@The Nexus of Privacy the way you advocate for non-Mastodon alternatives means. you come across as a reply guy so you'll do more harm than good if you do
This is an issue of technological and therefore cultural differences between Mastodon on the one side and Hubzilla on the other.

If I wanted to change that one-sidedly, I'd massively reduce the choice of people whom I can reply to. I'd have to sit and wait until someone who either mentions me out of the blue or who is mutually connected to me acts like the Fediverse is only Mastodon. I'm pretty sure that those who follow me know that the Fediverse is much more than Mastodon. Many of them have started following me to learn such things from me. And those who know me well enough to mention me know that the Fediverse is more than Mastodon, too.

Putting the fediverse as a whole aside, if you want Hubzilla and (streams) to be less hostile to Black people, you'll need to find ways around those -- after all, you're one of their most prominent advocates on the fediverse.
As I've said, for example, sit and wait until someone explicitly wants me to interact with them.

Or hope that my own posts that mention Hubzilla or (streams) happen to be discovered by the right people, regardless of how many Mastodon users have already muted or blocked me.

Increase the possibility of that happening by chopping them into little chunks of no more than 500 characters to make it easier on the eye for Mastodon users, regardless of how many Friendica or even other Hubzilla users will mute or block me if I do that. Even though I'm closer to Friendica and Hubzilla users than I am to Mastodon users.

And Hubzilla and (streams) have hashtags, so you could follow the MutualAid tag and boost (and contribute if you have money).
Hubzilla has hashtags, but it doesn't support following them like Mastodon does. Not unless I subscribe to e.g. mastodon.social's RSS feed generated by the search for a certain hashtag.

But I won't even do that because #MutualAid on mastodon.social alone generates much more posts than all my unmuted contacts combined, all of which, sorry to say, are cruft on my topic-specialised channel. It's bad enough already now when I sit down at my machine in the morning and find "99+" new unread activities, and I have to go through all of them. I can't even tell right off the bat across how many threads these activities are spread. One new post by Eugen Rochko or George Takei boosted to me can drop the unread count because the 167 comments that came afterwards are marked unread along with the post itself. But I could just as well have 40 or 50 new posts with rather few comments to go through.

And that hashtag would flood my stream and my unread activities count with hundreds of single posts over night. And I'd have to load and read them all, one by one. I mean, I can also filter the list of unread activites by name, have only those from the hashtag feed listed and mark them all unread in one fell swoop. But them I wouldn't have to go through the hassle of finding the RSS feed and subscribing to it if I don't read any of it, now, would I?

(streams) can follow hashtags. But my two (streams) channels are even more specialised in topic. It's enough already to receive the same posts and comments from OpenSim contacts twice, once on Hubzilla, once on (streams), because I don't semi-mute my (streams) contacts for a reason that even I don't know. In fact, neither channel exists to follow anyone. I've created both to put content out for which Hubzilla is unfit.

For example, I never said Black-run instances are a "ghetto", so you misquoting me with a term that's usually seen as disparaging -- and then repeating it multiple times in the same paragraph -- is anti-Black.
What I meant are instances specialising in a Black audience, not instances with Black admins and a general audience as mixed as that on mastodon.social.

Similarly when you say
Second, I know that oppressed minorities, Black people first and foremost, cling to Mastodon for their dear lives because, as bad as Mastodon turned out to be, they either don't know that the Fediverse is more than just Mastodon. Or if they do know, they consider everything else in the Fediverse to be even worse. Because it isn't Mastodon. Because they don't really know it, and they don't want to find out the hard way by trying.
it's inaccurate, condescending, and anti-Black.
I've literally read this exact notion from Black users. It's a while ago, and I didn't know that I'd ever have to prove it, so I didn't save that comment anywhere. But it actually really happened.

I suggested trying something else than Mastodon that's safer. The reply I received was that, no, anything that isn't Mastodon is not safe, regardless of what it may be. This notion was backed by, for example, Nazi instances on Pleroma which make the entirety of Pleroma unsafe all over. And everything else that isn't Mastodon is not trustworthy either, partly because these Mastodon users couldn't count on it having moderation on the same level which they were used to from larger Mastodon instances.

They weren't even willing to give anything that isn't Mastodon a try because they were too afraid and too certain to land straight in some racist cesspool with either zero or too little or biased moderation. As for Hubzilla or (streams), they wouldn't have been able to judge them anyway without joining them because the public instances of neither of the two have public streams, so visitors can't see what's going on on that instance. I mean, it's hard to blame them for this decision.

If, that is, you actually want to make the fedierse as a whole -- and Hubzilla and (streams) in particular -- less hostile to Black people.
If I can do that. If that's even possible.

What it really takes is a few Black Fediverse users who aren't afraid of trying something a) of which they can't see how safe it is, b) which so far has a purely white audience (only a few dozen people, about half of whom seem to have their own instances) and c) which handles a great deal differently from Mastodon. But I'd say that the (streams) community in general would be eager to help with that huge step, also seeing as how much advertisement the success of such an endeavour would bring with itself. And due to the high density of instance owners, there's a lot of experience with instance administration as well.

Let the dust of (streams)' "nomadic ActivityPub" redesign settle, let one or a few members of marginalised minorities with enough reach try it out and find it to their liking and tell everyone about it, and it could kick off a little snowball effect. Especially if people discover that PWAs and Web interfaces on mobile aren't that bad if they adapt to mobile well.

After all, @Elena Rossini ✏️✨📸 has just tried Friendica to be able to write about it, and she was blown away to such degrees that she decided to move over permanently. And her blog post about it is expected to have the power to draw a lot more people into Friendica. It certainly can happen.

Speaking of which, I plan to write a "test drive" article about (streams) from a user's point of view and compare it to Hubzilla. I'll write it in a way that Mastodon users who are the huge majority of my contacts can profit from it, too.

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