@Gargron

Is there a reason for wanting to have racially segregated servers?

@hhardy01 Mastodon servers are formed around communities, and communities form around interests as well as identities. There's servers about tech and servers for LBGT people, there's servers for specific cities like Bonn, there's servers for people who speak Gaelic.

@Gargron

I support integration, not segregation.

@hhardy01 @gargron

It's not segregation to have a community around shared interests and experiences, doubly if it can operate as a place to speak a language that you otherwise would never have an opportunity to use.

@Mainebot @Gargron

If people have craft-centric instances that's much different than having racially segregated instances.

@hhardy01 @gargron

Artists haven't experienced attempted cultural genocide, and can engage with their interests freely. First nations have historically been the target of social and cultural genocide, not to mention literal actual genocide, and continue to suffer for it. Having a community to freely engage with your culture, language, and interests is a good thing and should be encouraged.

And they would still federate with everyone, as you doubtless understand, right?

@Mainebot @Gargron

The same could be said of many or most minority ethnic groups and conquered peoples.

Is that what you want, a constellation of racially segregated instances?

@hhardy01 @gargron

Are you American? That is literally the 100 level description of the cultural mosaic, and it's how minorities can retain their individual culture and beliefs while participating in the larger social system. It's how Canada tries to handle things, to varying degrees of success.