If you see a black person cross your stream, you better follow them goddamnit. It’s white as rice in here.
@ThisPlaceAgain OK, that's some funny shit. I'd follow you for that even if it wasn't true. 🤣
@ThisPlaceAgain I do, and it is, and I'm not sure what to do about it other than follow and try to encourage.
@smellsofbikes That’s all you can do I guess. 🤷🏾‍♀️
@ThisPlaceAgain There may be more, but I'm not sure what. I was enthused when @wagatwe moved over here from Twitter, as she's an amazing writer, but I think Mastodon was not welcoming.
@ThisPlaceAgain @jacobrogers256 My bad. It’s prolly me. I’m damn near shiny. :/
@josh @ThisPlaceAgain High albedo. Not to be confused with libido
@ThisPlaceAgain Not enough giant chickens either.
@JonKramer or platypus
@ThisPlaceAgain , my gods... you are right. How did I miss that?

@ThisPlaceAgain Hmmm...

Most people I follow, I don't know, which colour their skin has. Or their age, gender or anything. And I like it that way.

@ThisPlaceAgain
LORDT I didnt want to be the one to say it OMG. 😂

I alluded to my experience as a black artist on social media a month or two ago. I got a bunch of white people in my mentions, some listening respectfully but others tryna start an argument and talk over me.

And I said this in the Black mastodon group. And it took a moment for me to process this: wait, where the Black ppl at in this convo???

@jtphillipsmnr I’m searching high and low. They are few and far between. This is gonna take work. 😓

@funcrunch @ThisPlaceAgain @jtphillipsmnr

I follow the #BlackMastodon tag for quality content, though personally I am melanin deficient...it comes in spots!

@ThisPlaceAgain @jtphillipsmnr

Here’s some! I been looking for a long time. https://mas.to/@nesmb/110336432517082141

Layla Low (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Here are some representatives of Black excellence. Some of these folks sadly haven’t posted in a long time, but maybe they will come back. ‪@[email protected] ‪@[email protected]‬ ‪@[email protected]‬ ‪@popcornreel‬ ‪@[email protected]‬ ‪@carnage4life‬ ‪@[email protected]‬ ‪@[email protected]‬ ‪@[email protected]‬ ‪@[email protected]‬ ‪@etebur‬ ‪@[email protected]‬ ‪@[email protected]‬ ‪@BlackAzizAnansi‬ ‪@[email protected]‬ ‪@[email protected]‬ ‪@[email protected]‬ ‪@[email protected]‬ ‪@[email protected]‬ ‪@[email protected]‬ ‪@[email protected]‬ ‪@[email protected]‬ ‪@[email protected]

mas.to
@ThisPlaceAgain rice can’t live without beans. Must be why I married Latino.
@ThisPlaceAgain You got it. Checked your TL. Following.
@ThisPlaceAgain I don't look at the profile pics. I just read the posts.
@ThisPlaceAgain Haha that’s exactly what I do. Nice to meet you.
@nesmb Nice to meet you.
@ThisPlaceAgain
“white as rice”, I like that! I’ll add that to my other favourite, ‘pink skinned’.
@ThisPlaceAgain
I don't care about the color of ppl. It has nothing to do with anything.
This is no rebuke. It's a fact.
@ThisPlaceAgain I'm black. Am I exempt? 🙂
@davidnjoku Heck no. 🙂
@ThisPlaceAgain Good. Thought I'd been doing it wrong 🤣
@davidnjoku @ThisPlaceAgain I recommended you to her! And everyone else I cd see from their pics is not white. I find it very middle-aged middle-class, like all people who work posh jobs (weekends off and stuff), paid off their mortgage, garden, bird-spot, think holiday = hiking in UK not sunburning in spain, etc. Like there's probably zero daily-mail readers on here & half are scientists. Which is fine, but makes it feel cliquey, even though these people are on different continents! so it's not
@ThisPlaceAgain I'll follow you to the ends of the earth. 😀
@ThisPlaceAgain Have a whole list of black mastodon so I can learn from people with different experiences. There have been a few black folks I have not followed, but my feed here is way more diverse that it ever was on twitter. This place was made to help out the marginalized I really hope this becomes a safe comfortable home for many.

@ThisPlaceAgain
Be sure to follow the hashtags #BlackHistory and #BlackMastodon / #BlackMastadon for lots of black accounts.

Also, check out this link.

https://toot.majorshouse.com/@majorlinux/110492102415310749

Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers (@[email protected])

Hey @[email protected]! We've been included in the #FediDirectory! https://fedi.directory/black-mastodon-chirp-group/ Thanks to @[email protected] for getting this set up for us! #BlackMastodon

MajorToot
@ThisPlaceAgain Thanks for posting this. Your replies gave me a ton more black people to follow.
@ThisPlaceAgain I'm the only person who isn't a scientist or a retired person who does long walks, and I am white. There's a few other people, but it feels like one long lecture on climate change and nuclear physics. Which is fine, I'm antisocial. Also it's 90%usa, but at least I'm a native english speaker so that's just the downside of privilege really