can I say that it's *really distressing* to hear POC say that they might as well leave mastodon.
Not distressing as in "I'm made anxious by hearing their complaint", (though it does make me anxious), "and wish I didn't have to hear their complaints"
It's distressing that we haven't made a space that listens to their voices and that things are bad enough that "I might as well go back to TWITTER" makes sense, like twitter is a more welcoming place for them.
THAT'S A PROBLEM
@tcql honestly?
I'm not entirely sure why the idea that Twitter could be a more welcoming space for _anybody_ has to be this extremely shocking idea.
Like sure it's terrible for some people, but great for others! Just like any social media network! Hell I've had much better experiences on REDDIT than Mastodon. yknow.
The whole "we're better than Y site" mentality drives me nuts coz it often comes from sites where I've faced a fair bit of trouble.
@creatrixtiara @tcql It's shocking because being safer is one of the core goals of the project. And also because we confuse software, and who is currently using the software. For example, Mastodon would allow a group of activists to create an instance dedicated to the BLM movement, and you wouldn't depend on some white CEO's approval and tolerance, it'd be entirely within your hands and control. Given this potential I do consider it shocking that folks would want to go back to Twitter... but!
@tcql @creatrixtiara but: I understand that Twitter has a lot more people and already established communities of PoC and it's much easier to get support there currently. This is what I've been told by some folks who left for reasons like this.
Hearing it is of course always heartbreaking. But I'm not sure what I can do to help with this.
@gargron uh you're not superman. it depends on people who run instances actually upholding their own CoC's (be that enforcing against their own users, or staying on top of blocking instances that are hostile to their CoC)
and on the rest of the community standing up to protect marginalized people. you can't tech your way out of people being shitty. a decentralized network gives us the tools we need to to address it, people just need to actually address it.
