Mastodon Moderation for Instances of Color

The moderation team on my server responded incredibly fast to both ban the instance and ban the individual users engaging in in targeted harassment. Many Mastodonians seem to be suggesting you need to leave part of parts of yourselves at the door when you get onto a given instance. And so when people tell marginalized subjects to make their own instances, they grossly underestimate the resource intensity of doing so. It is not simply the case that we can make an instance and then suddenly be free of all the things that we're trying to get away from. But it is the case that when we make an instance, we have to police it thoroughly given the broader context of white supremacy in which these platforms grow up.