@VaylLarkinPoet
The biggest problem is simply because there aren't enough Black people here. A related problem is that there is a kind of elitism that makes this unlikely to change. eg. "it's a good thing only nerds know how to use this place, wouldn't it be awful if the rabble showed up" type sentiments.
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2024-12-23 fkaOctaviaKeats ┃ 1👤
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Yes, I only knew about it due to feminist science fiction friends + had to wait for open invites to Wandering.Shop.
I was an enjoyer of "Black Twitter," not a true […]
2024-12-22 leon_p_smith ┃ edited ┃ 2🔗 1👤
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Incidentally, I listened to Behind the Bastards on Curtis Yarvin, Part I. That podcast claims Yarvin was radicalized in part by the "Eternal September" of 1993, […]
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Just FYI, I am not a programmer and the last OS I was really proficient in was XP, but am doing ok here.
I followed George Takei over from Xwitter about 2 years […]
2024-12-22 jawarajabbi ┃ 1#️ 1👤
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Rabble here! 👋 I am a dunce with tech but have been able to really get a lot out of this platform and I really, really love it.
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@futurebird @VaylLarkinPoet I don't really care how diverse or not fedi is per se, but I do often find elitist mentalities silly and annoying. If you want only a certain kind of person to come […]
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I’ve been on ‘app based’ social media since it started, and Usenet etc since the late 80s early nineties, witnessed the Eternal September of AOL and Usenet from […]
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Agreed.
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@VaylLarkinPoet
The lack of a critical mass on Black people on the fediverse is related to other problems: there aren't a lot of people who work in trades, people who are poor, people who […]
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