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Radical Feminism is failing because it’s too racist (part 2)

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[–]pennyheax 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I'm glad you came back and explained.

The anti-semite post is fucking YIKES but it looks like it's not actually from Spinster but from the Fediverse feed? I'm new to spinster so I'm not that familiar with it, but if you look at the @gab.com part at the end of that guy's name, I believe that's the server they're on. Try sticking to just the "Spinster" tab instead of the Fediverse one, and you should get exclusively radfem stuff.

Personally, I've only been here for a little while (most of it lurking) but I do occasionally get moments where it's extremely clear that I'm in a majority-white space. A post here and there will give me those sorts of vibes (I think that I felt them previously when BLM came up and also in the response to your post, where a number of responders blithely dismissed your concerns or jumped to thinking you were a troll rather than trying to engage you). What I did notice in some of the more blatantly racially problematic posts I saw in the past was that the mods ended up removing them, so I wonder if maybe you saw shit like that before the mods had a chance to take it down.

[–]Bitchcraft 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

You are 100% right about the "@gab" thing. Spinster is part of the mastodon fediverse, the first time you click on the Fediverse tab, you get a popup explaining it to you. u/meerkat, you should be a bit more careful.

[–]DogeWalker 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In fairness, I can understand how the whole Fediverse thing can be confusing. I'm sometimes caught off-guard by seeing Gab stuff on spinster.xyz, and I'm someone with an above-average understanding of how the fediverse is supposed to work. That's why I think it was a notably odd choice for Spinster to use Gab as a base, rather than Pleroma or Mastodon... and unfortunately, the Spinster founders' choice reflects back on the rest of the community as their site gains notoriety.