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!
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.
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.
This is a pretty left-leaning platform, so you don’t generally see ‘outright’ racism.
Again? I’m blocking this fool.
