Can we just keep Mastodon and its current instances in the furry circle just as they are now?
Yeah maybe UI needs an improvement or two but I mean the COMMUNITY. It feels WHOLESOME, TOGETHER, WARM, like a convention hotel lobby <3
No constant crime accusations plaguing my TL.
No hot takes against marginalized facets of the fandom.
No salt (or at least not that I've seen)
This is the purest I've seen the fandom in years.
Don't anyone DARE ruin this <3
@iBolt07 i dunno, i'd like to change things to make it so black folks don't feel as uncomfortable and outright endangered as they do on here
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@Felthry I haven't seen that yet :( Can you enlighten me?
From what I've seen it's felt very "equal grounds". I assume nothing about the person on the other end of the screen, and it's mutually reciprocated.
@iBolt07 we haven't seen much in the parts of fedi we frequent but an ongoing and consistent problem on here is that black folks and other POC get attacked a lot.
like, one of the early good fedi instances, one called playvicious.social, run by a black person who was and is well-regarded by pretty much everyone we know, got so much hate and abuse thrown at it that they had to just take down the instance. people would block-evade by making accounts on new instances just to attack people
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@iBolt07 there's been a lot of cases also of white people telling black people they need to CW their stuff about their experiences in what is very blatantly an "i don't want to hear about the racism you deal with"--CWs are not censorship, but can be used as such, and this attempt to force them on people is pretty blatantly meant to be
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@Felthry This honestly just, sadly, sounds like the same scabs of society that infiltrated Twitter and are too scared to say the quiet parts out loud in real life (cause you KNOW they'd get punched). Thankfully I have not seen it yet, but thank you for making me aware. I'll stand up for folks as I see it happening and spread voices that need to be heard regarding it ^^
@Felthry @iBolt07 Yeah. This is less a fedi problem and more a people problem, 'cause this shit's been happening for literally generations in reality, but that's by no means saying the problem should be tolerated.
In my experience? Remembering the paradox of tolerance, and remembering to listen to folks that don't look like the person you see in the mirror, will put you at least a little ahead of the curve. 
@LexYeen @iBolt07 we've seen people (BIPOC, that is) saying it's worse than they're used to on fedi and complaining about people saying "well i don't see it happening over here", so i'm not sure--it might be worse here and i'm not sure how to help fix it other than spreading awareness and encouraging people to actually listen
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@Felthry @iBolt07 I'm with y'all on this: I might not know The Ultimate Solution To The Problem Of Hateful Dickspigots, but I do know that telling folks that it's a thing and encouraging folks to listen when minorities say there's racists and other smouldering trash fires in human skin about can't hurt.
@LexYeen @Felthry Honestly, folks like that don't care what they say - they 9 times out of 10 don't actually mean what they say if faced with the opportunity - they just want attention. We can fix alot of problems by just tuning out the bad faith idiots and focusing on empowering voices to get the fence-straddlers and younger folks that haven't figured it all out yet <3
@LexYeen @Felthry fully agree with this. It's not as music a fedi problem as it is a rampant problem that reaches far past the confines of a single social network or medium. Sadly, on social networks, you will always have those that feel safe to share their extremist and awful views and then get celebrated for "touting free speech".
@iBolt07 there's also recently been a spate of white people replying to posts about racism with "not all white people", even when the person posting it *specifically* started the post with "white people don't reply"
which is just disrespecting boundaries *and* refusing to sit and listen rather than post kneejerk responses
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