The other day I was on reddit and somebody had gone to a subreddit for a hate group about a particular identity, screenshotted a post there, and posted it in a subreddit for people with that identity. Like "Ha ha look at this"

So we asked "Why are you going to subreddits for people who hate us and bringing their posts here for people like us to read?" and they said "Out of spite, to prove we don't care what they think :3"

Okay, but like. I don't want to see that

All of this is to say that I think, if we've grown used to the idea of "digital self-harm", I think we also need to get used to the idea that if you take what you find and bring it back, now you're doing digital others-harm

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@amy yeah this is essentially why i quit tumblr also—just infinite permutations of “everyone needs to see this upsetting thing for some reason” (+ the reblog button making it way to easy to reshare without really thinking about which, at least reddit doesn’t do that bit)

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