So like what’s up with the display name for !whitepeopletwitter@lemmy.world lol? I’m hoping it’s some kind of in joke I am missing or a typo but this could very easily be read as casual racism.
Holdover from the reddit community name innit? Which was made to post non-Black humorous tweets as those weren’t appropriate for black people Twitter, another reddit community. IIRC
nope i double checked the reddit community before posting
note that the problem is that “white” is excluded from the display name, which could imply things about what mods believe about non-white folk.
Ohhh didn’t even notice that!
There had been some discussion on that community to rename it, removing any mention of race to show its an inclusive community for funny tweets, but I don’t think they collectively decided on a new name. Perhaps this is part of that effort?
hmm maybe! they should try harder in my non-insider opinion 😭
The community is a copy of the subreddit r/whitepeopletwitter, which is a spin-off of r/blackpeopletwitter. It’s not meant for exclusively white-person tweets - rather, it’s just meant to be a funny name to those who are aware of r/blackpeopletwitter. The omission of “white” in the display name is probably to reflect that they accept tweets from people of any ethnicity.
hmmm ok i see that reasoning i guess. threw me for helluva loop tho.
imo if ur gonna change the display name then just change the comm name too. cuz this looks really iffy haha.
ahh, thanks. i’ll delete this post as i clearly didn’t do my research.
