My favorite hot sauce is Heinz. #WhiteMastodon

@Deglassco good thread, I always like history. But let's remember that that is what it is: history.

I do not understand what #tags like #BlackMastodon do to bring people closer together. Especially if the terms white/black cannot be used in the same way.

#whitemastodon surely raises some eyebrows? How about #whitepower?

You cannot undo harm done to innocent people by stigmatizing other innocent people or even an entire race.

#peace #brotherhood

Dear #WhiteMastodon: you’re mostly incapable of understanding why many of us do not want to federate with #Meta. Stop trying to explain to us that we will somehow hurt ourselves by not associating with people using a service run by a soulless man who couldn’t care less about net safety. If they really want to join the fediverse, they can do so the same way we did. Meta is like the cruise ship of social media. It’s gross, and the folks on it really don’t care about the scenery.

@greatgrandma
"You claim that this site is by default "white"."

Yes. Do you disagree? I've seen many Black and brown folks talking about how hard it is for them to connect with others of their culture here.

"You claim that "white" is by default "Nazi"."

False. I said that if the hashtag #WhiteMastodon existed and was a thing, it would probably be dominated by Nazis.

"You claim that by disagreeing with you, I am being "defensive"."

You are being defensive.

"Take a long look at yourself and think about who is making negative assumptions about an entire race."

If you weren't being defensive, you'd have realized by now that you invented my views about white people in general because you were upset that I rejected the false equivalence between "Black Mastodon" and "white Mastodon."

@greatgrandma @BendingUnit @HistoPol No, I'm saying that the default culture on Mastodon is white, and if the hashtag #WhiteMastodon was a thing, it would probably be dominated by Nazis.

Try to be a little less defensive please.

@BendingUnit @SallyStrange @HistoPol Certainly no more "off-putting" than something like "#whitemastodon".

So there are what, over 11,000 Mastodon instances & less than 20 BIPOC-owned instances?

Correct me if these numbers are wrong.

I guess there is no need for a #WhiteMastodon hashtag, the whole #Fediverse is almost all white dominated.

#Native #Indigenous #NDN #Freedmen #BIPOC #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon #FreedmenMastodon

66 years of accumulating wisdom & I am still not finished.

I'm #Native & #Jewish. I'm outside the dominant white Christian European-American colonizer culture to a large degree. My 2nd class status is made apparent to me every day.

Still, by the time I was 30 years old, I was nearly fully assimilated. I was mostly erased with only token acknowledgement of my cultures.

If I can start the journey, you can too.

#NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon #BlackMastodon #BIPOCMastodon #WhiteMastodon

The white Christian European-American colonizer culture is so strong and deeply embedded, even atheists and socialists are filled up with it over their heads.

You have to say yeah I'm racist, I'm an enslaver, I'm a colonizer, I benefit from the systems and I like it, before you can even begin to strip yourself and your life of these messed up ideologies.

#NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon #BlackMastodon #BIPOCMastodon #WhiteMastodon

#BlackTwitter is starting to arrive on this platform 💓

#WhiteMastodon tangled in their verbose nonsense — will squeak and wail how their pretty old ways are no more.

And it will be a glory to behold.

You wouldn't believe how incredibly free the silence is.

Give it a go, #whiteMastodon.

@futurebird

Now #whiteMastodon coming with honey smiles making Black folks lay down defences, because everyone's nice?

Such entitled bliss.

Hopefully I do well here. Never had a major presence on other social media. I shall bring try to bring cool things to it!
#mastodon #WhiteMastodon #twittermigration

@karenpinholt personally I believe it's more related to the ppl you follow than the #mastodonculture as it is very diverse.
My feed shows PoC so it's not a #WhiteMastodon or #BlackMastodon it's a very colorful one plus all the shades of gray in between. Wait for the dust to settle, give it time, I'm sure they will come around.