Since Sunbeam is sadly kind of falling apart, may I suggest to any instance admins that don't already have us silenced that you take the
emoji? As its creator (well, the one who came up with the idea, @scintillatinator did the actual drawing), I disavow it from the white nonsense Sunbeam turned into and hold that it still represents the hopeful and just ideals of #solarpunk
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@amy @kaikatsu Me too, but the coop organization has gotten increasingly difficult to navigate, requiring a lot of emotional labor to participate in, while many of its members are casually silencing PoC and disabled/neurodivergent voices more and more. This really came to a head recently, and a lot of people are giving up on trying to fix it
It's sad, but we just didn't have the right means to prevent casual racism and microagressions, leading to a lot of people feeling unheard. Hopefully other projects learn from this and make participation in their systems accessible while building in opposition to these kinds of social pressures
@socalledunitedstates @scintillatinator
We've also got it here 