@ChrisMayLA6 it is not just the federation which enabled this, to be clear.

There was a lack of interest in the development of suitable moderation tools at the time, a lack of black voices as part of the development and leadership of Mastodon.

A culture of telling people "they were doing it wrong" even though they were the victims of racism. There's a lot.. federation was a part of it, but a solvable part of it. In other words, to be clear, it was not a technology problem at it's heart

@ChrisMayLA6 well yes. Part of the problem is, it is very easy to target in a sneaky way, on this platform.

There is a lack of black voices on this platform, there is a lot of history here about it if you go looking.

@ChrisMayLA6 Mastodon had and has a big racism and abuse problem. When black twitter attempted to move over here when Elon bought twitter initially, there was a ton of abuse sent to black people who came over.

My understanding is there is still a big issue, and abuse problems are still not resolved. (Not only the culture of abuse but also the moderator and abuse blocking tools).

I imagine you can draw the connecting line from there to here