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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 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/fediverse

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15011909

Feedback welcome! Here's the TL;DR list

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

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[–] iopq 66 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Posting less is how you kill the whole idea of the fediverse

[–] CaptainSpaceman 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Im also wondering how the fediverse is toxic for black people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

From the article

Dr. Johnathan Flowers' The Whiteness of Mastodon, Ra’il I'Nasah Kiam and Marcia X's Blackness in the Fediverse, and the links in Dogpiling, weaponized content warning discourse, and a fig leaf for mundane white supremacy have some of the history.