Just briefly logged into mastodon and my mentions are mostly people debating my experiences here and whether I was entitled to tweet about them, and I just want to say, I was called slurs for days by people on *other instances* and received a death threat saying that they would do to me what was done to Emmett Till.
Anyone discussing any of this like *I* did something wrong, including by talking about it, is a fucking dipshit.
Have a fabulous fucking day.
I’m disgusted that protecting the reputation of the platform is more important to some people — including some Black people, what the actual fuck — than making sure people are safe, physically and emotionally.
That’s some nasty shit.
And to the “it’s just growing pains/join the right instance” crowd: Black people shouldn’t need a fucking Green Book to navigate the physical or virtual world.
But I hope everyone’s happy, I’ve said it here! Yay 😵💫
It’s easy for a bunch of people to sit around and theorize about growing pains when you’re not the one who has to wonder about what that noise is outside your house
Logging in to see that several replies to this thread are white people being white, complete with “you just have to live with it” and “it depends on your instance” and “are you using the reporting functions”
No I have a PhD in physics and have been using online interfaces since around 1989, so I don’t understand how software or whiteness works 🤡
Exhibit A. You’re lucky I can’t properly quote toot you.
People who are genuinely concerned with building good communities in the Fediverse are people who are concerned with how to solve the problems being raised.
The rest of you are fine with virtual redlining, which is to say, you’re racists.
Everyone is looking for a single admin to blame. The account of mine that was attacked wasn’t even the blacktwitter one.
This is a structural problem. Anyone choosing to act like it’s an individual problem is contributing to the problem.
