5 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people
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Anti-Blackness is a long-term problem in the fediverse. Now's a good time to start changing that.

Feedback welcome! Here’s the TL;DR list

  1. Listen more to more Black people
  2. Post less – and think before you post
  3. Call in, call out, and/or report anti-Blackness when you see it
  4. Support Black people and Black-led instances and projects

Other suggestions?

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3411·
    4 months ago

    Have you seen a lot of racism towards black people on the fediverse? Why are you spamming this everywhere? It doesnt make much sense telling people not to post on a platform that needs it more than anything.

    • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
      17·
      4 months ago

      Have you seen a lot of racism towards black people on the fediverse?

      Yes.

      It doesnt make much sense telling people not to post on a platform that needs it more than anything.

      It doesn’t make much sense commenting here without reading the actual post so that you know what the synopsis means by “post less”.

      Jesus H. Fuck, you’re boring.

      • Vytle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        612·
        3 months ago

        No on god I agree with sanctus. I’m a triple minority and I have not seen any bigotry on the fediverse.

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
          10·
          3 months ago

          just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist

          it might mean your mods do a great job, it might be that you don’t hang out in communities that draw chuds, it might be any many more things! it definitely means you don’t see the whole fedi at once.

          but this shit does still exist

    • The Nexus of Privacy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      From the very beinning of the article, in the quote from tillshadeisgone:

      “In recent days, folks such as @ErickaSimone@mastodon.social, @KimCrayton1@dair-community.social, @timnitGebru@dair-community.social … and many, MANY more have been speaking out about how toxic fedi culture is for Black folks and how the tools we have access to just aren’t enough.”

      There are also several links to articles with a lot more detail on the fediverse’s history of anti-Blackness.

      • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1512·
        4 months ago

        In 1 year of being on Lemmy, I think this post is the first one to bring up the topic of identity of Fediverse participants in any form (besides an OP if identity is the original topic).

        (Maybe I’ve just managed to steer clear of communities that exist solely to discuss identity hatred?)

        AFAIAC, y’all are genderless, faceless, amorphous thought bubbles writing words that compete exclusively on the merits of the weight of their arguments. Y’all might as well be LLMs, whose identity is essentially an NVIDIA card and whatever corner of the internet was scrapped. Anyway… The identity of commenters has no place on the fediverse. They are either off topic, ad hominem, or anecdotal data points exclusively (again, original topics of identity being a distinct exception).