<aside> 💡 Instructions: this document is a work-in-progress and open to the team for collaboration. Please add your thoughts to the scratchpad, and once we are ready we can start consolidating things to Mission Statement, Values, and Community Guidelines.
Contribute and comment directly in the Team Agreement section since it is less formal and more pertaining to our day-to-day.
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Shaping social media by how it shape us, with marginalized and most vulnerable voices at the forefront to ensure safety, privacy, transparency, discovery, and growth. At Wibblur, we aim to have a community for the people, by the people.
We base our decisions on five values interdependent of each other
This set of values drives our decision making and the intent behind the community we’re creating. When faced with a difficult decision, we will always ensure these values are met in-order, and do not trade off items earlier in the list for gains later. For each value, we’ve also provided an example of how we’ve put these into practice.
We hope by providing examples, Wibblur is able to provide moderation that aligns with our values in the best format that improves the user experience. Please know that this is not an exhaustive list of examples/scenarios,
Safety: Safety is considering all intersections individuals are a part of and recognizing the dynamics between groups, emphasizing the most vulnerable voices. In a case-by-case scenario, we evaluate what occurred with whom, and take into consideration race as that is important.
<aside> 🚫 An example of how safety will come into play: Sally and Miranda are both marginalized people. Miranda is Black Queer while Sally is a white Queer. Sally displayed antiblack behavior towards Miranda and Miranda called it out along with others that were bothered by the antiblackness. Sally may say the space is now unsafe for her for being held accountable, however she is incorrect. While Sally may be queer, she is White and has White privilege which protects her in many circumstances due to proximity to whiteness. This is accounting for racial dynamics where one has more power than the other. In this instance, Sally would be held accountable for the antiblackness and failure to improve can result in removal.
This isn’t to say just because one is White, doesn’t mean they are immune to attacks. This isn’t saying Sally isn’t a victim to homophobic rhetoric. Homophobia is still violent and still something to address when it occurs. This is saying in this specific event, Sally cannot use her marginalized identity to get out of accountability.
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Privacy: We believe that a service should be private-by-default, instead of the open-by-default approach taken by other networks.