Caffe NekoNov 11, 2022

Dear Twitter ex-pats. When we all flounced out of Twitter loudly proclaiming we were going to Mastodon this sent a message to trolls, nazis that they could set up servers & come here.

If anyone gets harrassed with hatespeech pls note that that is not the culture of Mastodon. Please report & block those users. If you notice a pattern from the same weird domain, block that domain, write a post of the server name w/ a hashtag fediblock so your server admin can follow up & block it for everyone.

Show threadplanetdmaNov 11, 2022
@caffeneko from what I've read of the Black experience on Mastodon over the past few years, it definitely is the culture of Mastodon. That's separate from the existence of redress and the desire that it not be so.
Show threadCaffe NekoNov 11, 2022
@planetdma That is upsetting to hear. I will do my best to combat that where I see it.
Show threadplanetdmaNov 11, 2022
@caffeneko Even reframing the belief that any white-dominated space in which you move could possibly not have bigotry as an inherent part of the culture would be one more awakened voice in a conversation saturated with denial.
Show threadCaffe NekoNov 11, 2022
@planetdma I know that it is a goal. I know that many of the devs and server mods fled spaces of fascism. But there is absolutely room for growth and learning.
Show threadCaffe Neko
@planetdma These are important conversations to have, and nuanced ones b/c we are seeing a huge influx of global ethno-fascism in US and Europe. And they are using tech spaces for a lot of this abuse.
Nov 11, 2022 at 3:09amWeb
Show threadplanetdmaNov 11, 2022
@caffeneko These are basic understandings of how this world has operated, uninterrupted and with great visibility and vigor, for literal centuries that other people need to finally learn about on their own time so affected people can collectively decompress and discuss the weather and have a break from this nonsense.