Feedback welcome! Here’s the TL;DR list
- Listen more to more Black people
- Post less – and think before you post
- Call in, call out, and/or report anti-Blackness when you see it
- Support Black people and Black-led instances and projects
Other suggestions?
Have you seen a lot of racism towards black people on the fediverse? Why are you spamming this everywhere? It doesnt make much sense telling people not to post on a platform that needs it more than anything.
Have you seen a lot of racism towards black people on the fediverse?
Yes.
It doesnt make much sense telling people not to post on a platform that needs it more than anything.
It doesn’t make much sense commenting here without reading the actual post so that you know what the synopsis means by “post less”.
Jesus H. Fuck, you’re boring.
replying to your questions/points in order of appearance: yes; go to hell; get in the sea.
No on god I agree with sanctus. I’m a triple minority and I have not seen any bigotry on the fediverse.
just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist
it might mean your mods do a great job, it might be that you don’t hang out in communities that draw chuds, it might be any many more things! it definitely means you don’t see the whole fedi at once.
but this shit does still exist
From the very beinning of the article, in the quote from tillshadeisgone:
“In recent days, folks such as @ErickaSimone@mastodon.social, @KimCrayton1@dair-community.social, @timnitGebru@dair-community.social … and many, MANY more have been speaking out about how toxic fedi culture is for Black folks and how the tools we have access to just aren’t enough.”
There are also several links to articles with a lot more detail on the fediverse’s history of anti-Blackness.
In 1 year of being on Lemmy, I think this post is the first one to bring up the topic of identity of Fediverse participants in any form (besides an OP if identity is the original topic).
(Maybe I’ve just managed to steer clear of communities that exist solely to discuss identity hatred?)
AFAIAC, y’all are genderless, faceless, amorphous thought bubbles writing words that compete exclusively on the merits of the weight of their arguments. Y’all might as well be LLMs, whose identity is essentially an NVIDIA card and whatever corner of the internet was scrapped. Anyway… The identity of commenters has no place on the fediverse. They are either off topic, ad hominem, or anecdotal data points exclusively (again, original topics of identity being a distinct exception).
tl;dr there’s no racism problem because you see everyone as a white man by default
Headline so stupid I almost clicked to see wtf they were talking about…
Then I realized it’s op posting their own blog.
where precisely do you imagine you found the rule that they’re not allowed to post their own blog?
If there was a rule I violated, my apologies! But I also didn’t see anything about it.
you’re fine; there’s no rules against your post, and we’ve never seen that poster before (and good news — now we never will again!)
unfortunately, a thread about the racism experienced by Black folks on the fediverse will attract weird, racist reactions from random posters
This is the cringest thing I’ve seen all month outside Hexbear.
The fediverses biggest problem is that people don’t use enough Linux. If that is not the most white middle class problem I don’t know what is.
Why do people think the fediverse is not filled with majority white people?
You’re just being asked to be thoughtful before opening your mouth. Is that so awful?
We’re at an inflection point where millions of people might be able to break free of the big social media companies. People are disgusted at the incumbents and are looking for someplace, anyplace to land.
Unfortunately, “Don’t be a dick” is in the critical path to success for the fediverse, We, the currently existing community, have to make it worth their while to jump to fedi, because if it’s a hassle, they’re just going to go somewhere else like bsky or Threads. Then we’ll all dragged along via network effects, riding the Wheel of Pain for another decade or so until that platform enshitifies and we maybe get another bite at the apple
You’re really illustrating the problem the OP is trying to fix quite nicely.
Instead of dropping a turd on our doorstep, why not have a policy of not commenting on stuff in places that you don’t really belong, like an normal person would in their regular life.
BTW, having a fedi-wide stream of popular posts was a mistake.
