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Check out the topics on Join Mastodon.
Imagine this - I'm talking about #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC People. In #Mastodon world, all Black People, all Indigenous People, all People of Color - THE GLOBAL MAJORITY of human beings on the planet are less important than Sports and one sports instance. Just keep going through the topics, don't make me compare any others...
Shame on you Mastodon.
#Racist #WhiteSupremacy #SocialMedia
https://joinmastodon.org/servers
Hi - I’m Hannah, I’m Mastodon’s new Community Director, I joined at the end of September.
First, thank you for your work to bring Indigenous/ BIPOC communities to #Mastodon, the #fediverse, and the #SocialWeb. I want to do everything I can to support you. I promise you that we will add this listing to join mastodon as soon as possible.
We have a significant backlog on the Server Directory, but we have a plan to fix it. Over the weekend we announced a first experiment in evolving onboarding (but it will not be the only one). Simultaneously we are starting to look at how to evolve the Server Directory too, including adding more kinds of server classifications or categories which can be used for other kinds of discovery methods. We also want to move the Server Directory to a PR-based backend so it’s more manageable to keep updated, and so the community can help us do it.
I am sorry we haven’t done this yet. We are working on it, and please do not hesitate to reach out to me to check in on progress. You can email me too: hannah[@]joinmastodon.org.
If you want to hear more, here is the talk where we announced the first experiment and shared more info about Server Directory (we will publish a blog post soon too). The relevant sections start at around 10:50.
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HJYRFF-tending-the-herd/
Happy birthday, friend :) more soon
@Yehuda
Wondering if we can get @haubles and/or @andypiper to give a read to this thread ⬆️ and address this
@ophiocephalic @Yehuda @andypiper
Thank you for tagging us in. responded here
@haubles
Thank you for responding!
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I'm writing followup posts on our Patreon too. I strongly encourage EVERYONE to grab a free subscription there to keep abreast of new posts on this subject. In the meantime:
https://TurtleIsland.social is invisible to Mastodon
It's time to make Mastodon friendly to non-white cultures
Mastodon gGmbH needs to lead this - list TurtleIsland.social and create an Indigenous category.
Mvto! (Thanks!)
#Native #Indigenous #BIPOC #Mastodon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/148563046
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And to be ultra clear, when I say #Mastodon or Mastodon world, I'm talking about the Mastodon organization.
The #Fediverse and the people on #Mastodon instances are amazingly great people. The org Mastodon is deep in #SystemicRacism #WhiteSupremacy
The org could easily go oops our bad, sorry and fix it pronto before it goes to the next level. But they won't even answer an email. They are a social media organization and they ignore hundreds and hundreds of boosts.
#Native #Indigenous #BIPOC
hmmm you're giving me an idea
maybe we can get some people to work on editing the wikipedia page with some of these critiques? not sure that will change anything at the top but the fact that there is nothing at all on the whole page reflecting the racism problems makes me think there's an opening, and i bet they do care about how they're portrayed there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)
edit, wowow the citation on fediblock... needs work, along the lines of:
https://logicmag.io/policy/blackness-in-the-fediverse-a-conversation-with-marcia-x/
What stops you from doing this on your own? Or at least go to the talk page to get some idea if others would find it helpful if a "critic" paragraph is added?
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Check out the topics on Join Mastodon.
Imagine this - I'm talking about #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC People. In #Mastodon world, all Black People, all Indigenous People, all People of Color - THE GLOBAL MAJORITY of human beings on the planet are less important than Sports and one sports instance. Just keep going through the topics, don't make me compare any others...
Shame on you Mastodon.
#Racist #WhiteSupremacy #SocialMedia
https://joinmastodon.org/servers
@inquiline Yes, i put this earlier today.
And i think one can directly reply without a wikipedia log-in (while it would be preferred to track in discussions) and if you have material just put it there.
