you arent doing anyone any favors by calling point 2 just "post less" when the actual point of the article is: if you are white, post less about race, and think more before you post

FYI: I'm posting a non-sneer without an NSFW tag. I suspect that you might want to post this sort of article in the sister community !NotAwfulTech for non-sneering feedback; this community is explicitly for "big brain tech dude" authors who are posting "yet another clueless take."

While it would be pleasingly recursive to look at this article as such a "clueless take," I think it's clearly more well-researched than that. Also, while I personally don't like the concept of white allyship, I understand why it emerges: it takes longer to let go of one's beliefs than to embrace the people around you, and so it takes longer to let go of whiteness than to be okay with non-white folks. So, I'm not going to take that angle. I don't think it's okay to be white, but I also think that it takes a while for white folks to realize that they can stop being white.

With that all in mind, I think that it's worth pointing out that while all five suggestions are laudable, none of them address the structural and reputational problems at the heart of Mastodon. @sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems had a killer comment on the last draft (which I can't permalink because Lemmy is trash; it's in this tree) about how ActivityPub structurally allows harassment by allowing pseudonymous interactions. In my personal conversations with ActivityPub's architects, I got the sense that they didn't understand what we call The Reputation Problem: the paths via which you give reputational incentives to participants will be reinforced according to their rewards. This is also the root of my pessimism about related projects like Spritely Goblins.

(This reminds me that I need to flesh out the bullet point in my notes headlined "The Reputation Problem & A Theory of Generalized Fuckwittery". This generalizes the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, Homo economicus, etc. It's all obviously connected from a distributed-systems perspective: bad actors are getting paid for their bad actions by the system's structure!)

Further, it's not clear that the community's adaptations are sustainable. TBS can't seem to shed its TERFs and it should be obvious that any similarly-structured project will be too authoritarian for a large chunk of the community. Hashtags aren't private or moderated spaces, and any sort of hashtag usage council would immediately run into the same authoritarian issues. One of the disadvantages of Balkanization is that your neighbors, safely separated from you by geographic obstacles, will start talking shit about you, and you don't want to let them police your lands.

happy to see the draft get fleshed out. good writeup

As someone who is not a US citizen, I can't understand what it's all about. How could someone tell the color of the person who is participating? For me, everybody is just the same, and I can only judge them for what they're saying, not who they are.

1. Listen more to more Black people – and amplify their voices;

Isn't it already done independently of the skin color of the person?

2. Post less – and think before you post

I can only guess this point is lacking context.

3. Call in, call out, and/or report anti-Blackness when you see it

I can't say I have seen it, and I believe it happens a lot, so I guess people are reporting. That's the better point of the list!

4. Support Black people and Black-led instances and projects

If the message is good and promotes equality, normal people gravitate to it. Racist people will not care regardless of this text.

5. Approach it intersectionally

What?

I think OP might have a stalker, this level of attention from weird nerds is bizarre.

Pretty trash points ngl. Written from privilege imo.