I'm enjoying mastodon so far but wow, all the comments about how white it is are extremely right. Almost all the other trans folks I've found have been white, and I know that isn't representative of the real world or even likely mastodon as a whole. I'd love to hear more from trans and queer POC (and POC all up, I've just been connecting with a LOT of trans folks).
Can anyone boost this to help me find more voices to listen to? Or recommend some hashtags? I don't even know how best to tag this.
@inherentlee I have to agree. I havent been able to tell if it is to do with the sector of the Fediverse that enters my timeline.... or if maybe Im not looking at the #BlackTwitter #BlackAcademics #BIPOC type hashtags enough.
I do think that one problem with so many people coming here from Twitter is....we tend to bring some of the bad habits (from birbsite) with us. That platform def felt "very white"
@Catwoman69y2k for sure, there is a lot of civility over content and other shit behavior.
I need to remember to follow more hashtags. That's still not default behavior for me 😅
@inherentlee to be fair, it isn't for a lot of people. Even when there was some visibility in the problem of birbsite's shadowbanning and algorithm tweaking, lots of people were not able to see the full power of hashtags.
People may still be used to Birbsite's search engine which allowed you to search for phrases and words
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