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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/25142642

And if you're not sure why so many people on Fosstodon are considering moving, there are some links in the reply.

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And if you're not sure why so many people on Fosstodon are considering moving, there are some links in the reply.

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A deep dive into @FediForum's last-minute cancellation and the opportunities for a collective learning experience, catalyst for change, and perhaps an inflection point -- for FediForum and the broader ecosystem.

Contents:

  • A last-minute cancellation has a big impact
  • Acknowledgment, apology, amends, action
  • "The Fediverse was built by many trans and nonbinary people"
  • "Underrepresentation of marginalized communities"
  • "Anti-Black incidents and lack of follow-up"
  • Now what?
  • Appendix: FediForum's response
  • Terminology notes
  • Notes (with additional references, examples, deeper dives into related points that I don't want to clutter the main post up with, and occasional snark)
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This was originally going to be a #FediForum session ... oh well. But why let the FediForum organizers' screwups sabotage a worthwhile conversation? We decided to go ahead with the discussion anyhow. Here's the notes.

Feedback welcome! If you'd prefer to respond anonymously, here's a CryptPad form (it takes a few seconds to load, so don't panic; and it's kind of long, but all the questions are optional).

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A summary of what I heard in a bunch of meetings with organizers.

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Feedback welcome!

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There's a lot of detail here. If you'd rather not deal with the complexity up front, and just want to get started as quickly as possible, there's a table of contents up front -- feel free to skip ahead!

And as always, feedback is welcome!

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There's a lot of detail here. If you'd rather not deal with the complexity up front, and just want to get started as quickly as possible, there's a table of contents up front -- feel free to skip ahead!

And as always feedback is welcome!

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21234278

Excellent article by Afsaneh Rigot, author of the Design from the Margins methodology.

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Excellent article by Afsaneh Rigot, author of the Design from the Margins methodology.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

This bill can't pass without Democratic support ... but last week, over 50 Democrats voted for it! It didn't quite pass, but now they're trying again ... so please, if you're in the US, please call your Congresspeople!

Here's EFF's action alert. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-not-to-weaponize-the-treasury-department-against-nonprofits

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt is a good overview (not by me!) of issues that the November 2022 wave ran into. What's frustrating is that so many of these are very similar to the issues the April 2017 wave ran into!

Release 4.3 did some work on the recommended accounts, that's good, but the problems start even before that. What instance to sign up to? Most people have better experiences on smaller instances that match either their interests or their geography ... but how to find them? mastodon.social is (for most people) kind of meh -- certainly not the worst, but it's not all that well-moderated, and it's big enough that the local feed isn't useful for finding interesting people or stuff -- and that's now the default. Also it took over a year to get 4.3 out; I get it, they're a small team, some stuff turned out to be a lot harder than expected, and they had to deal with a bunch of security patches in the interim ... still, that means progress is frustratingly slow.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Bluesky certainly provides another option ... when Apartheid Clyde led to Twitter getting shut down in Brazil, there was a small bump in Mastodon's numbers, but a much bigger influx to Bluesky. Then again Bluesky's addressed a lot of problems people coming to Mastodon in 2022 had, and Mastodon hasn't, so if everybody had come to Mastodon instead the pattern would likely have repeated itself and most of them wouldn't have stuck around.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the perspectives. Agreed that it's fundamentally a social issue.Fedi's culture has evolved a lot over time; Before Mastodon: GNU social and the early fediverse has quotes and links from back in the day, including discusison of the 2016 wave of channers and GamerGaters joining GnuSocial. The 2016-7 Mastodon wave was very different, a lot of queer and trans people, but also had major problems with race -- the article links to "Dogpiling, weaponized content warning discourse, and a fig leaf for mundane white supremacy" which has a bunch of discussion and links about that. So it got whiter. Flash forward and there's the 2022/23 wave of people looking for a Twitter alternative ... a lot of Black people looking at Mastodon were greeted by the N word so unsurprisingly didn't stick around; many white people had more positive experiences, and talked about how nice everybody was, So it got whiter. Then there was mid-2024 wave of Redditors ... what are the demographics of the people who came? The people who stayed? So I'm not sure it's primarily a matter of miroblogging being a machine for manufacturing hot takes.

I certainly think there's an opportunity for changing the dynamics. One possible direction is a split between regions that are actively working on it, and get better over time, and regions that are business as usual, with fairly weak connections between them. Time will tell!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Thanks very much for wading in, @[email protected] - and thanks again to all the mods for taking action here. Any thread about racism in the fediverse becomes evidence of racism in the fediverse, sigh.

More positively, though, I got some very helpful feedback here from @[email protected], @[email protected] and @[email protected] ... which is appreciated, and testimony to the fact that clearly a lot of people on Beehaw do get it!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Thanks much! And yeah, comes with the territory. Check out the discussion on lemmy.world - https://lemmy.world/post/18261593

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

If there was a rule I violated, my apologies! But I also didn't see anything about it.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Thanks much, I very much appreciate the supportive words! And, great analysis, thanks for that as well. Although, if you think things are bad here you should see the lemmy.world thread, where it's down to -47. And just imagine how much worse it would be if I were Black!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

From the very beinning of the article, in the quote from tillshadeisgone:

"In recent days, folks such as @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected] ... and many, MANY more have been speaking out about how toxic fedi culture is for Black folks and how the tools we have access to just aren't enough."

There are also several links to articles with a lot more detail on the fediverse's history of anti-Blackness.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

No, "color blindness" perpetuates structural racism. Here's one study looking at that. Seeing Race Again Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines has a lot more, although it's focused on law and academia.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Yeah, the section on "Listen more to Black people" didn't really cover the challenges on Lemmy. I added this:

If you're on a platform like Lemmy which doesn't yet have similar hubs, it's more challenging. One option is to use other social networks, news aggregators, and search engines to find articles, papers, and videos by Black people – and post them yourself to help others listen.

How's that?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Today almost no instances run ads (misskey is as far as I know the only platform that's got support for ads) and Threads is the only one that does tracking. I'm using "free fediverses" the way https://freefediverse.org/index.php/Main_Page does -- instances that reject federation with Meta.

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