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Mike McHargue Apr 30, 2023

I'm skeptical of #Bluesky because it's built on the same tech VC mindset that has been so harmful in prior generations of social media.

I'm skeptical of the #fediverse and #Mastodon because Black and brown people get shouted over by tech leftists when they have the audacity to name their experiences here.

That crap shows up in my timeline every single time I log on.

Before you say, "my feed isn't like that," let me ask, "How many Black and brown people do you follow?"

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@mike I feel like maybe I shouldn't be able to answer that question. Even if some of the accounts I follow appear to be that, based on profile pics, it's not like there's a BLACKTCHA test to prove it. I can't actually prove I'm a fungal colony either, which is why social media posts don't break the Secrecy Laws for cryptid-Americans. How could any of us prove anything about ourselves is true? Just gotta give people some credit sometimes. Believe their story and engage with *their* reality.