Anti-Blackness is a long-term problem in the fediverse. Now's a good time to start changing that.

Here’s the list:

  1. Listen more to more Black people – and amplify their voices
  2. Post less – and think before you post
  3. Call in, call out, and/or report anti-Blackness when you see it
  4. Support Black people and Black-led instances and projects
  5. Approach it intersectionally

The full article goes into detail, and also has links to anti-racism resources and appendices with a list of common mistakes to avoid and blocklist resources for moderators.

Thanks to everybody who gave feedback on earlier drafts!

  • flaviaEnglish
    7•4 months ago

    Holy shit the person who replied to you has this in their post history:

    Some YouTube channels for children are uploading obscene videos.

    According to the article, the videos feature nudity and possibly sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is unfortunately a fact of life, and it’s probably better that children recognise it, and see it condemned in the media they watch, than not know what it is at all. And you would have to be a puritan to think that children seeing naked people is somehow so terrible.

    Along with sealioning and a bunch of AI (like him being so excited about that recent deep fake stuff). In the last few days I’ve seen a lot of racist and transphobe shit on lemmy, despite having blocked quite a few people over my stay and comment sections being barren as a result

    • David GerardMEnglish
      8•4 months ago

      when we get a super bad take on an awful.systems sub, we tend to check their comment history in case they’re just having a bad moment. you will be unsurprised to hear that when it’s a bad take on race, it’s generally certain we rapidly find reason to ban them from the sub instantly.