One of my biggest concerns about switching over to Mastodon when I did, was losing the online Black community I developed on birb site, many of whom were very helpful to my continuing to thrive as I negotiated white supremacist spaces in my professional and personal life. I am very happy to find another such community here, and want to give a shout outs to SOME (wish I could tag everybody - the search function is pretty terrible here for some reason) of the people that keep me coming back to the Fediverse. Love you guys!
(Side note: the autofill "@" function for Mastodon really sucks - fully 85% of the time it autofills Neil Gaiman - so it took me a REALLY long time to populate this list. And I can't find the homie Jaden from Chicago)
@KFuentesGeorge On the bright side, you can rest assured that you won’t ever lose the community you’re building here because of the whims of some bigoted, white nationalist, fascist billionaire.
Yup. It's very strange. Almost every time I start typing in someone's handle, no matter who, the autofill is "DO YOU MEAN NEIL GAIMAN?" And, don't get me wrong, I love Neil Gaiman, but the answer is almost always "no."
In fact, here's a screenshot of what happened when I typed in Jaden's handle JUST NOW:
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