This quote by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr perfectly summarizes the response we've seen to more Black and Brown folks in the fedi and correctly identifies the glaring lack of safety features and, more acutely, the conversation around CWs and fediblock.

The fact his words are still salient to this day makes it very clear how some are simply refusing to learn and are carrying the same bigotries and hatreds from decades ago.

“Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn. The reality of substantial investment to assist Negroes into the twentieth century, adjusting to Negro neighbors and genuine school integration, is still a nightmare for all too many white Americans…These are the deepest causes for contemporary abrasions between the races. Loose and easy language about equality, resonant resolutions about brotherhood fall pleasantly on the ear, but for the Negro there is a credibility gap he cannot overlook. He remembers that with each modest advance the white population promptly raises the argument that the Negro has come far enough. Each step forward accents an ever-present tendency to backlash.”

@Are0h I’ve been doing a lot of educating and arm twisting. I’m a teacher to a fault and meet people where they are— To the extent that I enjoy some forms of privilege I want to think I make a better effort than the lack of effort I have at times encountered— and then there is the … anger that gets dredged up by even trying to have these conversations.

I don’t want to see people left behind— the internet just got more class stratified— but it’s decentralized (for some)

That's the thing that always gets me.

Everyone wants an open internet that's accessible but the closest we've come is corporations realizing ease of use is what keeps people coming back while the rest of us quibble about ridiculous personal ideologies to make mediocre software.

I think decentralization is a great step but what we need know are just better tools that make leveraging this space *easier.*

And like you said, some people get upset when we even talk like this because, in my opinion, most devs are enamored with their own ideas rather than building something useable to people that aren't like them.