I saw this post from @BlackAzizAnansi that Mastodon remains an overwhelmingly white space and I can't refute that, but I'm angry that it is this way. My experience in tech is that there's no shortage of black talent or black voices, there's a shortage of black opportunity and space due to racism. I see that reflected here. I feel like if we want a #blackmastodon then we can't be passive about this, we have to be intentionally inclusive, intentionally anti-racist. It's not enough to just support.

@monkeyninja @BlackAzizAnansi I honestly think the best way to do that is for more POC to enter the space. Staying out of the space certainly won't help. I mean by definition, if a place is too non-POC, POC staying out of it will only keep it non-POC.

I don't know how to bring about the sort of top-down, elite, corporated content management that people dismissing Mastodon seem to want, without fundamentally destroying what Mastodon / fediverse is.

It sucks, but the real world is a mess.

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