Draft! Work in progress! Feedback welcome!

Feedback welcome! Here’s the TL;DR list

  1. Listen more to more Black people
  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

Other suggestions?

  • Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.org
    6·
    2 months ago

    Other suggestions:

    Social problems cannot be solved by technical solutions e.g. “turning the racism off” by filtering or blocking others as a user (run from any instance that takes this approach instead of defederating or blocking at an instance level).

    If your instance is shit and gets blocked, don’t complain that it got blocked, either complain to the admins of the shit instance or move instances.

    Boost the things they say about their experiences or the experiences of others and boost things they care about because likely it’ll benefit people at the very least by raising awareness.

    • The Nexus of Privacy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      Thanks, all good points, I’ll try to work them in! The boosting is somewhat tricky, the general guideline is “boost posts tht people want boosted, don’t boost posts that they don’t want boosted”, but it’s not always clear which is which (unless they. have “Please boost” in there somewhere)

      • Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.org
        0·
        2 months ago

        Another good point is as white people we have a responsibility to figure out if racists can see a boost. In that case we need to figure out a way to stop that harm immediately either by removing certain followers or blocking/reporting etc.

  • tomato@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 month ago
    • Ad. 1. I don’t care what’s your skin color as it doesn’t matter when we discuss things.
    • Ad. 2. Literally makes zero sense. If something is post-worthy, why would anyone not post it just because of being white?
    • Ad. 3. I do report racism no matter who’s the victim.
    • Ad. 4. I don’t care who’s behind project if it’s good and worth supporting.

    Other suggestion: Stop trying to force others to comply with your “solutions” to problems that only exist inside your mind and what’s important don’t even apply to media that doesn’t let you see or know the other person. I know nothing about 99,9% of people on Lemmy hence let me judge them and their projects by what they write and not by who they are “in real life”. It’s almost like you are trying to make people ashamed for that they were born white.