I will never shut up about how the fediverse drove away an instance for black folks and by black folks. Not until the problems that lead to PV's shut down are fixed.
And I will never shut up about how key users and admins of Elekk contributed to that harassment. Fix your racism, you've already driven away too many people because of it.
Racism on Fedi | Describing Racists' use of Slurs
Like, these are the same people who accused an entire instance of queer furries of being racist because someone called a serial harasser a clown, which, by the way, created a shitstorm that ended up with Snouts collapsing after over a decade of operation.
All while on the same breath chased indigenous ex-Snouts users down on twitter to call them a "mangy mutt" or whose admin called PlayVicious a "minstrel show"
They are supposed to be our allies, and yet they merely added to the hundreds of knives already buried on the backs of BIPOC folk.
re: Racism on Fedi | Describing Racists' use of Slurs
@FreyaManibrandr ...what do you mean by "over a decade of operation"? i'm pretty sure snouts is newer than our presence on the fediverse
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re: Racism on Fedi | Describing Racists' use of Slurs
@Felthry From what I have heard it had a long history that lead to its creation, and then the instance kind of outgrew the origins.
re: Racism on Fedi | Describing Racists' use of Slurs
@Felthry The point is, it had been around for a long time, and it got taken away by petty bullshit that didn't need to happen.
re: Racism on Fedi | Describing Racists' use of Slurs
@FreyaManibrandr That I definitely agree with.
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re: Racism on Fedi | Describing Racists' use of Slurs
@FreyaManibrandr And I hope I didn't come across as nitpicking there. I agree with your points, I was just confused by the decade
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re: Racism on Fedi | Describing Racists' use of Slurs
@Felthry It's all good. I can get things wrong sometimes, or fail to be clear in my wording, and you do me no favours by not speaking up.
re: Racism on Fedi | Describing Racists' use of Slurs | Errata
Correction on this; It wasn't an admin, but they ARE friends with the person who hurled the racist epithet at PlayVicious.
They didn't act against the perp until the perp started turning his toxicity at a white person. Which yeah, it's still telling.