Dr. Alyssa SepinwallAre any of my people planning to move to historians.social today? This will be my second migration and hopefully I won’t lose all my follow/ers and pinned posts again.
Dr. Alyssa Sepinwall
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Historian. Human. Book babies: Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film & Video Games; Abbé Grégoire & the Fr. Rev.; Haitian History: New Perspectives
Aviel RoshwaldI am feeling quite content.
DeanObeidallahAs you read about Holocaust denier/white supremacist Nick Fuentes who had dinner with Trump keep in mind that next week Elon Musk will be allowing Fuentes back on Twitter. Why would any advertiser want to be associated with a platform featuring Holocaust deniers?
Tucker TeagueIf you enjoy someone's post on #Mastodon go ahead and click the star. If someone tells you that's meaningless because there's no #algorithm, ignore them. Sure, boost the post too if you want others to also see the post, but don't think telling someone you like what they posted is somehow unimportant. In real life I don't tell someone, "good job," or "well said," or "I love that," for the sake of some algorithm, I do it because I'm human and they are too. It's fundamental to being truly social.
amanda 📚 bookishbrews.comapparently this bookshop.org free shipping goes until Monday! which means you still have time to support global majority authors and independent bookstores while getting free shipping!
if you dont know where to start to read more bipoc & diverse books, my bookshop store hopefully can give you a place to start (linked up thread) or my website is entirely dedicated to helping you connect with more diverse books.
seriously no excuses! read diverse books
RoYou know, the thing that gets my attention concerning how safety concerns have become a sticking point as more and more people join the fedi is how white people are defiantly defending what is rather than envisioning what could be.
The refusal to see outside of what they see is best is one of the most defining characteristics of white people in the fedi and one of the main obstacles to progress, as we are clearly seeing the need for an improved fedi experience across the board.
This is a microcosm of what Martin Luther King Jr. said about how the white moderate is the greatest obstacle to progress because they continuously side with order over justice.
Any thinking person can see we need better adaptable experiences in the fedi and platforms that better serve the safety concerns of the people.
The way I see white people bitterly fighting to keep a status quo that no one agreed on is the main driver of conflict as the fediverse grows, underscoring yet again the challenge of this space is not technology.
It's culture. And whiteness, as Du Bois identified years ago, is committed to fighting to assert itself in yet another new space.
The refusal to see outside of what they see is best is one of the most defining characteristics of white people in the fedi and one of the main obstacles to progress, as we are clearly seeing the need for an improved fedi experience across the board.
This is a microcosm of what Martin Luther King Jr. said about how the white moderate is the greatest obstacle to progress because they continuously side with order over justice.
Any thinking person can see we need better adaptable experiences in the fedi and platforms that better serve the safety concerns of the people.
The way I see white people bitterly fighting to keep a status quo that no one agreed on is the main driver of conflict as the fediverse grows, underscoring yet again the challenge of this space is not technology.
It's culture. And whiteness, as Du Bois identified years ago, is committed to fighting to assert itself in yet another new space.
mekka okereke 
The analogy that several Black users have said, is "Mastodon is the digital equivalent of fleeing 'regular' racism in the deep South, just to experience 'racism doesn't happen here!' racism in Boston." 🙂🙃
Mastodon has more cultural norms around not talking about racist abuse, than around preventing it from happening. I don't know how to convince y'all that this is bad.
So yeah, this creates an opening for centralizers.
Lucas HaasisThis Thursday, 7-8pm CET, we welcome Angus A. A. Mol at the Games & History lecture series. We will be discussing his new project https://playfultimemachines.com Angus is currently finishing up the project https://pastatplay.com He is active in https://value-foundation.org, an interdisciplinary collective of archaeologists, historians, museologists and game designers. I am very, very much looking forward to this session!
#gaming #history #histodons #AKGWDS @histodons
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/games-history-geschichte-tickets-457469372207
Same here with me - if you followed me in the last week, please refollow, as it didn't go through on our server! #histodons
Cassandra Good (@[email protected])
Hi #histodons, the hcommons server had some issues and we've lost recent days of post and new followers. If you followed me in the past week, please refollow--and boost this!
Cassandra GoodHi #histodons, the hcommons server had some issues and we've lost recent days of post and new followers. If you followed me in the past week, please refollow--and boost this!