oh hey, it's me, An Admin. if you've checked my profile before you've probably seen the pan-African flag i use for my banner, which is because i am Black. accordingly the Admin team on site is at least 25% minority; hopefully that inspires confidence in the site from any of our lurking minority posters.

also for what it's worth, apathy and disinterest in websites accommodating the discomfort of minority groups was an appreciable factor in making the website. many of the original core users on here previously used Tildes, where we found that to be a problem. as i put it about two years ago:

2. Even when they do contribute, minority groups often find their viewpoints, opinions, and suggestions crowded out in threads by the majority groups on Tildes. Proposals such as better outreach to minority groups or minority dedicated topics and sections are often criticized as unnecessary, pandering, or ignored by this majority.

3. Topics on minority issues on Tildes are, simply put, often empty or bad discussions. This is in part because of the lack of diversity on Tildes, and in part because the few minority groups that do have communities on Tildes mostly aren't given space to discuss these issues without infringement by majority groups. Indeed, beyond LGBTQ+ topics--which have their own section--minority group issues have struggled to be discussed on Tildes in-depth, despite being good fits for the website and its overall mission. Threads on women's issues often go silent or are dominated by men, socioeconomic issues are downplayed by the better-off, and minority issues are often not posted at all or are stifled by xenophobia or members of majority groups not engaging with minority positions. This can only serve to further alienate members of these minority groups.

these are issues that eventually led to a lot of the cool minority voices in the community dropping off, and killed a lot of discussions from the jump (for example: reparations, affirmative action, and sometimes even basic socioeconomic inequality). we're really hoping to avoid here in general, but especially so in this section—and i hope it shines through that we've thought about this stuff a lot and do actually care about it.

Hi everyone! I was born in Canada, live in the US, and Asian and mixed race. I'm generally a little vague about my real world identity online though beyond that. You can find me here on Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@seedling although it's basically all my TTRPG stuff.

I'm not a Beehaw user but I just wanted to let Africans (including the diaspora) know that baraza.africa is an option.

Hello, I'm Mifuyne, Mif for short. I was born in Hong Kong, live in Ontario, Canada now. I use she/her pronouns, but I'm fine with being referred to as they, too. You can also find me on @[email protected], but that account is more focused on my future gamedev journey 😁 I also have a couple of writefreely accounts, which won't show up on sites like Lemmy or kbin.

Other than programming and gamedev, I also have an interest in tabletop RPGs. I'm mostly focused on solo-gaming at the moment, but I'm still toying with the idea of opening a freeform RP/play-by-post lemmy (or another federated forum) instance.

I look forward to see the kind of discourse that goes on in here 😊