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Something about starter packs that I think gets lost when they're discussed on Mastodon:
The power of starter packs is not in some centralised mega list of say "Black people in tech," curated by some central authority. The power is in a million tiny "Black techies I follow" lists curated by everyday users.
Check it out. I'm on some lists.
https://clearsky.app/mekka.mekka-tech.com/lists
And yes, I'm on some lists I don't want to be on, that people use to block. And I mostly don't care. 
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The losers that think being trans means being white and trans, hopped over from Mastodon to BlueSky, and put me on their "transmisogyny list."
But Black trans people, and white trans people that aren't racist and can see Black people, put me in their starter packs.
I don't want to be in community with the fashy white trans people that don't like Black trans people. I prefer the white trans people that like the Black and brown trans people.
I don't like everybody. It's OK if they block me.
Something else interesting:
ClearSky, the tool for inspecting blocks, list membership, etc, is built by a Black developer. 
BlackSky, the tool and moderation community for Black ATProto users and apps, is built by a Black developer.
Black developers are building on Blue Sky.
Shout out to everyone who will read this, and instead of saying "How do we get them to build for Mastodon/Activity Pub?" Will froth at the mouth about fake federation and the inevitable corpo takeover.
Black developers have been trying to build for the fediverse. For years. And they meet extreme resistance.
Do you know who they are? Do you know their names? Do you know which projects they tried to ship / have shipped?
This isn't about BlueSky, or corporate social media, or decentralization, or influencer culture, or big accounts, or wanting to replicate Twitter, or venture capital funding.
@thisismissem@hachyderm.io@mekkaokereke I'd love to get some of those people involved in the ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce, but as I don't have strong relationships with these people I'm not sure how best to invite them, and am also cognisant that standards work is an entire thing, and can be very laborious, so I don't wish to expect that of anyone from a marginalised background.
I'm currently making sure to cite articles by black & brown authors when I know of a relevant article to a specific work item.