All of the posts on Mastodon about how the Blue Sky team was silly for releasing a social media network in 2023 without blocking and moderation, even in private beta, and that the Blue Sky team should have known what would happen...
...are being written on Mastodon: a social media platform that in 2023, still doesn't take into account that Black users face a disproportionate amount of very specific types of abuse, and is missing key features that would make the Black population safer. 🙂🙃
It really is the social media equivalent of white folks telling Black folks that Boston is less racist than the South, and completely ignoring any Black folk that live in Boston or anywhere else in the US trying to talk about what their real, lived, experiences have been.
Many Mastodon users are just completely convinced of the superiority of their moderation philosophy, and they are as happy to ignore the few Black Fedi users in 2023 as they were in 2017.
@mekkaokereke Having grown up in St. Augustine Florida back when reading about history was still legal in that state, I've got to say kudos for the Boston comparison in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_desegregation_busing_crisis#Violence
The way some of us white folks aggressively forget our histories says a lot about how we'll act when our comfort or self-image are threatened. And that's even before getting to the actual material change we all need!
mekka okereke 
Ryan Randall