a place uncomfortable for black people? on the fediverse i have never been in touch with a topic related to the skin color of somebody. to me - it simply does not exist. which is nice! …while in x, insta and probably all other centralized/directed/biased social media apps it is all about armageddon… seems the techelite wants to push the world into chaos. as they consider crises as a good business model to become richer

@frocksupreme hi! How nice for you that you haven't had to deal with this before. Have you considered that others may have different experiences? You might want to read up on this stuff—perhaps helpful: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danabrownlee/2022/06/19/dear-white-people-when-you-say-you-dont-see-color-this-is-what-we-really-hear/

@dingemansemark i read it. it has nothing to do with decetralized social media. so no reason to bring this point up at this thread. simply different topic

@frocksupreme @dingemansemark umm, you see how incredibly tone deaf that sounds, right? this is not about the technological merits of social media, it's about why mastodon has a racism problem and how we can fix it, at least to the degree that we can create technical solutions to social problems. Yes, bluesky is more centralised than mastodon, see the ability of bluesky the company to ban someone from blacksky, see the offloadable moderation and labeling system, the recent controversy that started this whole thing, etc. However, there are things that we can do to mitigate racism, as well as other similar hate views, like queerfobia, ableism and so on. Many people would say we can't do much about any of that, because of the decentralisation, and for that, spamd and email filters from the 90s want to say hello. So yeah, it's not simple at all, it takes a big amount of thinking about the problem to create a powerful solution which preserves the spirit of the fedi, but many people especially from mastodon are either too afraid to do anything so they do nothing at all in hopes to not upset anyone, or they are too concerned about numbers going up and flashy designs than trying to make people feel truely welcome here. I'm not sure which is worse, but either of those views perpetuate harm, in ways the perpetrators don't know, or don't care, about.

@esoteric_programmer @dingemansemark mastodon has no racism
problem. maybe you have

@frocksupreme @dingemansemark just because you don't see it, because it's not in your immediate circle of followers, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.