This post about Mastodon's failures from @u2764 reads a little weird to me - there are casual mentions of POC, disabled people, other marginalised groups being driven off or discouraged from contributing to Mastodon about the same way as the queer developers that originally started it, but somehow ONLY the queer devs get mourned here? Like they were the most important minority group?
https://medium.com/@alliethehart/gameingers-are-dead-and-so-is-mastodon-705b535ed616
Were there no QPOC, queer disabled, queer + some other identity developers involved in the start of Mastodon? Were there no other non-queer minorities involved in the development of Mastodon? Is their erasure part of the reason Mastodon comes off as being very VERY white?
The "politics needs to be hidden" comment certainly comes off as being very questionable.
Is this (rather bizarre to me) hostility towards discussing politics on Mastodon to the point that ROT13 became some sort of "solution" the reason I got dogpiled to hell my first weekend here after talking about racial dynamics on Mastodon? What was the full story behind this? What sort of culture thinks talking about politics needs to be behind a content warning? Is me talking about the intersections of my life & society in need of a CW because it's political? what the hell?
@creatrixtiara Ugh. I was hopeful because the folks who introduced me to Mastodon are QTPOC but this is concerning and makes me wonder if the whiteness of open source might trickle over to here. I like the CWs for hiding spoilers, explicit images, and triggers, but obviously when it gets to "talking about the experiences of black lives is a trigger" we've gone off the damn deep end.
@queeractivist ooooooo who are they and can you recommend me some / introduce me? I've met a couple of other POC here but like a handful of QTPOC overall
@creatrixtiara Happy to introduce! Meet @khoshekh & @mxroo, a couple of awesome humans! Also @yellowibowtie.
@queeractivist @khoshekh @mxroo @yellowibowtie@witches.town hello hello :D (also hey I know Cordelia :D)
@creatrixtiara @khoshekh @mxroo @yellowibowtie "Introducing" people who already know each other, it's what I do best! :-D
@queeractivist I have one particular best friend who seems to know literally everybody, even those I didn't think he'd have any interactions with, he's kind of an Eldricth being that way
