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4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!) (privacy.thenexus.today)
submitted 4 months ago by thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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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

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[–] thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.ml 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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).

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

tl;dr there's no racism problem because you see everyone as a white man by default

[–] thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well said. Can I quote you in the revised draft?

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

sure, as long as you don't credit me for it!

[–] self@awful.systems 14 points 4 months ago

what quaint, 90s flavored racism this is

it can stay in the 90s

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago

so what you're saying is that people shouldn't be their whole selves in your presence because it makes you uncomfortable.