But I hope everyone’s happy, I’ve said it here! Yay 😵💫

It’s easy for a bunch of people to sit around and theorize about growing pains when you’re not the one who has to wonder about what that noise is outside your house

Logging in to see that several replies to this thread are white people being white, complete with “you just have to live with it” and “it depends on your instance” and “are you using the reporting functions”

No I have a PhD in physics and have been using online interfaces since around 1989, so I don’t understand how software or whiteness works 🤡

Exhibit A. You’re lucky I can’t properly quote toot you.

https://mastodon.deepthot.org/@denebeim/109393969374948763

People who are genuinely concerned with building good communities in the Fediverse are people who are concerned with how to solve the problems being raised.

The rest of you are fine with virtual redlining, which is to say, you’re racists.

Everyone is looking for a single admin to blame. The account of mine that was attacked wasn’t even the blacktwitter one.

This is a structural problem. Anyone choosing to act like it’s an individual problem is contributing to the problem.

https://glitch.social/@wilbr/109394199061019011

Replies like this are actually awful https://mastodon.lol/@NurseTonyF/109394445591635012

The white tears have arrived https://mastodon.lol/@NurseTonyF/109394628173684917

And the calls for *me* to be more understanding of other people’s experiences on a thread about … checks notes … me experiencing a racist death threat https://witches.live/@mharr/109394782377811331

Keep it up, I will show you all who you are.

I want people to look at the responses and how much time it takes to manage repeating the same thing over and over and dealing with all the micro aggressions and ask yourself: is this what Black people should do with our time?

I’m not doing this shit with you guys every day. More power to the folks who have been for years now. We all choose our battlegrounds I guess. Hopefully you see why I am choosing not to volunteer for this before I have to.

And if you don’t? Welp.

White people who want to engage with actual solutions: I am a fan of @schock’s work and suggestions and she makes some important interventions here: https://mastodon.lol/@schock/109383950563020172

Here’s a fantastic interview about Twitter and Mastodon with @shengokai https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon/

And I’ve documented my experience here in this Twitter thread https://twitter.com/ibjiyongi/status/1590871183503024128?s=46&t=SBCEHRiM1ikjxU8yAKYVug

There are lots of POC who have been in the Fediverse for years raising problems, so all this white innocence about how “we didn’t know this was a problem” is bullshit.

Also we are the species that worked out the mass of the Higgs Boson but you guys want me to believe that the problems people have been raised can only be solved by instance hopping and blocking? Lol ok sure, Karen Jan Chad

Small scale, voluntary content moderation is not a solution. And yes, I donate to my instance for maintenance. https://twitter.com/ibjiyongi/status/1595059216506568705?s=46&t=SBCEHRiM1ikjxU8yAKYVug

Just briefly logged into mastodon and my mentions are mostly people debating my experiences here and whether I was entitled to tweet about them, and I just want to say, I was called slurs for days by people on *other instances* and received a death threat saying that they would do to me what was done to Emmett Till.

Anyone discussing any of this like *I* did something wrong, including by talking about it, is a fucking dipshit.

Have a fabulous fucking day.

I’m disgusted that protecting the reputation of the platform is more important to some people — including some Black people, what the actual fuck — than making sure people are safe, physically and emotionally.

That’s some nasty shit.

And to the “it’s just growing pains/join the right instance” crowd: Black people shouldn’t need a fucking Green Book to navigate the physical or virtual world.