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I've created a small, incomplete, list of instances with moderators of color.

The list and suggestions became to much to keep up on my own, so here is a Google document, docs.google.com/document/d/12p…

Here's how to move accounts and take your followers with you docs.joinmastodon.org/user/mov…

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFedi #FediTips #TwitterMigration #MastoAdmin


New Copy of Fediverse instances with moderators of color

This initially started out as a post but I am offline more than online, so cannot keep up this list. This is why anybody can edit the document.
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Ceil Kessler (she/her)

Just wanted to flag this post for @BlackAzizAnansi, who's been scouting out this place for his followers in the Black community.

Others servers in the @'s as well.

Notable: if people don't want to move, know that they can check out these servers and they might just find good follows there, too. Just search the server name and check out the profiles that pop up.

@Black Aziz Anansi
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Anna Panek

although once should also note that the instance block list and the speed with which admins are able to react to racist trolling is worth a look too.

Look at the instances that had to be blocked for racism by chaossocial:
github.com/chaossocial/about/b…

I would definitely take a look at this too when deciding if I call a server/instance as a good home for a POC.

Like imagine Kanye making own server suddenly... is this a POC instance then? POC with a confederate hat...?


about/blocked_instances.md at master · chaossocial/about

Contribute to chaossocial/about development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Practitioner of Female Homosex

@shardsofblue @dosboi hello! I’m one of the mod/admins of weirder.earth and yeah this was an issue we ran into. We noticed that our mod staff was totally white and we felt like we were not doing a good job of handling issues around racism and anti-blackness in particular so we made a conscious effort to recruit POC and black moderators (including creating a Patreon to compensate said moderators). Deliberately increasing the diversity of our team was one of the best decisions we ever made and I would highly recommend it for any other instance.
@Zan @Tom
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Daphne

Here are the about or about/more pages of those above mentioned hosts which share their Moderated Servers list:

weirder.earth/about/more
rage.love/about/more
mastodon.art/about
writeout.ink/about/more
mastodon.ie/about
kolektiva.social/about/more

These hosts aren't currently sharing their Moderated Servers lists publicly:
scholar.social/about
blacktwitter.io/about/more
queer.garden/about
neovibe.app/about


Black Twitter

Remember when you first heard about Black twitter and thought it was actually a separate website? Was that just me?
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Nonie

Here's how to bulk import ALL of the people you follow on Twitter:

debirdify.pruvisto.org/

Debirdify -- provides a downloadable list of people that you follow on Twitter who indicated they have an account on Mastodon in a format that you can upload to Mastodon to repopulate your follow list

#twitter #TwitterMigration

Debirdify

This is a web app that helps you find out which of the people you follow on Twitter are on Mastodon/in the Fediverse already and follow all of them easily.
debirdify.pruvisto.org
#twitter #twittermigration
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Cleeyv

the moderation team of the kolektiva.social instance is listed at the bottom of their about page:
kolektiva.social/about/more
I know some of them are not white, and this part of their moderation document seems relevant as well: "We are aware of the broad conversations taking place around anti-Blackness and other forms of racism on the fediverse, and we take this seriously."

kolektiva.social

A collective effort to offer federated social media to anarchist collectives and individuals in the fediverse. Registrations are open. Kolektiva.social is made by anarchists and anti-colonialists, for the social movements and for liberation!
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Admin 🤓 Todon.nl (mod)

@Blogfeedser @joenepraat @kiara At this moment we have not moderators of color (except a Latin person from Argentine, but I don't think that counts). Still, when we look for moderators we specifically ask for PoC, LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized persons (last time only LGBTQIA+ people responded). We will start searching for new moderators soon, so we will mention this preference again.
@joene 🏴🍉 @Blogfeedser @kiara ❄️
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Blogfeedser

@admin @joenepraat @kiara It would be nice if an updated, more completed, more wiki perhaps, version of @blindscribe’s list was hosted somewhere, containing all kinds of marginalized groups, to make it easier for newcomers to choose the right server for them.
@Robert Kingett updates @joene 🏴🍉 @Admin 🤓 Todon.nl (mod) @kiara ❄️
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Max Guthier

Make #BlackFedi a bigger thing and I'll celebrate. Admins can try to be allies all they want but it will not be the same as a space organized by the community itself. The #Fediverse is not immune to minority abuse (far from it), it only gives us instance admins as another line of defense against trolls and we definitely should be on instances we trust in that regard.
#fediverse #BlackFedi
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Olav

moving doesn't necessarily help. How do we get the larger instances ~ mastodon.social being one of the largest instances across the fediverse ~ to fix their moderation shortfalls? Dozens of people migrating won't matter & defederating 300K+ people is suicide.
This is a prompt to a discussion we need to have, at a minimum leading to a federated code of ethics to stay in the system.
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Olav

more back, brown, and queer people definitely need to moderate there, and doubly more transparency.

But consider most new people are going to land on mastodon.social. There simple aren't tools to find the right instance ~ I did until I found one that suits me. All of those people that might move will go to instances that still federate.

We need to fix the problems, not bury the problems

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Piper Carter

how do you find the way to get onto the instance? If you put it into the app it doesn’t take you ti where your can get on. & weirder.earth site says you have to be invited you can’t join. I contacted the Ai bot but no response. I’ve tried to find how to research the other instances but they don’t have sites. It’s very mysterious fir a new user to figure this out. It’s not simple at all.
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