Jeremy J. LittauNov 18, 2022

This piece on Wired about Black Twitter is worth your time. It's something I've been thinking about a lot, about how uneven a migration to a new space ends up being.

It also is one thing I'm eyeing about Mastodon. There's a danger that servers become silos if we aren't intentional. If you listen to some of the Black scholars in my field, they are saying as much. Twitter makes their work visible across groups.

So how do we federate for inclusion? It will be a challenge.

https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-elon-musk/

There Is No Replacement for Black Twitter

A series of missteps by Elon Musk has called the fate of the platform’s cultural engine into question.

WIRED
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@JeremyLittau white people, oligarchs can count out Black people, #BlackTwitter and #BlackMastodon at their own peril.
That’s not even our history. We have always found a way to deal w/ oppressive systems working to suppress our access to education, news, community etc. That is what the cabal of apartheid Clyde, thiel, the Saudis, the PayPal mafia are trying to do: suppress systems working for global liberal democracy, info sharing. Count Black people out at your own peril.
Nov 19, 2022 at 11:46pmWeb