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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. 👍
Mekka 
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