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   Black Aziz Anansi :vm: (blackazizanansi@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 04:24:12 JST Black Aziz Anansi :vm:

   How does the fediverse plan on becoming more diverse?

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     The Duke of Fall :d6: (valthonis@dice.camp)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 04:24:13 JST The Duke of Fall :d6:

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     @BlackAzizAnansi Better be more than just dropping the "Fe"...

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     Hat. AuDHD cat. 😷n95 🍉 💔 (cathat@mstdn.party)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 20:40:28 JST Hat. AuDHD cat. 😷n95 🍉 💔

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     • Inaya Shujaat عنايه شجاعت 🇳🇿
     • Christine Luc

     @inaya @jdp23 @christineluc @BlackAzizAnansi no reason to CW stuff just because it makes other people uncomfy. CW is for the benefit of preventing harm. Preventing education would be harmful.
     Im not pretending that it doesn't make me uncomfortable to read such things. It's supposed to. People shouldn't be comfortable with bigotry. I want learn how to stop being part of the problem.

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     Hat. AuDHD cat. 😷n95 🍉 💔 (cathat@mstdn.party)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 20:40:31 JST Hat. AuDHD cat. 😷n95 🍉 💔

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     • Christine Luc

     @jdp23 @christineluc @BlackAzizAnansi
     The white people wanting content warnings for description of racism especially can go
     i can understand that some POC would want to content warning racism for the benefit of other people who suffer it. White people need to see it

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     Inaya Shujaat عنايه شجاعت 🇳🇿 (inaya@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 20:40:31 JST Inaya Shujaat عنايه شجاعت 🇳🇿

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     • Christine Luc

     @jdp23 @CatHat @christineluc @BlackAzizAnansi I don’t CW my posts on islamophobia. I got kicked off the main NZ instance because of it. The white, non-Muslim mod just couldn’t handle it. Made him feel uncomfortable.

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     Hat. AuDHD cat. 😷n95 🍉 💔 (cathat@mstdn.party)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 20:40:33 JST Hat. AuDHD cat. 😷n95 🍉 💔

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     • Christine Luc

     @jdp23 @christineluc @BlackAzizAnansi i would prefer to lose some people.

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     Jon (jdp23@indieweb.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 20:40:33 JST Jon

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     • Christine Luc

     @CatHat As would I. On Facebook I helped support a POC-led group of admins who decided to transform a "white liberal" group to an actively anti-racist group, starting with more active moderation and threads focusing on racial justice education. At least 10% of the people in the group left. And you know what? That was a good thing!

     @christineluc @BlackAzizAnansi

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     Jon (jdp23@indieweb.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 20:40:34 JST Jon

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     • Christine Luc

     @christineluc yeah really! And white people telling people of color to CW their posts about racism, and casual racism in comments, and the list goes on.

     Are the reply guys on that instance or elsewhere? If they're elsewhere, then hachyderm could be a good instance to be part of the "subset" I talked about. But if the hachyderm community is filled with guys like that, then it's big enough that'll be hard to turn around without a major effort (and willingness to lose people)

     @BlackAzizAnansi

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     Christine Luc (christineluc@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 20:40:41 JST Christine Luc

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     • Jon

     @jdp23 @BlackAzizAnansi I believe I'm on one of those instances and I've heard of other such instances

     Nevertheless there seems to be an onslaught of reply guys who intentionally create unwelcoming atmospheres through outright hostility, debating semantics, or nitpicking specific words for the heck of it

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     Jon (jdp23@indieweb.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 20:40:42 JST Jon

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     • Christine Luc

     @christineluc That's also my impression of the last 6+ years -- at least of the entrentched power structure.

     @BlackAzizAnansi One possible approach is to have a region of the fediverse that starts with the subset of instances and people who want to prioritize equity and justice as well as diversity. Otherwise I can't see how to overcome the entrenched whiteness (etc) -- it gets harder and harder to change systems as they grow.

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     Christine Luc (christineluc@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 20:40:43 JST Christine Luc

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     @BlackAzizAnansi My impression in the last 7 months is that it's implicitly trying not to