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   Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 10:22:36 JST Sexy Moon

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   • Karen Wyld
   @KarenWyld you probably don't want to hear this but it's because corporate platforms monetize and promote strife and conflict with their algorithms and we don't have those here lol. so people just talk about whatever they actually want.
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     Karen Wyld (karenwyld@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 10:22:37 JST Karen Wyld

     of all the social media platforms I'm on (Twitter, Instagram, Bluesky) - Mastodon is consistently the most apathetic towards human rights, equity, antiracism, decolonisation, anti-apartheid, Indigenous rights, land back, justice etc.

     Time and time again, whenever something big happens (deaths in custody, apartheid, anti-war protests, crimes against humanity, occupation), people on all the other platforms show support. But log into Mastodon, scroll hashtags or the fedi timeline, and it's like these events barely exist.

     I don't know why. Mastodon is not significantly whiter or more middle-class than the other platforms. It's not being run by a corporation. And yet, it's the most apathetic and least radical space.

     White moderates are (often dangerously) apathetic. And Mastodon will never be my true online home.