I feel conflicted about this. I have spent a lot of time and effort in the #fediverse since I left Xitter over a year ago. There are things I *love* about it. I love the open source foundation, the fact that it is distributed, and that it is not dependent on big corps.

But it's hard being Black here, and 99% the people in my most important communities are just not here.

I had a small instance, which I will be turning off in a month. It wasn't worth the cost or effort.