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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, https://docs.google.com/document/d/12pTmSMpq8lMYyYlHT25DgTmdMmE6ysUyRHGiq-E4XdQ/edit?usp=sharingp

Here's how to move accounts and take your followers with you https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

#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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Burningbird
Burningbird
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I found that scholar. social has a scary number of CW demands. To the point where I would expect it to become problematic.
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Mr. V
Mr. V
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https://blacktwitter.io is one I've run across and seems to be a good instance from the people I've interacted with there.

Black Twitter

Remember when you first heard about Black twitter and thought it was actually a separate website? Was that just me?
Mastodon hosted on blacktwitter.io
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Ceil Kessler (she/her)
Ceil Kessler (she/her)
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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 :vm:
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Matt, from the internet
Matt, from the internet
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just replying to say that i am LOVING watching this community get built (or at least built up) in real time.
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Anna Panek
Anna Panek
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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:
https://github.com/chaossocial/about/blob/master/blocked_instances.md

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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Tom
Tom
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curious, and apologies for my ignorance if that’s the case. Why does it matter what colour the moderators are?
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Zan
Zan
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@dosboi because experience has shown time and again that even the most well-intentioned white moderators don’t have the depth of experience to fully understand and therefore properly moderate certain kinds of racist behavior, and often themselves unintentionally perpetuate it.

@blindscribe
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Practitioner of Female Homosex
Practitioner of Female Homosex
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@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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Alon
Alon
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scholar.social is the one where a professor got yelled at to put an "I voted" sticker behind a CW.
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Daphne
Daphne
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I think this is a great idea and important endeavor and I want to support it.

I wanted to learn more about how these servers are being moderated and what kind of experiences users could expect if they join, so I looked up their lists of limited and suspended (aka blocked) servers.
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Daphne
Daphne
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Here are the about or about/more pages of those above mentioned hosts which share their Moderated Servers list:

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

These hosts aren't currently sharing their Moderated Servers lists publicly:
https://scholar.social/about
https://blacktwitter.io/about/more
https://queer.garden/about
https://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?
Mastodon hosted on blacktwitter.io
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blueish
blueish
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it's worth noting that weirder.earth will be suspending federation with .social and .online in a few days, so people migrating there from twitter probably won't get the easiest to understand experience
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Nonie
Nonie
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Here's how to bulk import ALL of the people you follow on Twitter:

https://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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Emony 🏳️‍⚧️
Emony 🏳️‍⚧️
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I'm half-Chinese and was raised/identify as Hoklo Chinese, and I'm the admin for yugioh.social, if you'd like to add that.
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Cleeyv
Cleeyv
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the moderation team of the kolektiva.social instance is listed at the bottom of their about page:
https://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!
Mastodon hosted on kolektiva.social
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Blogfeedser 🐝☝️
Blogfeedser 🐝☝️
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@joenepraat @kiara
@joene :ecoan: :ancom: :bij1_flag: :antifa: 🍉 @kiara
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Admin 🤓 Todon.nl (mod)
Admin 🤓 Todon.nl (mod)
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@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 :ecoan: :ancom: :bij1_flag: :antifa: 🍉 @Blogfeedser 🐝☝️ @kiara
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Admin 🤓 Todon.nl (mod)
Admin 🤓 Todon.nl (mod)
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@Blogfeedser No it can't at this moment I think. Still we are very welcoming to PoC and black people as you know and we really hope to have moderators from those communities soon.
@blindscribe @joenepraat @kiara
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Blogfeedser 🐝☝️
Blogfeedser 🐝☝️
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@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 :ecoan: :ancom: :bij1_flag: :antifa: 🍉 @Admin 🤓 Todon.nl (mod) @kiara
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One Meat Ball ✔️
One Meat Ball ✔️
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I've had no issues or problems with mstdn.party. See no particular reason to jump ship at this point. Searching #BlackMastodon works well enough where I am.
#blackmastodon
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Collector Of Dreams
Collector Of Dreams
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i am still learning this rss. IS It posible to change Rooms constantly? Maybe IS bothering to do that for the hosts...
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JennaMagnuski
JennaMagnuski
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are there listings of instances that aren't the ones Mastodon offers you upon joining? I don't know where to look!
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Goofrider
Goofrider
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I think it should be noted that many of these are specialized communities that block other instances quite aggressively. Many of them already block mastodon.social, some even block fosstodon.org.
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Max Guthier
Max Guthier
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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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Collector Of Dreams
Collector Of Dreams
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but why do you move? What is the point in changing?
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David August
David August
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waits second. You are making lists of people based on race, ethnicity or country of origin? And those lists are public?

This is an idea with horrifying unintended (I hope unintended) consequences.

There is a historical example of such list making in the middle of the last century. They made lists for bad purpose.

Do you have anything in place to prevent misuse?
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David August
David August
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I see.
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Dr Shubhangi Karmakar
Dr Shubhangi Karmakar
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@ritawild hi both!!! ❤️❤️
@ritawild
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NetizenS
NetizenS
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I don’t like labels, just people. As an introvert not all the time.
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Olav
Olav
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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
Olav
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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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@pineywoozle
@pineywoozle
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lol Thanks.
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Karen Wyld
Karen Wyld
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already a few dudes not happy with a staunch Aboriginal woman in a position of perceived power. One has already reported me for posting about why I chose to volunteer. Bring it! 💃🏽
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Piper Carter
Piper Carter
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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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Piper Carter
Piper Carter
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ok I’m trying now
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Piper Carter
Piper Carter
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so right now I’ve requested my archive so it’s complaining. That’s taking time. I’ll check back.
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Piper Carter
Piper Carter
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how do you DM folks on here? I don’t have that option.
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