@yacc143 @i_jayas @Gargron @mikebabcock That’s too late. Black folks are going to the big instances because that’s where a lot of people go, and they are getting alienated. We can’t expect new users to know what instances are the “good” ones.
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@yacc143 @i_jayas @Gargron @mikebabcock That’s too late. Black folks are going to the big instances because that’s where a lot of people go, and they are getting alienated. We can’t expect new users to know what instances are the “good” ones. 3 comments
@mikebabcock I was replying to the person who said that Black folks should just make their own server. I hope I don’t have to explain to people what a problematic message that is. I don’t know specifically what needs to be done to improve the moderation. I don’t know enough about what’s happening to say. @mikebabcock What I can tell you is that Black folks are seeing these misfires and some don’t want to come near the platform. I have a lot of Black friends I follow on Twitter and very few of them have come to Mastadon. I don’t think that’s a coincidence. |
@richburroughs I have a basic life philosophy of fixing things I can fix, instead of the ones I can't:
* We can do a better job of educating users on sign-up immediately.
* We can try to fix other peoples' moderation skills slowly.
* We can unfortunately never make the system faultless. Even with infinite effort.
* So we must deal instead with mitigation and best efforts.
I could be wrong however. Feel free to explain how.