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Joni Fieggen

@boud @darius @jcolomb I would also argue that a ‘medium and large’ runs a significant risk of skewing heavily white, and mostly male.

Plus the fact that it’s folks from the US, with US money, on a network that for once isn’t as dominated by American interests and governance as almost everything that came before.

6 Dec 2023 at 16:13 | Wall-to-wall | Open on ngmx.com
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Darius Kazemi

@mejofi @boud @jcolomb It just occurred to me that we might not be talking on similar terms here: for me the break point for "medium" is about 150 people, where it is unlikely for everyone to know everyone else. Because to me that is a place where governance mechanisms become necessary rather than just a good idea. I talk about this in runyourown.social

Re: the American thing, it's a valid criticism and I am trying to be mindful of my biases. We want an international sample for sure.

6 Dec 2023 at 17:06 | Open on friend.camp
Joni Fieggen

@darius @boud @jcolomb I would still be wary of excluding BIPOC folks that way, though, so I’d argue that you should probably be correcting for that in a parallel track that doesn’t select based on instance size. As in, also talk to folks on Black-run instances, for example, even if they are small.

6 Dec 2023 at 17:35 | Open on ngmx.com
Darius Kazemi
Joni Fieggen

@darius @boud @jcolomb Might not be a bad idea to be explicit about this in both of your posts on this topic 🙂

6 Dec 2023 at 17:36 | Open on ngmx.com
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