The influential online community that gave rise to social movements like #BlackLivesMatter is now a "digital diaspora” in search of a new home.
The influential online community that gave rise to social movements like #BlackLivesMatter is now a "digital diaspora” in search of a new home.
That makes me sad to hear.
I don’t remember seeing any specifically anti-black sentiment, BUT as one of the “50% old white tech nerd gr[e]ybeards” mentioned by someone else, with a very limited set of account and hashtags follows, chances are I haven’t been in the right (wrong?) place to see it / call it out. Or I’ve been too naïve to notice.
Political and pro/anti-woke propaganda and things like that definitely exist on the Federated “tab” which almost certainly come with a side order of racism, but those people are everywhere online.
Maybe the self-enforced walled garden of only following trusted people and certain hashtags could work.
After all, the LGBT+ community seems to be doing fairly well on there (ditto furries), and if there’s one kind of prejudice, I’d be surprised if they’re not getting abuse too.
Yeah, it’s very sad.
The core of the issue is that it’s too easy for us privileged folks to suggest things like - and I’m not trying to pick on you at all here - that vulnerable people stay in any sort of “self-enforced walled garden” rather than robust moderation tools and the human resources to use them to their full potential.