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Another Black person played Mastodon "instance roulette" and lost.
We need a Mastodon instance Green Book pronto or this ain't gonna work.
This is starting to feel like the WW2 Dunkirk evacuation where the Black and Indian Commonwealth soldiers were abandoned on the beach...
@mekkaokereke this is very bad and needs fixed. I'm not sure what I can possibly do about it, but if you have any ideas I'll take them up.
I don't like the "therefore we need a corporate platform" logic going on in that thread, twitter is a bad bad place and many of us have been targeted for harassment by accounts that have never faced sanction.
But there is clearly a race problem on some mastodon instances. Something must be done.
@moh_kohn
I think a lot of this comes down to helping users pick the right instance up front, and helping instances scale moderation to meet this wave of new Mastodon users.
There's a huge difference in experience for Black folks that landed on smaller instances with good moderation, and those that didn't.
It's much easier to scale the technical infra than the moderation infra. Effectively moderating 100,000 users is more than 100 times harder than moderating a thousand users
Does Twitter allow you to have threads warning others about the larger instances and their moderation issues? Or do those threads get removed as fast as they go up? :(
@xenophora @moh_kohn So far, I think they are letting them stay up?
I recommended a few smaller instances that seemed life safe places (e.g. Hachyderm.io) and those seem to be up still.
Not a techie so I don't have any brilliant ideas to make this process better, but at least I can wish you best of luck. π
@cd24 @mekkaokereke other bad behaviour by servers is punished with threats of defederation, should that be the case here?
Also suspect white Germans may be deeply naive about American racial dynamics. They could employ a black American expert to help them?
@moh_kohn @cd24 @mekkaokereke I'm not trying to be rude but we were all aware of the events of summer 2020 yes? Even if one managed to avoid the previous multiple years, that was a watershed moment with video and discussion that reached people in a way the LA riots didn't.
A lot of the lifting of COVID restrictions and the manufactured recessions we are seeing are a fairly direct response to that. I mean... that's obvious right?
@mekkaokereke
@moh_kohn
I feel like I'm sticking my nose in where it doesn't belong a lot of the time because I'm a 47 year old queer white non-binary white femme β but I've been TRYING to explain this to white folks who are being awful about this.
Many (most?) don't understand these issues and there's just not many Black folks here. I don't want to herd all the white folks to Black spaces to learn. That's a lot of bullshit for a few people.
I don't want to speak for people but I also don't want to watch white folks sit in an echo chamber being dicks.
@pvonhellermannn @mekkaokereke @moh_kohn
FWIW, I agree. White folx should be following hashtags that open up their experiences - and boosting them!
We have to get this right if we ever want to see this get better. Racism - and the other ism's that are ruining our society - are straight, white people issues and they are the ones that need to work to solve them.
@mekkaokereke
I moved from mastodon.social due to performance issues. So I dodged the de-federated risk by pure chance.
Some won't be so lucky. Seconding the "Green Book" of instances for that reason and to avoid cesspools.
mastodon.lol is pretty rad and has a really inclusive direction/feel as far as I can tell. I was briefly there before I scootched over to kolektiva.social for my own silly reasons. (@artburn)
As far as a βgreen bookβ, someone [awesome] recently spun up a literal βblack twitterβ instance. Which would sorta be like a post-21st century version.
And itβs getting users galoreβ¦
https://0sint.social/@artburn/109383460710932699
Attached: 1 image @[email protected] When I showed up here, one of my first thoughts was "the instances concept seems like the perfect way to make a literal #blacktwitter on mastodon or on any of the other flavors in the fediverse while still being able to interact with the rest of the fediverse" Of course it wouldn't fix racist users & admins elsewhere, but twitter (and other platforms) are pretty miserable about that as well. Lo & behold... https://blacktwitter.io/about/more
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