A Shinigami Eyes fork designed to fix a number of underlying, fundamental issues with it's design philosophy:
- Shinigami Eyes provides no opt-out option for it's pro-trans highlight. Critics have pointed out repeatedly that this could easily out people to abusers or oppressive governments, as well as giving transphobes an easy list of targets to harass. One goal of this fork is to create an opt-in system for the green highlight, in order to prevent such a situation from occuring nonconsentually.
- Shinigami Eyes operates under a BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life) development model. What this means is that the original author is the only one who controls commits to the main repo, and is the only person who can add or remove names from either highlight list. This has serious implications regarding the possibility for the author to abuse their power in deciding who is added to which list, and there have been documented instances where this has occured, and trans people have been added to the red list over petty, intra-community discourse. If this fork attracts enough attention, the author of this fork fully intents to form a community committee to oversee the managing of the lists, to help insure against such abuse. Such a committee does not exist at the moment, because we do not want it to simply become a clique of people we personally like, and we intend to eventually recruit people who we don't personally know, but who are invested in the project (frequent contributors, people who raise good issues, etc.).
- Shinigami Eyes only supports a small number of corporate social media sites. This fork intends to eventually add support for flagging these names in federated protocols (various ActivityPub implementations [e.g. mastodon, pleroma], common email providers, etc.), potentially marking known nasty domains (such as fediverse instances known to harbor bad actors), and possibly even devise a way of marking flagged users procedurally in unknown contexts and sites.
- Shinigami Eyes currently only flags for cissexism, a very narrow kind of bigotry. This project aims to expand the scope of reasons for flagging, to include as many axes of collective liberation as we can. This will hopefully include flags for antiblackness, white supremacy, ableism, transmisogyny, neurotypical supremacy, pedophilia, and just general capitalist bootlicking.
Note that this fork is still a work in progress, and none of these features are implemented yet. Please be patient, as my system is the only contributor at the moment.