@JulianOliver

I have a load of respect for her. I wonder why she’s not posting here? Maybe because she hasn’t found the same supportive community she finds on bsky? (BTW, the moderators on your instance terminated my account there because of my pro-Palestine toots. Masto doesn’t live up to the hype in my book).

@micchiato White racists ran her down, I doubt she's ever coming back. Quite understandable really.

Bsky is effectively one instance, one moderation culture. Mastodon has many instances, many different cultures. I run a couple of nodes myself.

But sure, if you get stung, you don't think "what hive". You just think "bees".

That's true but also even being on a very well-moderated instance doesn't insluate you from the culture -- Dr. Johnathan Flowers talks about this in The Whiteness of Mastodon. And, one of the things that she (and others) highlighted were the problems with white users telling Black users that they should just change instances. Here's a screenshot of tweet from hers back in the day (not sure if the tweet still exists, I have the screeenshot because I included it in the "view from 2022" section of Mastodon: a partial history.

@JulianOliver @micchiato

Oh yeah. There are a bunch of other common things in the "Common Mistakes to Avoid" section of 5 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people

BTW I remember we once talked about community-run infrastructure as a form of self-hosting (or something along those lines), Blacksky is very much an example of that. Not sure if you've ever read Rudy Fraser's 3-part series "Blacksky: Expressing the Black Everyday in a New Digital Space" but it's got some great grounding for the work he's been doing.

@JulianOliver @micchiato