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blakeley h. payne

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fat liberation now | phd-ing @ CU Boulder Information Science | previously AI + ethics @ MIT, Math + CS @ UofSC | she/her 🏳️‍🌈

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blakeley h. payne @blakeley@hci.social

· 24mo ago

🌟 New paper alert! 🪩

Our paper “Building Solidarity Amid Hostility: Experiences of Fat People in Online Communities” is out and will be presented at GROUP ‘25!

So much care from @jordant@hci.social, @katta@hci.social, @cfiesler@hci.social, and I went into it! 💜

Read it here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04614

arXiv.org

Building Solidarity Amid Hostility: Experiences of Fat People in Online Communities

Online communities are important spaces for members of marginalized groups to organize and support one another. To better understand the experiences of fat people -- a group whose marginalization often goes unrecognized -- in online communities, we conducted 12 semi-structured interviews with fat people. Our participants leveraged online communities to engage in consciousness raising around fat identity, learning to locate "the problem of being fat" not within themselves or their own bodies but

blakeley h. payne @blakeley@hci.social

· 47mo ago

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It seems like a cool, or perhaps *the* cool thing, about mastodon is the ability for different communities to set different norms and cultures. I am deeply interested in these conversations and how we create a space that considers the most vulnerable "in the room," so to speak. But I have no idea if or where these conversations are happening.

blakeley h. payne @blakeley@hci.social

· 47mo ago

Okay I have two questions that I can't seem to find answers to, which are: (1) is it possible to see who the moderators are on our instance?, and (2) what happens after you report a toot?

Sorry if this has been discussed before, those discussions don't seem very searchable. And all I can find online are "future feature" discussions on github. #contentmoderation

blakeley h. payne @blakeley@hci.social

· 47mo ago

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@andresmh Wasn't expecting this information on the terms of service link, rather, the about server page!

blakeley h. payne @blakeley@hci.social

· 47mo ago

@jakjak@c.im Right, but that's just the server rules. I already checked there.

blakeley h. payne @blakeley@hci.social

· 47mo ago

@jakjak@c.im yep, I understand that! hoping someone from my instance can answer.