Tomorrow I publish the intro to my story on fedi

It'll be on my blog

I can't remember what time I scheduled it for but I wrote it weeks ago and just have been sitting on it, not ready for potential attention it may receive, also no able to hold it in anymore

Blog has rss if you're into that

#BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #BlackMastodonHistory #IndigenousMastodon

https://www.artistmarciax.com/blog-1

I've had to delay this a few days due to work and finals, but here we are.

Mastodon has a huge racism problem. My girlfriend pointed it out and I started looking into it and realizing just how bad it was here. It was stupid of me to hope that a decentralized network would somehow not still reflect the white supremacy ever-present in our world.

So, with the small power I have, I'm trying to raise awareness. I added a section on content moderation (specifically the second paragraph) to Mastodon's #wikipedia article, to make sure the issue is a matter of public record and the ways it can be addressed are as well.

If you can talk about killing Nazis and stomping out racists and fascists, you should not be afraid to #fediblock them online. Protection of the most marginalized is as important in the digital commons as it is in the physical one and if this space isn't to devolve further into a white circle-jerk then protection of BIPOC comrades should be the first priority. Report and block fascists and racists.

Don't look to me for any answers, I get some racism and islamaphobia but I still only pass the brown paper bag test if the bag is one of the slightly lighter ones. Follow hashtags such as #BlackMastodonHistory, #BlackMastodon, and #BlackFedi, shut up, and listen. Not just hear, but listen and take action. Don't argue, don't ask questions requiring labor when you could just google the answers ffs, don't prize whiteness and civility over action.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)#Content_moderation

half the shit i get accused of passes for legit criticism bc most ppl on here
are white & these terms are new to yall -- that's how its working out 'i denied
your discussion of anti blackness bc I'm not black and dont know about it'
no shit but im a bigot either way bc i talk abt colorism and antiblacknessim--
tired of getting gaslit. & this is all tumblr 2011 discourse. the fediverse is
very behind to the discussion

#BlackMastodonHistory

I have published an archive subscriber content post from 2020 on my blog

Here, I was connecting works on decoloniality that I was reading to what was happening on the fediverse at the time. Oddly enough, not much has changed.

#IndigenousMastodon
#BlackMastodonHistory #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon
https://www.artistmarciax.com/post/archived-post-op-ed-decoloniality-and-fediverse

Also

If I know that you're networking or being friendly with known bad actors of antiblack or colorist events, I'm probably (from here on out) just gonna soft block or hard block

I had ppl mining my followers only posts and ss'ing and sending them to ppl so they could be shared amongst others.

This space has been very unsafe for me for years

Extending grace wrt my safety has finished.

#Indigenous #BlackMastodonHistory #BlackFedi

The media's sudden interest in fedi as it grows means there's a spotlight on hot topics bc that's what happens.

#BlackMastodon & #Indigenous folks are going to be under a microscope. #BlackMastodonHistory is going to be written by ppl who weren't involved (already is)

Also, ppl's timelines are going to be mined for content like they were on twitter/tumblr, they already are and being quoted in the press.

I can't stress this enough how much I do not like that, as an og user

" "You don't fix oppression by shifting it onto another already oppressed group. And you especially don't use the day designated to honor that second group as an excuse." "

This was said about me when I posted the Black Trans Flag

Black Trans and Non Binary ppl exist

#BlackMastodonHistory #BlackMastodon #TransAwarenessWeek