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Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) MA to Technology · 9 months ago

Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be

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Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be

www.wired.com

Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) MA to Technology · 9 months ago
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The curated feed, now run by a team of six moderators, is the meeting ground for hundreds of thousands of Black users on Bluesky. Is it ready to meet the moment?
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    Yay! Segregation again!!! /s I guess we go backwards because people are incapable of moving forwards.

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      Safe spaces are not segregation in the same sense as US history. These are folks self selecting, not the government selecting for them. Often online spaces especially need spaces like this so folks in marginalized groups can have a safe community. They are also not stuck to the one feed, they can just choose what feed they want when

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        Agreed that it is not the legal definition of segregation. It is segregation by choice in my own opinion. Because we refuse to move forwards as a world.

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          It’s not the same thing. One was meant to keep black people out of society, and the other is meant to provide community for marginalized folks (in this case black folks, but any marginalized group can have a safe space). And yes, we still have racism and bigotry, but comparing something that was meant to further marginalize people to something that is meant to provide community is just silly.

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            After some reading, I realize my mistake. It’s not segregation, it’s self-segregation, as per: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-segregation

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              It is not that though. Safe spaces doesn’t mean they don’t ever have contact from outside groups, it means they have a place they can take a break and know there is a certain cultural understanding. It is a vacation, not a permanent move.

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                Interesting point of view. I’ll think on it.

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      There is a world of difference between being excluded from spaces where you’re marginalized (such as society on the whole) and creating spaces where you aren’t marginalized. Does that make sense?

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