Black and brown folks have no reason to undertake the Sisyphean task of pushing the #Fediverse up the hill of egalitarianism (though credit to all the people who keep at it).

This isn’t a fight over ownership of material resources, or a struggle for power in the real world. It is just some software. Hardly anyone in the world is even aware of it.

A coloured person may think: let the white clan here wallow in each other’s company, let them have the Fediverse.

And that’s a rational viewpoint.

in reply to Feral Thoughts

The 🧵 at

union.place/@feralthoughts/114…

and

union.place/@feralthoughts/114…

and

union.place/@feralthoughts/114…

form the context for the previous post.


🧵 on how #Mastodon, and the rest of the #Fediverse, invisiblize the #GlobalSouth.

I have argued a few times that for all practical purposes, the global south does not exist for Mastodon, and for the rest of the Fediverse. But many people I interact with do not quite understand how this works in practice.

This series of posts is an effort to illustrate that mechanism.

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