I'm part of the Caucasian Caucus (reference). I wanted to hear from our fellow Fedi users who were black, and hear how things have been for them here. I was going to make a follow up question, to ask them how we could make the Fediverse a more safe and welcoming place for them. It was all with good intent from me. Just wanting to make the world a better place, in any way I can.

Grab your popcorn!

As a pasty, hand-wringing white boy, I find that "folks" is a softer word with basically the same meaning. The phrase "black people" is really easy to infuse with venom - those Ps are easy to spit, accidentally or worse - and is at least one step too far along the euphemism treadmill for me, whereas "black folks" feels a lot softer and kinder.

And as one other commenter says about themselves, I've found that I use the word "folks" for other maligned groups too. I think I used it in a thread about furries the other day.

How the targets of the word take it, I couldn't tell you, but I'd bet I'd find some who'd be fine with it, and others who'd think I'm an idiot. That's just the way it goes.

Okay I use the word folks for everyone. I'll accidentally sometimes switch back and forth by mistake, but folks, to me, means people.

I thought when addressing a specific subset of a population you could say "folks" ?

you see this with trans and nb people as well, it's always "folks" all of a sudden. sometimes even "folx"

The old internet was better. You were either a user or a luser.

It should. You really don't want a relay race and F1 on the same track. It would be a bloodbath.

This is an “I don’t see color” sentiment.

Your race shapes how you interact and interpret the world, not because of nature but nurture. People of different races will have different experiences with the same source of media or media environment.

One of the best players of DBD I know is a black streamer.

It’s a 1v4 game, so the killer has their chance to dedicate particular attention to any one of the four survivors. He has (entertaining) montages of killers chasing him down the whole game, to the detriment of their overall victory. It clearly becomes very personal.

They can’t even tell he’s black through the game lobby, yet obsessive racism seems to guide their hand in the dumbest goddamn way.

I don't have the data on hand, but casual racism against black people on the internet is probably much more common than against white people. I imagine exposure to racism affects the recipients.

I don't know why race would make a difference in someone's experience on a website given that you can't see the people you're talking with.

Unrelated but given the amount of casual misogyny I see on Lemmy I think "wow, maybe I don't enjoy this place that much." and interact less often because of it, even though I know it's not aimed at me since they can't see me when they hit post!

Oh wait...

I think no matter the space, you can have a varying experience, and there's no better way to know than to ask

isn't that like...just normal?

Racists my dude, racists.

You see in Reddit, for example, /r/jokes posts that are just straight-up "OTHER RACE IS INFERIOR, LOLOLOLOL" and they can stay up for multiple hours before the mods delete and/or they get enough reports for autoremoval. Or people rolling with that casual racism in a comment, maybe even something they don't realise it's racist, and whether they get told to stop or not.

It's really just about how quickly people respond to racist posts with a shutdown.

OP is innocently asking "have you encountered racists in the wild here, y'know, cause they're rife on some other platforms" (heck, twitter is basically just The Racism App)

This may shock you, but there are vile racists all over the globe. Ever tried being a black guy in Japan?

I was with you until I got to the last paragraph. You're not wrong about racism being rampant in the western world, but there's no reason to sling accusations at OP.