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There's an Observable notebook on this topic too who-to-follow-on-mastodon https://observablehq.com/@mauforonda/who-to-follow-on-mastod...


@pcpolice are you saying that from a black or non-black perspective. What would you like to see changed?


The examples just seem preposterous. Like a sibling post says, "I have a black friend who wants to listen to music. What music do I play to please him?" -- seriously? Would you say that about your friends? What about asking the person in particular, as I'm sure this doesn't generalize to skin color? Or, "Who are your top 5 rappers?" That's making quite an assumption. Or, "I'm having black friends over for dinner, what should I cook?" Like, whatever you normally cook, unless they are e.g. vegetarians or have allergies?

Yeah, in summary, I think the thing that bothers me most is what seems to be gross generalization all over...

Having said all of that, I am not black.


@pcpolice I certainly understand your point but these are actually questions that people are asking. I mean we don't know who they are, what color, age, etc. But that's what people are asking. I mean look at the twitter feed - https://twitter.com/aablackperson All questions from people


Fair enough, I guess the main point is that whoever is being asked (you, I presume) is not offended :) At least, I hope you're not (maybe I can get a non-anonymous question in this way :p)?


@pcpolice I've been in the internet/tech space for a long time. Developed a think skin and unfortunately expected some of the not so good sms. I'm good. It's a team of 9 answering questions and yes we're all black :)


SMS for now. We'll look at adding a world sms version/way


@vezycash thanks. We're back up and running since Friday and getting hundreds of SMS.

Good idea.


Hi we do plan on generating revenue but that's a long tall play. Traction, growth then revenue.


Good Luck!


Yes, we're going to study the data for a research report on culture and race.


Fantastic!

Are you analyzing the data in an exploratory manner or do you have some hypotheses that you are testing?

If you would rather discuss this privately in order to avoid tainting the data, please let me know. I will contact you.

I think this project has a lot of potential. Thank you for doing it!


thanks can be reached at ask@askablackperson.com


so True!


Thanks, fixed!


Hi, that's a great idea. We'll add it to the features list.


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