In 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!) and its cross-posts, quite a few people said things like “maybe racism is a problem on Mastodon, but I don’t see it on Lemmy.” Of course, plenty of comments in the various threads were in fact examples of racism on Lemmy, so one takeaway is that at lot of people don’t see racism even when they’re looking at it. And helpful commenters pointed out some of the other patterns of racism on Lemmy. … but that wasn’t really the thrust of that discussion.

So I wanted to ask more generally, what are some of the examples you’ve seen of racism on Lemmy? Quotes and links are great, but also feel free just to describe examples or call out more general patterns!

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    4 months ago

    It’s the literal definition of censorship.

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      4 months ago

      Actually censorship is a centralized process of editing information channels to ensure certain topics aren’t published through those channels.

      Censorship is a step in a publication pipeline. At least traditionally.

      Simply shutting down sources would be “suppression” and choosing not to look at certain things is “willful ignorance”.

      Sorry if that seems too pedantic, but you invoked the concept of literalness.