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wasn't this called Black people Twitter? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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Since when has it changed? Or was it called White people Twitter

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

When I first took over, since it's so small here on Lemmy, most people felt the community name seemed racist and uncomfortable because there wasn't enough content. Tbh, it felt racist and uncomfortable on reddit too.

This is one of Sergio's comments (on a great synopsis btw):

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

It was my understanding that White People Twitter was originally supposed to make fun of white people on twitter who were shitty towards black people on twitter. Somewhere along the way, this concept was lost on half the people.

Edit: It is my understanding that it was always called WhitePeopleTwitter.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

This community exists because a subreddit of the same name exists and god forbid we have any originality around here.

There is no reason for either community when c/microblogmemes exists. We don't have to segregate just because reddit did it.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 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 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 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.

[–] stom@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Which website?

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 1 week 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

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was. To the best of my understanding, it was decided that people are people, and say stuff, so skin color was irrelevant.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

But people of certain skin colors often live in certain cultural spheres, which have particular norms, which are often interesting and funny to observe. Hence why ScottishPeopleTwitter was always equally valid.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not a mod, hence "to the best of my understanding." I doubt they want to relitigate but feel free to do you.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

I perceived em that way, too.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

White people twitter. As can be seen by the slug.

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago

I dunno