you know how we keep saying certain spaces are not safe for bipoc? wonder what that means? let me explain:
when we (bipoc) say shit that some folks find ... iffy* , they report us. now, if the admin team on our instances have our back, then we don't get silenced.
sounds reasonable, right? except ... white folks will warn us to take it easy when what we're saying is a rageful commentary on this racist as reality we live in. that doesn't make us feel safe because if our justifiable anger makes anybody uncomfortable, instead of sitting in that discomfort (or just fucking scrolling past), bigots will set us up to be silenced for them.
places like diaspora.im encourage that rageful expressive commentary because we get it. white admins won't ever get it. they're more concerned with keeping the peace than speaking truth to power. there are exceptions, but for the most part, the fedi is overtly white. and white folks cannot be trusted to allow us to speak truth to power because that makes white folks uncomfortable.
that's what we mean by safe.
@fyrfli If you don't mind me asking, how do you feel about there being more single user instances that sidestep the "need a techy admin to manage everyone" issue? My gut feeling is it could lead to more community blocklists and personal curation and skip needing to find "safe" instances, but I might be overly optimistic about it. I think it'd be neat if community was who you associated with rather than who owned your instance.
