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@neitahchan @tillshadeisgone @blackfedi

Home Owners Association.

Associations of Home Owners with legal covenants set up in US suburbs like Levittown that were ostensibly to help maintain property values by setting guidelines for how often the lawn needed to be mowed and impose little fees and impose leins for not fixing issues and broken down cars in driveways and whatnot...

... but really were just used to keep Brown/Black People out of Suburbs that white people were flying to during white flight.

Now lots of (mostly white admined) fediverse instances are upset because Black instance admins and allies are basically going "if you do not answer these sorts of reports of racism coming from your instance, you will be put on a list with examples of the trash you allow to spread we and a lot of other instances will defederate from you".