fedosyndicate

To anyone that hasn't seen the mythbusting thread it was pretty damn shocking: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yxqq9S14NxbCQBDfO0lq3xYL8IWrGLSeE47u7X1sUVo/pub

Well, Germany is officially a Federal Republic, it does make some sense they would join a federated universe :)

Well, I guess we know he's been doing some weed already. ;)

It is possible I set an unusually high bar for specificity, and when I read it back actually the following sentence "I think there's outreach to be done in that regard as well." does give appropriate grounds for interpretation. I'll strike or retract the paragraph because with what I know now, I don't think what I said was accurate any more.

Personally though, I do think that the clearest communication is done with a lower reliance on context. What may appear obvious to some may simply go over others heads. I don't think that pre-existing knowledge is entirely irrelevant, but I don't think it should be completely relied upon either.

Because people bring their personal experiences, histories, and identities to every discussion.

Exactly this. I think it's great to bring a range of social values from different cultures to a discussion. I think that a wider range of values helps make for fairer outcomes.

One thought that's already occurred is more dedicated efforts to grow communities that are useful to minority individuals or may attract them to use this site.

That sounds like a great idea, although not without its challenges (as an example, finding people both from those groups, and also willing to invest time into the community as leaders/mods). It would be very hard to found a community like that without finding someone who closely knows what that community needs and what would draw the group to a given social media platform; but if the process was done right their participation would certainly be a big draw for the site!

It looks like they pulled from the "White alone or in combination" statistic -- although you're right; "71.5%" is not used, only "71%" or "71.0%" without the extra 0.5 on the end!

[edit: on re-reading, the sentence that followed it that said "I think there's outreach to be done" is clear, even if I think the words could have been ordered better for flow, and connect this more directly and closely to the "unfortunate" comment.]

The charitable interpretation of it is that we need to be intentionally welcome and aware of POC in the community

~~Yeah, I think as written it implies too much to be interpreted unambiguously. I agree, the charitable interpretation is "we need to do more" but that's an inference that is drawn from my pre-existing understanding of beehaw's management and vision, and maybe a sprinkling of trust in their intentions.~~

~~Without explicitly stating "unfortunately we failed to reach minority communities," my feeling is that it leaves a lot of room for accusation of other parties for the "unfortunateness" of the situation or misreading of future intent, and personally I think that just leads to unclear communication.~~

I'll be honest - as pleased as I am that our communities are still federated, I am somewhat surprised because kbin registration is open and is growing fairly steadily. I only hope that useful and constructive participation from our instance outweighs the bad, although I can certainly understand a few awfully rotten apples would probably not have left a good impression!

We're having our own issues trying to shut down the intolerant crowd. That being said, I should report that they're currently being downvoted 3:7 (because that's a feature kbin supports); and I might have to ask around if Ernest (kbin dev) could be clearer about showing the names of federated communities and users because those things are not nearly as clear as when I view the same post from a Lemmy instance.

Yeah, video ads are the popup ads of our days. Just as intrusive. Money corrupts :(

Heartily recommend this Computerphile video with some history and background about Ethernet and a bit about where the name came from!

I'm pretty sure he was on Mastodon way before the migration! Alec was one of the first few federated accounts I looked for once I got the word we were all moving.