Patricia Aas
Ok, white folks: “reverse racism” doesn’t exist, and if you don’t know that, you have a lot of learning ahead of you.
Nov 20, 2022 at 7:34pmWeb
Show threadPatricia AasNov 20, 2022
This post comes as a response to me seeing a handful of examples of black folks having their posts (where they talk about white people and racism) deleted by mods with the reason being “racism”.
Show threadjoachim Nov 20, 2022
@Patricia mastodon posts?
Show threadPatricia AasNov 20, 2022
@joachim yeah
Show threadjoachim Nov 20, 2022
@Patricia christ
Show threadmárjjážanNov 20, 2022

@Patricia sigh

i see this convo is going to loop repeatedly, forever

Show threadCarrieJLNov 20, 2022
@Patricia I'm new here but I understand this kind of policy/moderation differs from instance (server) to instance and therefore many people look for one that is not moderated in this manner as vivaldi apparently is. ? I've read some posts asking which instances are POC friendly and am wondering that myself.
Show threadPatricia AasNov 20, 2022
@Carriejl the ones I’ve seen were not on Vivaldi, the last one I saw was on mastodon.social
Show threadCarrieJLNov 20, 2022
@Patricia Really?! Oh no, that's where I am. I started off here but better move. Do you find Vivaldi or another instance proactively antiracist etc?
Show threadPatricia AasNov 20, 2022
@Carriejl no, you are on mstdn.social which confusingly is a different server than mastodon.social 😅
Show threadCarrieJLNov 20, 2022
@Patricia I just realized that! Good grief. Thank you. ☺
Show threadPatricia AasNov 20, 2022
@Carriejl 💜💜💜
Show threadJames WidmanNov 20, 2022

@Patricia at this point i'm just hoping the cohost people stay funded...

but also, it would be great if we didn't have to rebuild our network from scratch every time we try a new site, so i'm not even sure if anyone working on a social-networking system is even trying to solve the right problem

Show threadPatricia AasNov 20, 2022
@JamesWidman I’m currently hoping a culture shift is not only possible, but inevitable… though I don’t actually believe that yet
Show threadAdil SadikNov 20, 2022
@Patricia fwiw I think this is (at least currently) primarily an issue with mastodon.social. It's a shame though that that is the de facto "default" server and is so many people's primary impression of mastodon
Show threadPatricia AasNov 20, 2022
@sparky_005 yeah, I don’t remember which servers the previous examples I saw were on, but this last one (that triggered me posting) was indeed on mastodon.social
Show threadAdil SadikNov 20, 2022
@Patricia Well hopefully this is not the start of a trend on other servers, ugh
Show thread@[email protected] has movedNov 21, 2022

@sparky_005 @Patricia I think we're about to see a giant experiment in decentralized community play out in real time.

I understand the history of Mastodon has had a lot of politics with instances deciding who to federate with. But the number of voices is way greater now. It seems to me that the instance level is to blunt of a tool and too beholden to admins.

Show threadKrzysztof SakrejdaNov 20, 2022
@Patricia if you don't mind sharing... which servers is this kind of garbage happening on?
Show threadPatricia AasNov 21, 2022
@wronglang I didn’t pay attention to the servers of the previous ones (I will in the future), but the one I saw yesterday was mastodon.social
Show threadKrzysztof SakrejdaDec 15, 2022
@Patricia (belated) thanks for the reply, I'm slightly less lost on here now 😂 it's been encouraging to see this stuff play out on here mostly ok w/o corporate governance
Show threadArjan Koole 🇺🇦Nov 20, 2022
@Patricia spoiler alert: they have a lot to learn.
Show threadCher TailorNov 20, 2022
@Patricia Ask em what forward racism must mean to them. :P
Show threadstd::polarNov 20, 2022
@Cher It all starts with non-repudiation
Show threadFilipNov 20, 2022
@Patricia I never understood what "reverse racism" is supposed to mean