And, at the risk of crossing subLemmy boundaries, here’s Mekka Okereke (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io) on that achievement, and Mastadon’s loss:
"And when she tried to join the Fediverse, she was greeted with a barrage of hate, sexism, racism, and anti-semitism that should have never been allowed to happen.
"So now no one on Fediverse gets to interact with her directly about her work on here. Our loss. 😢
“Which is why we’ll make it so that this type of terrible welcome is unlikely to happen again. Allowing it to happen to her was a choice. We will make better ones.”
#BlackMastodon
Racism truly is despicable. It’s part of the reason why we must all take part in working to excise bigotry from the community so that stuff like this is not allowed to happen again.