@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 aren't university educated etc. What we have is a college town. And like many college towns it very tolerant and nice ... but there are also huge blind spots, and gaps.
And this isn't something that can be fixed by being "nice" or "mindful" or whatever. 2/
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@futurebird @VaylLarkinPoet
I agree. The juiciness is not here yet. Activity can be sporadic/ attenuated +can have dry spells.
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@futurebird @VaylLarkinPoet ok I guess I'm different, I'm 72 with a grade 12, worked in retail and wholesale my entire life. Now retired, don't consider myself poor but far from rich. Oh and […]
@futurebird I feel the elitism a lot here. I thought Bluesky might be a less difficult place for a person from a rural, thinly-populated state to be, but it turned out to be much worse.
@futurebird @VaylLarkinPoet the college town analogy is a good one! I should know--I'm a college prof! (& WOC but not black)
weirdly, though this doesn't at all defy that analogy, most of my […]
@futurebird You may have noticed there was an effort to raise funds to make available for interested Black people to create instances and help onboard others in the community. Unfiortunately, […]
@futurebird @VaylLarkinPoet
Even “people of various non-western cultures” with tertiary-level formal education want to spend “precious & limited” time in places & spaces where they’re welcome. […]
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@VaylLarkinPoet
If we want open social media to be a meeting place for people of all class backgrounds, races, religions, and from all over the world that means it'd need to be "popular" ... […]
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