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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 4 months ago by thenexusofprivacy to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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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?

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[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago

The design of ActivityPub (or at least Mastodon) doesn't exactly help here either, given that you can't see most of the replies unless you click through to the original instance.

It's way too easy to leave a reply to a post without realizing that 30 other people have already said the exact same thing. So when I wan't to avoid being repetitive I have to remember to click through.

[-] thenexusofprivacy 9 points 4 months ago

Yep. It probably accentuates Reply Guy-ism too. The underlying issues are social; technology can make things worse. This article focuses on the social aspects but I talked about some of AP's issues in the "And it's about the protocol too" section of Steps towards a Safer Fediverse

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