Fediverse

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.

I don't typically see it on here and when I do I report that shit

Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube? Every day, Facebook loves to tell me how it doesn't violate their rules though.

Reasons why racism on Lemmy is less of an issue:

• There are only a few Lemmy instances - those that harbor racism are easily defederated from.
• Downvotes make bad content easy to detect, even if not reported.
• Content is posted into communities, which have moderators. Hashtags on Mastodon are un-moderated.
• Unlike mastodon, replies are sent to all instances so visibility is higher. No hiding in obscurity.
• Federated networks tend to have a central hub - Lemmy.world is well moderated, unlike mastodon.social.

If you want to see racism just check the modlog. My favourite feature on Lemmy.

Mostly what I see with any level of frequency is troll posters spamming intentionally inflammatory memes in apparently random communities. I've reported and blocked every post like this that I've come across.

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There's currently only 1 user that I've noticed that keeps bringing race up.

I've not seen any, but I'm also not subscribed to the kind of communities that would be prone to it. I did still manage to get some transphobia directed at me, which is wild because I'm cis.

That's the thing with the fediverse, every instance has a slightly different view of the thing as a whole. That's why picking an instance that aligns with your values matters. You're not going to see much of that on blahaj or beehaw because those users get banned quickly, and problematic instances are defederated as a whole. The matching opposite instances exist too, some are made to be safe heavens for the extreme right, with all the *ism and *phobias going on there.

I recommend people of color to pick instances that supports them, which in turn means they have admins watching their back and shutting down racism quick.

The fediverse will have every problem that plagues other social medias, and it will be worse because unlike Reddit/Twitter, there isn't a centralized authority to say no, that's enough. The only way to deal with it is most big instances saying no and defederating those, but it'll never go away fully, just hidden away.

This is a pretty left-leaning platform, so you don't generally see 'outright' racism.

I haven’t noticed that much racism on lemmy. (I’m not including .ml and grad and hexbear as they are different). Obviously like anywhere, it does exist and your linked post is an example of it.

I have noticed more ableism and sometimes a little (soft) misogyny. But both at a level much lower than reddit.

You are the living embodiment of cringe wokeness and the fact that you're being downvoted even on a left-wing platform where basically everyone is already against racism should make you question some of your life choices.