We’re never going to see anyone held truly accountable for the community harm they cause because for a lot of people the only justice we know how to do is hashtags and lines in the sand follow lists and block parties. >

And those aren’t toxic things necessarily, but when those strategies are used exclusively and over a period of (counts) three days, the fight gets muddled and exaggerated and escalated and misunderstood and weaponized

And then that’s why the inevitable pushback comes from the people who weren’t there at the start of it, and the calls for “restorative justice”, and the worries about “what happens when they come for me”, and the churn of Discourse, until we all get tired and put it away.

And I wonder if that’s why we keep having the same conversations over and over again—about Mike Mearls, about Zak S, about everyone who does something wrong in our space and deserves to be held accountable for it. We never get justice, we just get tired.

We don’t have the tools or the strategy to sustain the kind of long-form effort required to actually find or create justice on Twitter. The platform isn’t designed for it. It’s designed for churn, for discourse, for pushback, for viral tweets and popular voices.

So...I don’t know. This shit happens every week, and it always happens the same way. We need a better solution that doesn’t leave everybody traumatized (or re-traumatized) in the process.