24Diversity
- 1:44Gender ratios
- 2:30Power structure
- 4:20Dreamwidth
- 5:30Community Guidelines
- 13:29Facebook
- 18:12Twitter
- 19:15Tumblr
- 23:21Content Filtering
- 28:43Open Source
- 30:13Challenges
- 33:43Possible Solutions
- 39:43What We Are Doing
- 41:18kappastreammaker
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