Posting less is how you kill the whole idea of the fediverse

Since this is just a draft, you should change #2 to just "think before you post".

It can make sense in certain circumstances, like in BLM rallies telling white people that it wasn't our stage to speak makes sense, but telling people of a certain skin colour to "post less" in general is racist as fuck.

I honestly don't get it, to me I just see user IDs I haven't the slightest clue what race someone is or isn't on here. I vote solely based on whether they make a good point or a bad point.

Are black people all going to have labels so we know who to support and listen to? I think this is pretty weird tbh.

1, 3, and 4 are all solid suggestions. But 'post less'? The Fediverse is sparse enough as it is.

Guys! I created a system of guidelines where black people and white people follow two different sets of rules! I'm helping!

Edit: Remember folx before you post: when was the last time you 🫵 listened to To Pimp a Butterfly?

Eugh Americans, think the whole world should cater to them.

Stop asking Black people for evidence of the anti-Blackness. Believe them: it's real. If you want to see specific examples, do the work yourself to find them rather than asking Black people to do it for you.

IMO examples are exactly what should be provided on this page. The page would be much better if it were just 3-4 headings that looked like

Heading

Example quote 1

Improvement suggestion

Example quote 2

Improvement suggestion

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Description and context

Also, why limit it to "blackness". What in the world is "blackness"? Sounds like black royalty "Your Blackness, how may I be of help today?".

Anyway, I'm not sure what prompted this, which is exactly why I ask for examples. I quit reddit (never was on twitter) during the exodus and honestly, the biggest change I'd like is for USAmericans to get their own instance where they can talk about their problems. Black US Americans deal with very different things than Africans and Europeans with African descent.

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LMAO this is a joke right?

"Post less" isn't going to help a platform that's still in early days that needs more active posters.

Best I can think of with a 30 second investment of time and thought is:

1. when you post about your perspective/experience, post knowing it is only your perspective. You speak for no one else.
2. when other people post with perspectives that differ from yours, default to believing them

(I also feel like these two cover not just blackness, but women and LGBT+ and even white men who don't have the same perspectives as the majority on this white-and-western platform)

Edit: In response to the four guidelines:

Listen more to more Black people

Sounds good but I don't see how this works in practice here. Anyone claiming to be black on an anonymous platform is 50/50 or more likely to be not black. Reddit had an entire "as a black man" sub making fun of people posing as black and the same problem will exist here.

Post less – and think before you post

See above, not what fediverse needs.

Call in, call out, and/or report anti-Blackness when you see it

For sure.

Support Black people and Black-led instances and projects

I have literally never seen an instance identified as black-led, so not sure who to be supporting. It also seems like it would have a similar problem to a topic that starts getting a bit niche. Like, a movie community will do fine, get more niche to a horror movie community and momentum dies out quickly. Horror aficionados are best off posting to the movie community and non-horror people can deal with the occasional post that doesn't inspire them.

Post something to the movie community about black actors and directors in the horror film industry, or about black characters, or about a horror story that is built on (or appropriated from) a black story, hell yeah, I'm in. Don't spin it off to a different community or instance because most will never see it.

The Fediverse does have a massive white slant and the default experience isn't very embracing of different cultures.

There's a bunch of people who would like to see things improved and as of yet, there's not much consensus. The only real idea I've seen floated thus far is blocklist subscriptions.

A massive part of the problem as I see it is, and don't get me wrong, this is a symptom, not a root cause, people are inclined to use the wrong tools. Mastodon is a microblog and yet people are determined to use it for groups and nuanced conversation where their instance only supports 400 characters.

Also WriteFreely is the only active blog service in the Fediverse and needs some love.

We need to encourage people to move to tools that better fit their needs and desires and honestly part of the problem with that is that people feel they'll lose their interactions/audience and that is about Mastodon being shit, because while they can focus on making things more seamless with Lemmy and soon to be Discourse, NodeBB, etc. They're seemingly not willing to.

In regards to Lemmy specifically. Lemmy has a problem. You can see that by the fact this has been voted down to oblivion. When people treat ALL like a personal subscription feed and vote down things they're not interested in or dislike, it creates a monoculture. And no, I'm not saying don't downvote things, but there's a difference between voting down something because it's not great in a community and because you're trying to curate ALL. Maybe a solution is to add local/subscribed only voting options for communities. Lemmy needs to learn to embrace things that aren't for you and sometimes, in fact most times, that's as simple as saying, "that's not for me, I'll ignore it."

It makes sense that the bias in English speaking societies would be reflected on English speaking platforms. The posts here reflect the white western perspective. I would love to see more diversity as it does seem culturally “flat” here.

I don't really understand why this is getting so massively downvoted.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me as a white person. Yes, point two could be more nuanced, but otherwise aren't all these downvotes kind of illustrating the point the OP is making here?

Why would I "Post less," and expect that to help black people?! What?!

Makes sense to me, nothing to add! I hope the fediverse gets better for marginalized people...

Unfortunately Lemmy being a reddit-like platform, there's likely gonna be a bunch of reddit-like people in these comments saying reddit-like things that go against one or all of these guidelines.