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I am very deeply, ambivalently fascinated by the advent of "do not interact (DNI)" lists as a growing norm of being online, especially among younger people
"DNI if racist/transphobe/etc," verbatim down to the "etc.," can sound very token (imagine "DNI if you're bad") and when commonly listed side-by-side with "DNI if you ship these ships," real bigotry is flattened into something of equal offense to, like, liking a fictional age gap
Or, rather, liking a fictional age gap or some other decidedly gross fandom crime is *elevated* to the level of real bigotry, which is also how and why you get these enormous and alarmist callout posts for people's "abuse" that's little more than making controversial fanart
I think it's good that people want to try to control their own interactions online, especially "Minors DNI" discouraging children from getting too chummy with adults who don't want that attention or audience, but ultimately a DNI list is never going to be anything more than this
In short, DNI lists have their use for controlling one's own audience a bit, but at scale they strike me as the endpoint of the "posting is activism" mindset, right down to the idea that posting "wrong" by interacting even accidentally with any undesirables is criminal behavior.
also re: Minors DNI, it'd be a hell of a lot easier and effective if we could just do this https://twitter.com/draculavoice/status/1353770109077172225
also also, speaking of interactions, it'd be really cool if your bank account interacted with this fundraiser for my friend's cat's expensive piss surgery https://www.gofundme.com/f/cats-expensive-piss-surgery
