5 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people
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Anti-Blackness is a long-term problem in the fediverse. Now's a good time to start changing that.

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

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

Other suggestions?

  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
    47·
    3 months ago

    Also, while we’re here. Let’s call out instances that don’t update their Lemmy version because they want to make a point, even though doing so would bring quality of life improvements to black community members. Looking at you Beehaw and even Lemmy World.

    Also Lemmy.ml for turning into fuck ups. Being the second largest instance, especially one that was less mainstream in their beliefs, they just had to keep doing them. They were never going to be popular, but different and well run was enough. Then they started making questionable decisions and not explaining them. Which, being that they’re so well read, know never ends well. They had more time on their hands and started being overly involved in the instance and that hurts their community members in ways in which they’re too up their arse to take stock of. Step away from the admin panel, let your moderators moderate.

    • MrKaplan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      Us not upgrading has nothing to do with making a point.

      We’re aiming to run a stable instance, which can come at the cost of delayed updates.

      We didn’t update to 0.19.4, and a few weeks later 0.19.5 was released with a number of critical bugfixes.

      0.19.6 will have several more fixes for issues introduced in 0.19.4+, such as a fix for remote moderators updating local communities, allowing admins to filter modlog entries by moderator, as well as some performance issues reported by other instances.

      We usually wait for other instances to run the latest version for some time to allow bug reports to surface before we update ourselves.

      • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Off the top of my head… yes, in that they integrate tighter with Mastodon and thus increase the likelihood of a wider black audience partaking in discussions.