My 🧵, on how #Mastodon, and the rest of the #Fediverse, invisiblize the #GlobalSouth, at
union.place/@feralthoughts/114…
triggered discussion as to what can be done to prevent global south users/topics from getting erased on federated #SocialMedia.
This 🧵 is my effort to place the problem in a larger context, and to suggest steps towards resolving the problem.
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🧵 on how #Mastodon, and the rest of the #Fediverse, invisiblize the #GlobalSouth.I have argued a few times that for all practical purposes, the global south does not exist for Mastodon, and for the rest of the Fediverse. But many people I interact with do not quite understand how this works in practice.
This series of posts is an effort to illustrate that mechanism.
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