Just as my experience of the material world is impacted by considerations of class, gender, race and more, so is my digital experience. Twitter has never been safe for minoritised people and, as a woman of colour, my experience of the platform has always been vitiated by an overarching sense of violence.
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The current digital white flight – or at least its threats – kicked off by Musk’s tragicomic saga of the acquisition and ongoing torching of Twitter is very familiar, not only in its motivations but its dynamics. Like real-world white flight, it is motivated not by existential or substantial fears, but a perceived threat to comforts of structural privilege. Most importantly, it is premised on a single privileged assumption: that there are, somewhere, safe and comfortable spaces of existence.

penwing (they/them)

2022-11-10 09:05:53

I am still, as I am sure most of you are, still on Twitter alongside mastodon, and there are conversations going on there abou *who* is migrating to Mastodon and who isn’t - particularly in GRa ounces of race. Sunny Singh has written on this at https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/twitter-blue-ticks-elon-musk-white-people-leaving/

Others have talked about moderation and, well, we have a lot of answers, but not necessarily ones which support those who face the harassment…

Leaving Twitter says more about you than Elon Musk

OPINION: The platform was already a haven for abuse. What could be taken away is structural privilege, not safety

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