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[–]strawberryfields4evr 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Spinster is based on open source code from Mastodon and is part of the Fediverse network. You can see posts from Gab which is a huge hub for white supremacists. If you stick to posts within Spinster, I haven't come across anything like this personally. It would be really helpful if you could identify posts and/or posters so we could get to the bottom of this.

[–]ThisReality 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have and I've blocked a couple people on Spinster for it. I don't bother with the rest of the Fediverse after seeing some of the trash on there.

[–]strawberryfields4evr 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I deleted my account months ago because it felt like there was no way to contain ourselves in one space. And I kind of thought the spaces on Reddit would be a fallback... so much for that! Personally, I haven't seen it but I believe racism exists within the community. This has been a long-standing issue in gender critical spaces (my involvement only goes back to 2012 though so I can't speak to prior to this) because lots of people who are gender critical aren't radfem-aligned and even then... if anyone else remembers the white supremacist/Nazi person from Tumblr, can't think of the name, she decided she wasn't a radfem after all. I think it's important to keep our eyes peeled for it.