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!

    • lud@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      4 months ago

      Assuming you are from the USA what are your options really?

      • sub_ubi
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        4 months ago

        One option is to follow the lead of pro-Palestinian orgs working to end the genocide. You have more power than any other global citizen believe it or not.

    • sub_ubi
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      4 months ago

      honestly why do they leave reddit