Genuinely trying to find more Black people up here.
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Genuinely trying to find more Black people up here. #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #USA
@CathyBikesBook Welcome. I'm definitely here. Been here since 2022.
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You're on the right track with those hashtags - now just add a few excellent accounts here & join the party. Looks like others are sharing some @'s so here's some folks I like hearing from
@IveyJanette
@popcornreel
@nullagent
@TheRoot
@blogdiva
@black_intellect
@BlackAzizAnansingl, there's definitely some jerques, but they're easily muted
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Genuinely trying to find more Black people up here. #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #USA
@CathyBikesBook Was gonna boost this for visibility, but honestly, now I just want to browse the linked accounts in the thread.
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Genuinely trying to find more Black people up here. #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #USA
@CathyBikesBook welcome! It’s nice to see this post boosted so widely, and with so many replies.
Unfortunately that also specifically highlights one of the major problems of the Mastodon/Fediverse and a very good reason Black people don’t have a large public presence here: the lists that eager people helpfully add in reply here can easily become lists for targeted harassment of those Black folks, in DMs or public messages, and there’s no recourse but to individually block the messaging accounts every time, or (sometimes) the entire server.
I was one of those “helpful” naïve white people a few years back when this same question came up then, cheerfully opting in folks who may have had very good reasons to not reply to threads like this. My response was up for a few hours before someone did the emotional work of explaining to me why this was dangerous, and that’s a task Black folks (and women, and other historic minorities) have to do continuously with clueless white people like me on here who think there’s no racism and the Fediverse is such a welcoming place.
Honestly I think the best way is going to be using hashtags in your profile or posts (like you already did), moving to a different server (mastodon.social has such bad moderation that many servers see limited or no posts from them), and then having posts decently boosted so that people who want to connect with you will, on their own terms.
I really hope this place can become a great community space for you and that better tools continue to be developed on Fedi for that purpose.
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Genuinely trying to find more Black people up here. #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #USA
@CathyBikesBook I'm here
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Genuinely trying to find more Black people up here. #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #USA
@CathyBikesBook
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@clayrivers @blogdiva @venitamathias @StillIRise1963 @dilmandila @nullagent @cykonot @ErickaSimone @macacator and many more. Just off the top of my head
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Thanks Ben for including me with all these fine and wonderful people. @CathyBikesBook @AstroHyde @blogdiva @venitamathias @StillIRise1963 @dilmandila @nullagent @cykonot @ErickaSimone @macacator -
Genuinely trying to find more Black people up here. #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #USA
@CathyBikesBook Sup? I'm not online alot, nor have I really embraced social media like that, but I fit the demographic you asked about.
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Some I don’t see mentioned yet
@shotgunseamstress
@KimCrayton1
@raventhesciencemaven
@ZekuZelalem
@popcornreel
@eosfpodcast
@KFuentesGeorge
@DeliaChristina
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Thanks Ben for including me with all these fine and wonderful people. @CathyBikesBook @AstroHyde @blogdiva @venitamathias @StillIRise1963 @dilmandila @nullagent @cykonot @ErickaSimone @macacator@clayrivers @CathyBikesBook @AstroHyde @blogdiva @venitamathias @StillIRise1963 @dilmandila @nullagent @cykonot @ErickaSimone @macacator
i'll go ask my wife's permission
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@CathyBikesBook Sup? I'm not online alot, nor have I really embraced social media like that, but I fit the demographic you asked about.
Welcome. It's kinda cool around here.@rayocentric hi. Thanks for commenting
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A couple more you might be interested in:
Dilman dilla.
Omar Jatta.
Sharkshy@mstdn.
Ian Forrester@cubicgarden.
Timnit Gebru.
PlainTalkBadManners.
Zhivi.
Seis_matters (prif Christopher Jackson).
Louisathegeo (louisa).How did I not include @IveyJanette
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How did I not include @IveyJanette
️ !@grb090423 following her already. Thanks
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@grb090423 following her already. Thanks
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@clayrivers @CathyBikesBook @AstroHyde @blogdiva @venitamathias @StillIRise1963 @dilmandila @nullagent @cykonot @ErickaSimone @macacator
i'll go ask my wife's permission
@benroyce Thank you both for having a good sense of humor. I was like, “What if that came off really stupid? What a dumb ass. Dude’s always been cool and you (referring to myself) just went AWOL.” Yeah, I think I’ll be editing the post. Thanks and sorry about the lapse in judgment.
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Genuinely trying to find more Black people up here. #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #USA
@CathyBikesBook I'm active here. We can connect.
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One love. Good looking out @eosfpodcast
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@benroyce Thank you both for having a good sense of humor. I was like, “What if that came off really stupid? What a dumb ass. Dude’s always been cool and you (referring to myself) just went AWOL.” Yeah, I think I’ll be editing the post. Thanks and sorry about the lapse in judgment.
i took it as absurd humor, it was funny
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How did I not include @IveyJanette
️ !@grb090423 @CathyBikesBook Thank you.
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