Since when has it changed? Or was it called White people Twitter

  • Sergio@piefed.social
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    2 days ago
    • 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 [email protected] (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 [email protected] (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.