• maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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      A mastodon admin (I think) spoke about their attempt to get her on Mastodon. The story was that she wanted to be where her audience are. And, IIRC, there was some concern over how Mastodon has treated BIPOC.

      Now that’s all a vague memory of some hearsay, but it all also completely tracks. There are plenty of BIPOC on Masto talking about how it isn’t great for them.

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        Wait how has Maatodon treated BIPOC? Is this about the users or a particular instance? Frankly I had never heard about this, I frequently use mastodon and it’s really welcoming of queer people (I feel overall, but at the very least it is true comparedd with the rest of social media) so I didn’t think there would be an issue with POC.

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          I’m not the right person to talk to. You should find the vocal BIPOC on masto.

          But overall, mastodon is pretty white, in part because of the relative Euro-centrism of the place. And so whenever anti-BIPOC issues come up there is apparently a good deal of awkward defensiveness and silencing that goes on.

          Beyond that, while there are trans/LGBT safe instances etc, no such thing really exists for BIPOC and the best attempt at one was shut down because, IIRC, of abuse issues. So generally, BIPOC people feel that their safety isn’t catered to well by admins and the software at a system wide level. A major issue being how a new BIPOC can sign up without worrying about getting abused on their new instance.

          These are just my vague impressions though as a white person.

          Structurally though, it kinda tracks, because mastodon is a pretty quiet suburban like platform while I sense that BIPOC rely on connecting with their community online. From what I can tell, white trans/LGBT people find safety on mastodon by finding smaller safe instances with defensive moderation and defederstion strategies. That hasn’t happened for BIPOC and may not work either (???)

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            Interesting … two downvotes out of 9. I think this is what BIPOC people try to talk about … this issue seems to just prompt some ire from some people.

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        @maegul that’s a shame. I think Mastodon is far more inline with her ideals. I understand, as a politician, wanting to be where her audience is but shunning Mastodon entirely seems like an unusual choice.

        I can’t speak for the mistreatment part. If BIPOC say this is the case, I believe them. I hope we have improved since then.

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          It’s an interesting question though … is it really inline with her ideals?

          As a left wing politician, however much she cares about social justice and bringing down bad capitalism, she may not care too much for decentralised social media software that isn’t the easiest to use or understand.

          To her, the “town square”, even if it is owned or funded by evil people, so long as the people are there, might be a good thing.

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      I would’ve thought so, but the speed she jumped on Bluesky was pretty telling too. I love AOC but she’s definitely only going to go where “the normies” or “cool kids” go. Regardless of how problematic they are… She’s still on Twitter after all.

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    @renwillis @fediverse yes! that’s what it is. Instagram comments but a dedicated app. that’s why you can’t do hashtags, that’s why you can’t search post content. it is a rushed half baked copy paste of the comment section

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    Oh fuck, I hate instagram, and I don’t want to see the “intellectual opinions” of my fucking dumb-wit acquaintances who will try hard enough to be viral on a new platform for straight up a month by commenting on everything.