I would like to be able to make recommendations to BIPOC who have been scared off by the (non)moderation of mastodon.social and some of the other bigger instances.
If you know of an instance where there are non-white people who are doing the moderation (and also that the moderation is good) please let me know.
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momentan fühle ich mich noch wie die einzige schwarze im mastodon. wirklich keine neue erfahrung no worries. aber ich eröffne mal #blackmastodon - vielleicht finden sich so leute
I dont know about the mods for blacktwitter.io but it seems to be a great community. i peruse to keep abreast of things, i haven't looked at qualifications to join the instance, but there's a lot of quality ppl and posts. (not sure if its for employees of twitter or if it is to compare to the community there, haven't read the instance about page yet)
@serenissima some folks might be interested in weirder.earth
We defederate from servers often which some people dislike, but it's part of making it a safer place and often because of our BIPOC moderators.
It may not be for everyone but I recommend they check out the server rules and also our blocklist to see if they would be cut off from any people they specifically would want to talk to https://weirder.earth/about
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I keep forgetting that exists now!
i'm sorry to say it, but they likely have some moderation challenges. It's a completely new instance that already has over 1000 members. They're likely to be still setting up a mod team and figuring out how to run it.
Give it a bit to get through the start up hiccups and it'll probably be awesome, but if you want to be sure of good moderation, they may not be the best right now
@serenissima therein lies the rub, doesn't it?
big instances with open registration tend to be horribly run, and the staff tend to be very homogenous
instances with good moderation, and those run or modded by POC, are often small and registration is limited or closed, due to having to deal with the poor moderation of the rest of the fedi
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I know that writing.out and rage.love have a Korean mod/admin (same person) who I trust. I believe that rage.love has other non-white mods, but don't recall for sure
I believe weirder.earth has several non-white mods, but again can't say for sure
ubiqueros.com is a misskey (I think) instance admin'd by a Black person. Ro is good people with no shits to give for anyone's bullshit. No idea if it's open for new registration
Hey, #BlackMastodon, in light of some of what I've been seeing regarding bad-call bans on some of the larger instances, I'm hoping to see if there's suggestions to relay for people who are being discouraged by that behavior for friendlier/smaller instances?
I've created a small, incomplete, list of instances with moderators of color. The list and suggestions became to much to keep up on my own, so here is a Google document, https://docs.google.com/document/d/12pTmSMpq8lMYyYlHT25DgTmdMmE6ysUyRHGiq-E4XdQ/edit?usp=sharingp Here's how to move accounts and take your followers with you https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/ #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFedi #FediTips #TwitterMigration #MastoAdmin
@serenissima I saw this the other day:
I've created a small, incomplete, list of instances with moderators of color. The list and suggestions became to much to keep up on my own, so here is a Google document, https://docs.google.com/document/d/12pTmSMpq8lMYyYlHT25DgTmdMmE6ysUyRHGiq-E4XdQ/edit?usp=sharingp Here's how to move accounts and take your followers with you https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/ #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFedi #FediTips #TwitterMigration #MastoAdmin
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