Seeing a lot of white people confused by the question. 🤔🤔🤔 To be clear, I'm not gonna tell anyone you can't respond, but this question was intended for BIPOC folks. ❤️
@misc This was definitely a problem last November when many of us joined. Sometimes when speaking only to BIPOC folks I will ask allies not to respond. People don't seem to get offended by that.
@misc It's like every other social media site. Find some people you can work with and roll with them. Don't forget to use block and mute. It's all the same. Follow hashtags. Levels of engagement is generally higher and usually, but not always of a better quality. above all, it's the internet. Act accordingly.
@misc Just had this come up and I still struggle to just welcome people aboard. I let them know it's dry here, can be hostile, wyt people are gunna say some ignorant things thinking they're being "helpful," and all us Black folk are kinda in these disconnected spaces from one another.
@misc Please come. It's not always safe, and there are white people with "good intentions" that will actually act kinda shitty. But your presence will help make the place better. And I'll enjoy connecting with you here.
Straight up - it's what you make it. Folks need to stop complaining that it's not as edgy, witty, radical, funny, Black, unified etc, etc as the bird site and do the work to make it that way.
@misc It's doesn't have the immediate social connectivity of twitter. Discovering other folx takes much longer. Good #fediverse intentions, but you may be harassed. Still worth persevering to break free of big tech surveillant capitalism that doesn't care about BIPOC.
@misc I'd tell them it's their account, and no one else's. And there are no legal obligations to use content warnings or alt text, except as a courtesy.
There are also people here who think they are able to police others. Beyond T&Cs, they are not.
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