Since black Twitter is a thing, is there a black Mastodon yet?
@ghost_bird @Malin Guilty as charged. I absolutely making a safe space for Black folks. It’s not exclusive, but it will prioritize our safety on the web.
@Malin Kinda, but not a specific server as far as I know, but there was a huge influx from black twitter for a while, a lot of youth, not a lot of them stuck around though.
But you can definitefly find other black folx on here.
I'll help with boost <3
@maloki @Malin The comment I most often get from black twitter friends about Mastodon is, “I have to know where the black folk are before I go somewhere. Show me where we are and I’ll come check it out.”
(I do know there’s no clear and easy path from where we are to there! It’s just a comment I feel needs amplifying.)
@brooke yeah, def, I hear it too. And I've suggested to some communities that they try hosting a mastodon server, which ofc is it's own threshold. But me as a white girl can't really host the community for them, you know?
But when there was a huge wave, a lot of them just came to mastodon.social. Dunno if it helps.
Some Black/PoC recommendations from me:
@Are0h
@Altruest
@gingerroot
@webinista
@cypheroftyr
@creatrixtiara
and @sherm 's art is amazingly diverse <3
@maloki bless and thank you for the FF but i do want to be clear that i am indeed white!
@gingerroot Shit, wait, I confused you with someone else >_<
@maloki no worries!!
@gingerroot fuck, I knew I'd screw it up :D
@Malin @brooke I know @Are0h is doing things. I have also lobbied @jackyalcine to put an instance on black.af (because come on, that domain name) and he has said it's on his radar, but I think he has a lot of plates spinning.
@gamehawk @Malin @brooke @Are0h @jackyalcine black.af has to be claimed, it's just wrong if this doesn't happen imho @guerrillarain
@shoutcacophony @Malin @brooke @Are0h @jackyalcine @guerrillarain Oh, Jacky has the domain, he just hasn't put an instance there.
(Yet.)
Yeah, it's definitely happening! Granted, the domain's actually going to be used for my consulting arm but I'll still have the host up and running there.
@Malin we're small but we're here
@Malin there are certainly black folk here. What do we need to do to get black mastodon to be a thing from here?
@Malin #blackmastodon is a tag but only a few toots showing up for it.
@Malin instance.business describes itself as a safe space for nonwhite people? So there should be some overlap
@Malin +1 for black fediverse
@Malin There was at one time, however people being people kinda broke that up. I don't know if there was new instance set up
@Malin There was for a day or two about a year ago after the birdsite did something especially awful. It was cool, but like most of the reaction influxes, the tide rolled back.
@Malin I am black enough for the entire Mastodon fediverse. ✊🏿
@Malin Not yet, but there are people working towards it.
pinging @Are0h , if it’s not presumptuous of me?