Timnit Gebru (she/her).Reading so many accounts of especially Black people being harassed on here to the point of leaving. And also the type of aversion there is to talking about it. SMH. Can’t we have anything that isn’t racist by default?
Matthew Mullins@timnitGebru shameful. I thought Mastodon was supposed to have better tools for blocking/booting these people and their trashy servers.
Rebecca@mmullins
It does -- the problem is social, not technical. The pre-existing monoculture has not adopted anti-racism. (A minority of servers notwithstanding.)
The thing about white dominated monocultures is that they're minefields because many white people will only express their racism when bipoc people show up. Till they open their mouths it's hard to identify them.
Further, the apathetic white majority will give white folks (esp. "known" folk) the benefit of the doubt every time.
@mmullins
Individually this is bad, worse is when an instance circles the wagons around some local big name. At which point racism and tribalism intermix, resulting in instances going to war with the poc led instances that had the users who reported the bad behavior to start with.
Individually this is bad, worse is when an instance circles the wagons around some local big name. At which point racism and tribalism intermix, resulting in instances going to war with the poc led instances that had the users who reported the bad behavior to start with.
elizabethveldon@iarna all of this
Jocelynephiliac 
@twipped Certainly it's not. Systematic racism infuses every part of our culture and if one isn't actively fighting it, you're likely supporting it in ways one may not even be aware of.
I'd propose that the twitter side doesn't have any locality and so doesn't have formation of groups of people who know each other because they're nearby (in a network sense). This then eliminates one of the forms of tribalism that appear uniquely on the fediverse that result in defending racist behavior.
@twipped That, combined with Twitter have a single centralized mod system meant that while they often made bad calls, there was never another group of users you had to convince of anything.