This post about Mastodon's failures from @u2764 reads a little weird to me - there are casual mentions of POC, disabled people, other marginalised groups being driven off or discouraged from contributing to Mastodon about the same way as the queer developers that originally started it, but somehow ONLY the queer devs get mourned here? Like they were the most important minority group?

https://medium.com/@alliethehart/gameingers-are-dead-and-so-is-mastodon-705b535ed616

Were there no QPOC, queer disabled, queer + some other identity developers involved in the start of Mastodon? Were there no other non-queer minorities involved in the development of Mastodon? Is their erasure part of the reason Mastodon comes off as being very VERY white?

The "politics needs to be hidden" comment certainly comes off as being very questionable.

Is this (rather bizarre to me) hostility towards discussing politics on Mastodon to the point that ROT13 became some sort of "solution" the reason I got dogpiled to hell my first weekend here after talking about racial dynamics on Mastodon? What was the full story behind this? What sort of culture thinks talking about politics needs to be behind a content warning? Is me talking about the intersections of my life & society in need of a CW because it's political? what the hell?

POC - especially WOC and I see this happen a lot to Black and Indigenous women in particular - get told off for being "too political" just for talking about _the reality of their lives_. And now you want us to put such talk behind a content warning like it's a trigger? Do you know how often us talking about race gets fought back by White people as "omg you talking about racism is too triggering" as though racism doesn't affect OUR mental health? What's the cultural expectation here, geez!

@creatrixtiara I ask for CWs on politics stuff because as an immigrant and partner of a long term sick person with disabilities in a country that's viciously hostile towards all of those groups - to the point where several UN investigations have found and condemned persistent systemic rights violations - discussion of political news gives me massive anxiety spikes

@creatrixtiara much like with any other content warning, I would like to not just have news about how the government has announced it's going to try and force me to leave my home or deny help to my friends and family shoved in my face, especially since it's a pretty constant occurrence here

@creatrixtiara it's not a hostility at all IMO, the very point of CWing it is so that that discussion can happen when people feel able to engage in it without ending up shaking in their seats, especially in the current geopolitical climate where this shit sends basically everyone into anxiety spirals

@theoutrider Having been on way toooooooooooo many discussions where me just saying "hey, that thing you just said is racist" got met with a ton of "OMG HOW DARE YOU, YOU BRINGING THIS UP IS TRIGGERING, I HAVE MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS!!!" from white people, yeah it comes off as hostile now.

@creatrixtiara ugh, yeah, that's fair and a bit shitty :/

@creatrixtiara let me rephrase it as "it's not hostility from my side at all" then