The Whiteness of Mastodon (worth the read)
This is a fascinating read…and worth the time to explore. It covers a lot I had not considered or even knew being a latecomer. #TwitterMigration #Mastodon #Whiteness #BlackTwitter #harassment
The Whiteness of Mastodon https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon/
“Being queer does not insulate one cell from the inheritance of whiteness, although one can use one’s queerness as a shield from critique, as many Mastodonians have used by presenting the history of Mastodon as grounded in queer folks attempts to avoid the harassment on Twitter….
…Mastodon..will never be able to support a robust community of color like Black Twitter.
It might do so by virtue of creating, say, a Black instance. But that …risks ghettoizing the Black community in a federated space. All of the Black people go here and instances have the option of engaging with them or deeding from them…
You need to think about the very real dangers of a federated structure in a society organized around white supremacy. You could easily have an entire instance of right-wing white supremacists pop up that would engage in targeted harassment of users of color.”
The Whiteness of Mastodon (worth the read)
@mguhlin I’ll read this later. Not sure if I will agree with it overall, but I’ll read it.
The Whiteness of Mastodon (worth the read)
One question i have is, “How diverse are admins and moderators?”
« Don’t know. Never met any in person. There’s not any kind of record of ‘who’s a fediverse admin, what’s your demographics?’ list
Another is, “Is there a record of success and failure for incidents of inclusion and exclusion?”
«For instances or users? For instances, i don’t think anyone keeps records. For users, you’d have to ask each server’s admins(good luck with that) and see if they happenstance recorded anything like thaat.
I don’t know if those are even the right questions.
«Easier for me to respond to than the wall of text :)