i’ll give you an example of how mastodon’s bullshit search limitations are incidentally racist.
i can’t search for sichuanese/四川话 unless they were tagged. now given these aren’t english, and most people aren’t tagging their average post. it’s not like there’s a flood of posts mentioning these things i can just jump into, it’s all in the backlog!!
meanwhile on the horrXble site i can do it with ease. #mastodonsowhite
@ohmu @BlackAzizAnansi Yes. Not to dispute what I take to be the main point that Mastodon is NOT the welcoming Utopia for Black voices white liberals want to imagine (#MastodonSoWhite ) but when I first encountered the news, I came here to learn more.
Without Mastodon, I would have missed the fact that the shooter first showed up at an HBCU for instance. Most media outlets have pretty well buried that detail, but thank goodness, #BlackMastodon exists & disseminates news…
I'm sure it was someone on #Mastodon who did it, since the #TechBros are losing their shit over #Spoutible. How dare a #BlackMan start a #SocialMedia platform?
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Talking only of my experience, my use of Mastodon is most of the way caught up to Twitter in terms of fulfillment. Enough close friends are here. Enough parasocial friends are here.
The worst drawback thus far is a big gap in the journalists, bloggers, & regular folk I followed, especially BIPOC folk. #MastodonSoWhite
A few Twitter holdouts like Gaslit Nation & Rewire Newsgroup I subscribe to their podcast or support their Patreon. I miss reading their day to day posts, though.
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