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.” Then again, 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!

  • Jimbo@yiffit.netEnglish
    311·
    3 months ago

    I have seen extremely little racism on Lemmy, but my instance is defederated from those places (.ml, Hexbear etc.) they blocked us themselves so we didn’t even have to do anything. So I definitely dont have the whole picture.

    • The Nexus of Privacy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      86·
      3 months ago

      Good point, thanks. It’s great that mods are blocking sources of racism, although also means that people who don’t see can wind up thinking that there isn’t any racism.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        Don’t silence racists: You’re a “nazi platform” promoting racism!

        Silence racists: People think there isn’t any racism because they can’t see it!

        What would you propose?

      • Jimbo@yiffit.netEnglish
        51·
        3 months ago

        It’s great that mods are blocking sources of racism

        Or sources of racism are blocking lefties, hah