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First off, I wanted to thank you sincerely for your effort with this blog. You have made me pause and examine myself and my writing more than ever before, and I’m happy to report I’m getting a lot better at detecting racism in everyday life and the media I consume. Thank you for helping me become a better person!

Second is my main question. I’ve really begun to comprehend just how overwhelmingly white tumblr is, and I think it would be good for me to find another site to be on that’s more diverse than this one is. I’ve tried doing some research to find some, but all I can find is statistics on how popular certain websites are, and that’s not necessarily what I’m looking for- “popular” doesn’t always equal diverse; for example, tumblr is on Wikipedia’s list of the most popular social media sites, but it’s not really that diverse in its userbase, it’s almost all white people, which is why I want another social site in the first place.

Do you have any recommendations for more diverse social sites I could check out? Ideally, I’d like to avoid Twitter (I am NOT calling it X, fuck Elon Musk), because the media literacy crisis is strong in that site and I do not want to be around any of that, but I am open to trying basically anything else.

Again, thank you so much, you’re making a difference and I really appreciate what you’re doing + the patience you must have to deal with all these white people trying to learn more!

Tbh, no. Twitter really is, in a weird way, the largest diverse option. Speaks to the state of things.

If there were, I don't know if I would direct white people to it, because that would defeat the purpose 😅 Unfortunately there's this pattern where whenever people of color try to create a space for themselves, and they get discovered, they get hit with an onslaught of "you're being RACIST by not including me!!" By white folks, and those spaces end up destroyed or becoming a shell of themselves. So if there is a space like that, I wanna leave it alone.

quick voice claim video thingy i made yesterday for the objoys #yay