1/For my 70th birthday I would like #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC visibility on #Mastodon.
-
1/
For my 70th birthday I would like #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC visibility on #Mastodon. e.g. an Indigenous/BIPOC topic and a https://TurtleIsland.social instance listing at Join Mastodon.
This is how I torture my family (feel complimented), I always want things money can't buy.
For over 3 years now @Tzipporah and I have been trying to build a vibrant thriving Native/Indigenous community on Mastodon. It's an uphill climb but we will not give up, we will succeed. We are glued to this concept.
3/
Check out the topics on Join Mastodon.Imagine this - I'm talking about #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC People. In #Mastodon world, all Black People, all Indigenous People, all People of Color - THE GLOBAL MAJORITY of human beings on the planet are less important than Sports and one sports instance. Just keep going through the topics, don't make me compare any others...
Shame on you Mastodon.
#Racist #WhiteSupremacy #SocialMedia
https://joinmastodon.org/servers -
2/
If Mastodon is waiting for me to die and shut-up about #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC visibility, it won't work. I will live in my descendants forever, two of them are already here. @Tzipporah is already ready to fully take over.We are seeds, you can't get rid of us. We just get noisier and more plentiful.
#JustSayinBravo 🫂
️ -
1/
For my 70th birthday I would like #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC visibility on #Mastodon. e.g. an Indigenous/BIPOC topic and a https://TurtleIsland.social instance listing at Join Mastodon.This is how I torture my family (feel complimented), I always want things money can't buy.
For over 3 years now @Tzipporah and I have been trying to build a vibrant thriving Native/Indigenous community on Mastodon. It's an uphill climb but we will not give up, we will succeed. We are glued to this concept.
4/
And to be ultra clear, when I say #Mastodon or Mastodon world, I'm talking about the Mastodon organization.The #Fediverse and the people on #Mastodon instances are amazingly great people. The org Mastodon is deep in #SystemicRacism #WhiteSupremacy
The org could easily go oops our bad, sorry and fix it pronto before it goes to the next level. But they won't even answer an email. They are a social media organization and they ignore hundreds and hundreds of boosts.
#Native #Indigenous #BIPOC -
@Su_G in 2 months
-
1/
For my 70th birthday I would like #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC visibility on #Mastodon. e.g. an Indigenous/BIPOC topic and a https://TurtleIsland.social instance listing at Join Mastodon.This is how I torture my family (feel complimented), I always want things money can't buy.
For over 3 years now @Tzipporah and I have been trying to build a vibrant thriving Native/Indigenous community on Mastodon. It's an uphill climb but we will not give up, we will succeed. We are glued to this concept.
@Yehuda @Tzipporah Happy Birthday. I wish you all the visibility and more! You are most welcome here and we are honored to have your instance enriching the fediverse!
-
4/
And to be ultra clear, when I say #Mastodon or Mastodon world, I'm talking about the Mastodon organization.The #Fediverse and the people on #Mastodon instances are amazingly great people. The org Mastodon is deep in #SystemicRacism #WhiteSupremacy
The org could easily go oops our bad, sorry and fix it pronto before it goes to the next level. But they won't even answer an email. They are a social media organization and they ignore hundreds and hundreds of boosts.
#Native #Indigenous #BIPOChmmm you're giving me an idea
maybe we can get some people to work on editing the wikipedia page with some of these critiques? not sure that will change anything at the top but the fact that there is nothing at all on the whole page reflecting the racism problems makes me think there's an opening, and i bet they do care about how they're portrayed there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)
edit, wowow the citation on fediblock... needs work, along the lines of:
https://logicmag.io/policy/blackness-in-the-fediverse-a-conversation-with-marcia-x/ -
3/
Check out the topics on Join Mastodon.Imagine this - I'm talking about #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC People. In #Mastodon world, all Black People, all Indigenous People, all People of Color - THE GLOBAL MAJORITY of human beings on the planet are less important than Sports and one sports instance. Just keep going through the topics, don't make me compare any others...
Shame on you Mastodon.
#Racist #WhiteSupremacy #SocialMedia
https://joinmastodon.org/servers@Yehuda Have you seen this?
-
3/
Check out the topics on Join Mastodon.Imagine this - I'm talking about #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC People. In #Mastodon world, all Black People, all Indigenous People, all People of Color - THE GLOBAL MAJORITY of human beings on the planet are less important than Sports and one sports instance. Just keep going through the topics, don't make me compare any others...
Shame on you Mastodon.
#Racist #WhiteSupremacy #SocialMedia
https://joinmastodon.org/servers@Yehuda honestly i dont know whats more weird here, that there is only 1 sports instance or that they went out of their way to make a category for 1 sports instance while a bunch of other stuff seems missing
(not just bipoc, but like where are the plural servers? where are the anarchist servers? those three make up like half of fedi?)
-
hmmm you're giving me an idea
maybe we can get some people to work on editing the wikipedia page with some of these critiques? not sure that will change anything at the top but the fact that there is nothing at all on the whole page reflecting the racism problems makes me think there's an opening, and i bet they do care about how they're portrayed there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)
edit, wowow the citation on fediblock... needs work, along the lines of:
https://logicmag.io/policy/blackness-in-the-fediverse-a-conversation-with-marcia-x/What stops you from doing this on your own? Or at least go to the talk page to get some idea if others would find it helpful if a "critic" paragraph is added?
-
1/
For my 70th birthday I would like #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC visibility on #Mastodon. e.g. an Indigenous/BIPOC topic and a https://TurtleIsland.social instance listing at Join Mastodon.This is how I torture my family (feel complimented), I always want things money can't buy.
For over 3 years now @Tzipporah and I have been trying to build a vibrant thriving Native/Indigenous community on Mastodon. It's an uphill climb but we will not give up, we will succeed. We are glued to this concept.
@Yehuda @Tzipporah Happy birthday! And congratulations, I see you, you are gaining visibility, what you do is not in vain, it is getting traction.
I had very good reasons to run from twitter when it turned bad, but I do miss the diversity of voices from back when it was good. I just kept running across communities whose stories I was never told.
Tracing back why I am here now: there was this glorious cooperation between LockpickingExtreme and BeadsByBatsheva, the "be gay, do crime" lockpicking earrings. I had my earlobes pierced just to wear them one day. And it was from Batsheva that I found Tzipporah, and from there I found out about Turtle Island.
I'm here to contribute what's in my power to turn the fediverse into this magic place connecting communities again.
-
1/
For my 70th birthday I would like #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC visibility on #Mastodon. e.g. an Indigenous/BIPOC topic and a https://TurtleIsland.social instance listing at Join Mastodon.This is how I torture my family (feel complimented), I always want things money can't buy.
For over 3 years now @Tzipporah and I have been trying to build a vibrant thriving Native/Indigenous community on Mastodon. It's an uphill climb but we will not give up, we will succeed. We are glued to this concept.
@Yehuda @Tzipporah I’m afraid I’ve no pull with the schmuck(s) involved with those decisions, but I hope you’ll enjoy this personalized happy birthday message.
Mazel tov, alter-kacker.
-
1/
For my 70th birthday I would like #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC visibility on #Mastodon. e.g. an Indigenous/BIPOC topic and a https://TurtleIsland.social instance listing at Join Mastodon.This is how I torture my family (feel complimented), I always want things money can't buy.
For over 3 years now @Tzipporah and I have been trying to build a vibrant thriving Native/Indigenous community on Mastodon. It's an uphill climb but we will not give up, we will succeed. We are glued to this concept.
@Yehuda @Tzipporah you're here. We see you.
-
4/
And to be ultra clear, when I say #Mastodon or Mastodon world, I'm talking about the Mastodon organization.The #Fediverse and the people on #Mastodon instances are amazingly great people. The org Mastodon is deep in #SystemicRacism #WhiteSupremacy
The org could easily go oops our bad, sorry and fix it pronto before it goes to the next level. But they won't even answer an email. They are a social media organization and they ignore hundreds and hundreds of boosts.
#Native #Indigenous #BIPOC@Yehuda Sorry to ask, but could you spell out the fix you're asking for?
-
1/
For my 70th birthday I would like #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC visibility on #Mastodon. e.g. an Indigenous/BIPOC topic and a https://TurtleIsland.social instance listing at Join Mastodon.This is how I torture my family (feel complimented), I always want things money can't buy.
For over 3 years now @Tzipporah and I have been trying to build a vibrant thriving Native/Indigenous community on Mastodon. It's an uphill climb but we will not give up, we will succeed. We are glued to this concept.
5/
I'm writing followup posts on our Patreon too. I strongly encourage EVERYONE to grab a free subscription there to keep abreast of new posts on this subject. In the meantime:https://TurtleIsland.social is invisible to Mastodon
It's time to make Mastodon friendly to non-white cultures
Mastodon gGmbH needs to lead this - list TurtleIsland.social and create an Indigenous category.
Mvto! (Thanks!)
#Native #Indigenous #BIPOC #Mastodon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/148563046 -
1/
For my 70th birthday I would like #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC visibility on #Mastodon. e.g. an Indigenous/BIPOC topic and a https://TurtleIsland.social instance listing at Join Mastodon.This is how I torture my family (feel complimented), I always want things money can't buy.
For over 3 years now @Tzipporah and I have been trying to build a vibrant thriving Native/Indigenous community on Mastodon. It's an uphill climb but we will not give up, we will succeed. We are glued to this concept.
6/
Sometimes you do a controlled burnColonialism doesn't just steal land, it steals everything, including equality on social media networks - racism keeps it that way
#Native #Indigenous #BIPOC #Mastodon #Racism
Much more >>---> https://www.patreon.com/posts/149699384 -
1/
For my 70th birthday I would like #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC visibility on #Mastodon. e.g. an Indigenous/BIPOC topic and a https://TurtleIsland.social instance listing at Join Mastodon.This is how I torture my family (feel complimented), I always want things money can't buy.
For over 3 years now @Tzipporah and I have been trying to build a vibrant thriving Native/Indigenous community on Mastodon. It's an uphill climb but we will not give up, we will succeed. We are glued to this concept.
@Yehuda
Wondering if we can get @haubles and/or @andypiper to give a read to this thread
️ and address this -
@Yehuda honestly i dont know whats more weird here, that there is only 1 sports instance or that they went out of their way to make a category for 1 sports instance while a bunch of other stuff seems missing
(not just bipoc, but like where are the plural servers? where are the anarchist servers? those three make up like half of fedi?)
-
5/
I'm writing followup posts on our Patreon too. I strongly encourage EVERYONE to grab a free subscription there to keep abreast of new posts on this subject. In the meantime:https://TurtleIsland.social is invisible to Mastodon
It's time to make Mastodon friendly to non-white cultures
Mastodon gGmbH needs to lead this - list TurtleIsland.social and create an Indigenous category.
Mvto! (Thanks!)
#Native #Indigenous #BIPOC #Mastodon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/148563046Can these posts be found anywhere apart from patreon? Unfortunately patreon uses cloudflare to block Tor users, so when I visit the links to your posts I just see an Access Denied error message from cloudflare saying "The owner of this website (www.patreon.com) has banned the country or region your IP address is in (TOR) from accessing this website"
-
Can these posts be found anywhere apart from patreon? Unfortunately patreon uses cloudflare to block Tor users, so when I visit the links to your posts I just see an Access Denied error message from cloudflare saying "The owner of this website (www.patreon.com) has banned the country or region your IP address is in (TOR) from accessing this website"
@adamsaidsomething No, but let me think on this
-
1/
For my 70th birthday I would like #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC visibility on #Mastodon. e.g. an Indigenous/BIPOC topic and a https://TurtleIsland.social instance listing at Join Mastodon.This is how I torture my family (feel complimented), I always want things money can't buy.
For over 3 years now @Tzipporah and I have been trying to build a vibrant thriving Native/Indigenous community on Mastodon. It's an uphill climb but we will not give up, we will succeed. We are glued to this concept.
Hi - I’m Hannah, I’m Mastodon’s new Community Director, I joined at the end of September.
First, thank you for your work to bring Indigenous/ BIPOC communities to #Mastodon and the #SocialWeb. I want to do everything I can to support you. I promise you that we will add this listing to join mastodon as soon as possible.
We have a significant backlog on the Server Directory, but we have a plan to fix it. Over the weekend we announced a first experiment in evolving onboarding (but it will not be the only one). Simultaneously we are starting to look at how to evolve the Server Directory too, including adding more kinds of server classifications or categories which can be used for other kinds of discovery methods. We also want to move the Server Directory to a PR-based backend so it’s more manageable to keep updated, and so the community can help us do it.
I am sorry we haven’t done this yet. We are working on it, and please do not hesitate to reach out to me to check in on progress. You can email me too: hannah[@]joinmastodon.org.
If you want to hear more, here is the talk where we announced the first experiment and shared more info about Server Directory (we will publish a blog post soon too). The relevant sections start at around 10:50.
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HJYRFF-tending-the-herd/
Happy birthday, friend
more soon
