Feral Thoughts on Nostr: 🧵 on how #Mastodon, and the rest of the #Fediverse, invisiblize the #GlobalSouth. ...
🧵 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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