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Mastodon calls the categories - Topics
https://joinmastodon.org/servers

#BIPOC people have been making noise about this for a while to deafening silence or white excuses, which is why #Bluesky eats #Mastodon alive for non-white cultures.

I can only make so much noise myself, but the critical point is signup, if someone has no idea there are BIPOC instances at signup, they are probably going to signup at the flagship, not get the community they crave and move to Bluesky.
#Native #Indigenous

@Yehuda
> how can Native/Indigenous People signing up for the first time or even later choose a Native/Indigenous instance?

This reminds me of Johnathan Flowers 'whiteness of Mastodon' discourse;

https://www.techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon/

In reply to which I wrote this;

https://strypey.dreamwidth.org/3689.html

> no Native/Indigenous Mastodon category

What do you mean by "Mastodon category"?

> no Native/Indigenous instances listed at Join Mastodon

There may not be many yet. How can we help indigenous people create more?

@Yehuda There are hashtags like #Native #Indigenous #NDN #LandBack #Indigenize #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon #IndigenousCreatives #TurtleIsland. Connect to accounts you find under these tags and remember, that there is no big brother here who has already done everything for you. If you don't find it, found it!