Making Mastodon safer for BIPOC by reporting racism means proactive labor. It only takes a few minutes out of your doomscrolling and is more effective at fixing the world!

1. Follow BIPOC. You should be doing that anyway!

2. Read their posts. Be open to understanding their experience. (You should be doing that anyway!)

3. Click through! Read some or all replies. Learn even more from the positive and educational posts.

4. Report the racist ones.

As I said in the replies, this will alert the racist’s instance, and assuming their instance won’t do anything, it also alerts you own instance about problem-servers to defederate with. Otherwise they can’t know!

The more of us who do this, the better. Reporting bad behavior is a form of democracy that establishes what is unacceptable in our shared culture.

#antiracism

@corbden I totally agree. And I'm going to start proactively checking replies on posts by BIPoC folks I follow. I've seen too many folks talking about this abuse, it's time to actively seek it out and shut it down.

I'm concerned that the fact that you can't necessarily see replies from people on servers not followed by people on yours (I think that's the algorithm, I know it's something like that) means that we can check replies, but we can't see all of them, especially from rogue servers.

I'd love to have some data on how many of the attacks fall into that category. Because I don't know if that's a big problem or not. I'm also curious if @MonaApp 's "load from remote server" command works around this.