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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 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think your point about moderation tooling is worth a bullet point on its own. I think more tools for users to stay safe and for moderators to keep their instance safe would go a long way, and that there are people who would be willing and able to donate their time implementing them.

Also, the current draft is still pretty focused on Mastodon. I think it's worth talking more about how the problems (and solutions) are different on different platforms, or if not then talk about working on the problem for Mastodon/microblogging as opposed to "the fediverse."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the feedback! The revised draft will talk about Lemmy as well. I've talked about the software aspects in a lot of other posts (Mastodon and today's fediverse are unsafe by design and unsafe by default, for example, and there's a section on it Don't tell people "it's easy", and seven more things Kbin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon so don't want to go into it here, but maybe I'll add a link!