@GLaDTheresCake It does apply to society in general, at least to majority-white ones (I cannot speak for others), but I find it particularly jarring in the context of fedi because it's, like, the major missing thing?

Fedi as a community is trying to fix a lot of community issues by doing governance differently, structuring them differently, having different norms, and so on, but this is the one obvious point where fedi seems to be failing still just as hard as everywhere else, with no obvious improvements in sight.

(There are more problems with fedi but those are usually either specific to fedi or more prominent here than elsewhere; this stands out by being *nearly indistinguishable* from elsewhere)