4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)
4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)
Draft! Work in progress! Feedback welcome!
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
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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.
yes, there’s a fuckton of racism on the fediverse. are you new?
You want to share? Or just leave me to keep doom scrolling and not seeing anything outside of Trump articles? I am exclusively on Lemmy.
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.
From the very beinning of the article, in the quote from tillshadeisgone:
"In recent days, folks such as @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected] ... 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.
This must be a mastadon thing or something. I'm on Lemmy. All I see is Linux, left leaning politics, and memes. Awareness is great, but I'm just saying I can't even tell who is what race on here, let alone be hateful towards anyone (except conservatives).
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
Well said. Can I quote you in the revised draft?
sure, as long as you don't credit me for it!
what quaint, 90s flavored racism this is
it can stay in the 90s
so what you're saying is that people shouldn't be their whole selves in your presence because it makes you uncomfortable.
replying to your questions/points in order of appearance: yes; go to hell; get in the sea.
Are you seeing instances I am defederated from? Nobody has answered my question.
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