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All of the posts on Mastodon about how the Blue Sky team was silly for releasing a social media network in 2023 without blocking and moderation, even in private beta, and that the Blue Sky team should have known what would happen...
...are being written on Mastodon: a social media platform that in 2023, still doesn't take into account that Black users face a disproportionate amount of very specific types of abuse, and is missing key features that would make the Black population safer. 
It really is the social media equivalent of white folks telling Black folks that Boston is less racist than the South, and completely ignoring any Black folk that live in Boston or anywhere else in the US trying to talk about what their real, lived, experiences have been.
Many Mastodon users are just completely convinced of the superiority of their moderation philosophy, and they are as happy to ignore the few Black Fedi users in 2023 as they were in 2017.
@mekkaokereke I'm sure you've mentioned this before, but Mastodon search is terrible, so could you please say again what features Mastodon is missing that would help alleviate abuse Black people face here?
@heathborders @mekkaokereke it’s right in his pinned posts
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109454206758285621
@bwebster @mekkaokereke thanks! That didn't show in my client.
I'm curious about the solutions for these problems that Mastodon could implement and that bluesky is currently implementing.