@benpate @jcriecke @mousey Outside of being white, there is no silver bullet in the fedi.

I built #thebadspace to improve making moderation between communities easier and that has had some success, but there is still resistance when Black folks specifically use them to protect our spaces.

If anything, I think the culture here needs to be more vigilant of the anti-Blackness in the fedi that is a lot more persistent but I have no idea how get white folks to care about anything outside of themselves.

That’s a job for white people.

The rest of are just trying to navigate a hostile space.

@mousey And now we're getting to the meat of it.

'My people' are not here. That's the issue. That's why I built #thebadspace in an effort to make this place more attractive to a diverse population.

It's funny how people see who how people follow me, but don't see the small number of people that I actually follow.

It's not just certain people here and there. It's the *culture* here.

This place just doesn't like diversity, so the 'just block everyone' comment is irrelevant.

There is absolutely a pattern to how hate originates and propagates in the fedi. I’ve tracked it for years because the main players constantly monitor my account.

The hate networks in the fedi aren’t actually that big but they’ve become adept in masking their intentions specifically to white people that allows them to continue to harass and terrorize vulnerable groups. Tech LGBT is a good example of this.

The fedi desperately needs tooling that identifies these that can inform people of how harassment and abuse moves in this environment. #thebadspace itself trying to do this as a third party resource.

Handing the obvious cases of hate is simply not enough because that’s easy to deal with.

The challenge has always been marshaling the will to deal with bigots that exploit progressive language and iconography to continue their abuse.

There is absolutely a pattern to how hate originates and propagates in the fedi. I’ve tracked it for years because the main players constantly monitor my account.

The hate networks in the fedi aren’t actually that big but they’ve become adept in masking their intentions specifically to white people that allows them to continue to harass and terrorize vulnerable groups. Tech LGBT is a good example of this.

The fedi desperately needs tooling that identifies these that can inform people of how harassment and abuse moves in this environment. #thebadspace itself trying to do this as a third party resource.

Handing the obvious cases of hate is simply not enough because that’s easy to deal with.

The challenge has always been marshaling the will to deal with bigots that exploit progressive language and iconography to continue their abuse.

The two things that will always make me laugh about people that tie themselves in knots about #thebadspace is that 1. it's actually a companion project to #fipamo because I want everyone to have a quality moderation tool that they can control themselves and 2. it's completely optional.

If one doesn't like it, they can literally do use it to do their own thing or just ignore it.

This is why I believe most people that proclaim to hate the project are doing so for reasons that have nothing to do with the actual project and more to do with how they feel about *who* is building it.

Ha, and we all know how the fedi feels about Black folks with opinions here.