Kee HinckleyCan we talk about Black twitter and Mastodon migration?
I’ve pretty seen a pretty strong consensus from black twitter that their experience in Mastodon has been very negative. Many people don’t see this as a viable destination.
skye it/its 🏳️⚧️@nazgul from what I've read there are a lot of issues, starting on the benign side: a LOT of white people who are convinced that they're not racist, doing normal racist white people "micro"aggressions and often quickly escalating to direct aggressive racism when they don't get the submissive response they expect.
this is the normal experience for many BIPOC in white dominated spaces, and that alone is a huge issue. checking our own & other white people's racism helps
@nazgul on the more menacing side, there are problems with federation and content moderation that make it extremely easy for trolls to keep harrassing. there are no targeted mass blocking tools like for example blocking all the followers of an account.
many servers have delayed content moderation, and creating new servers continually to go around defederation and keep attacking a specific person is extremely easy
@nazgul one high-profile Black scientist from twitter got slammed with INTENSE racist harassment and has learned a lot of these things the hard way.
so, on the development side a lot remains to be done to improve safety
@nazgul ultimately, as always, the only way to make this space truly viable for BIPOC is to involve, or at the VERY least actively consult them at every single level, in this case meaning from development to content moderation.