cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5257349
Fore some times, mastodon has been unsafe for black and other minorities users, the peoples impacted by this have been complaining about it openly, emphasizing the lack of good moderation tools to make instances safer. The 
s on the dev team and userbase however have essentially plugged their ears and refused to listen, and instead engaged in bad faith, tone policing, minimizing racism, dismissing the testimony of black users, and telling them to "curate their experience better" with filters and blocks (even though a big part of the complaint is that this doesn't work).
Seeing this, some black peoples who have been complaining about racism on mastodon and the lack of security features to deal with it have taken things in their own hands and made a fork of Mastodon named Awujo.
There are already a bunch of mastodon forks/alternative AP implementations anyway. Misskey, gotosocial just off the top of my head.
It's hard to convey how dysfunctional the mastodon FOSS project is beyond just linking you to see the number of un-merged pull requests.
Every open source project is dysfunctional.
not entirely true if you consider all the OG stuff. I think most people would consider the linux kernel at least passable
The Linux kernel project has an incredibly high barrier to entry, Linus has had to take anger management classes, lots of maintainers are burnt out, and they had a lot of drama over a Code of Conduct.
Just because the software quality is good, doesn't mean the culture isn't dysfunctional