@FediTips I think there was a lot of racism here when the initial migration from twitter happened, when Elon bought it. And unfortunately, the only way to fix that is to have a diverse and representative group of developers and decision makers.

What probably won't work is a lot of white people voting on features. The trans community plays a big part in this community, in terms of it's development and direction which is great, but there is a gap there, if there is a lack of black voices.

@roomey

Agreed, diversity is needed in deciding priorities.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying "white people vote on what should happen", that wasn't the intention.

The two features listed in my post were specifically ones that had been requested in various discussions by victims of bigotry, that was the only reason I included them in this list. For example there were people saying they felt safer on platforms with reply controls, and there was concern about Mastodon's reactive moderation.