@ariadne@treehouse.systems

> why bother with this network?

Because the pattern of allowing folks to participate without operating their own server is what has made fedi/matrix/etc an actual viable alternative to the twitters/discords/facebooks of the world. At least that's my take. It reduced the friction to the point where folks were actually willing to participate & as a result, real network effects were kick-started.

I wish software could fix systemic racism but I don't think any network software really can, it's up to the people using that network to make the most of it.

If I boost a post from treehouse.systems, can someone from whitefragility.net see my boost? Maybe I could change the software so that the boost button simply copy-pastes the post and posts it under my account with a "this is a boost of someone elses post" header and a link back to the original? That would allow important content, if not accounts themselves, to at least slightly "route around" things like this.

But folks usually see "route around" type of features as ban evasion / abuse vector? IDK.

This situation sucks, but I hope that it's not a representative sample of the whole picture. At least on my small little corner of the fediverse I see tons of people who are committed to platforming marginalized voices and more and more "mainstream" people, like those who recently came from twitter, who are beginning to listen or at least become aware that there's something they are missing. At least for me, that's slightly encouraging and I'm hopeful for the future. But also, I'm not an instance admin / I'm just white reply guy #759845. 🤷