Sergio comments on wasn't this called Black people Twitter?

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

iirc, "Black Twitter" was a phenomenon pointed out around 2008-2009 based on research that showed that African Americans used Twitter at disproportionately high rates. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Twitter and https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/black-twitter
since r$ddit is all about taking content from other platforms, someone made a "Black people twitter" sub
since Black people couldn't have something without White people copying or co-opting it, someone formed a "white people twitter" sub on r$ddit
when a bunch of us came here from r$ddit, various "-people twitter" communities were created
it looks like we're currently on !whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works (9.22K monthly active users) whose display name is just "people twitter". There's also whitepeopletwitter on lemmy.world which is pretty dead, and blackpeopletwitter on lemmy.world which is dead and locked. looks like !microblogmemes@lemmy.world (10.4K monthly active users) is the most active relevant community; its advantage is that its more general, its disadvantage is that its on lemmy.world therefore contributes to centralization.

[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Why do you censor that website? If you say the name in full (enough times), we will show up in search results for them.

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[–] stom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Which website?

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[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

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[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 11 months ago

Black Twitter was also the notion that it was used differently by the black community than the white community.

The two separate communities were to highlight that, initially white twitter was a Karen call out community

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