This has been an issue in quite a few online lefty spaces I've been in, and for the bigger picture I am in no way able to say why it happens because I myself am usually pretty far from the particular pulse of black culture, online or off. (Not really by choice as much as being too tolerant of being the only black voice in a group...)
The lack of melanin here and on fediverse didnt hit me till i wanted to post about Love And Hip Hop.
It's not explicity for black people and some could even argue the show is more for white voyuers, but not having an equivalent of black twitter does hit sometimes. It's part of the reason why i still hang on to my Twitter, IG, and FB.
I've really enjoyed moving to cohost and fedi. They're much more positive overall, but in addition to not wanting to lose contact with certain friends, there's not really an equivalent or corollary to "Black Twitter". I cant even fully verbalize what that would look like for cohost, but i know it's not here yet.
I'm also at a loss for how to "fix" this. It's not exactly something that can change by coding around it, although @chimerrir makes some good points above me.
If i had to make a suggestion, we may have to make something similar to a black students union. Not even a fully official group or account, but some way to concentrate the black users we do have and make the black content more easily discoverable. Even if it doesnt increase the amount of melanin users, we'll at least have more black posts we can see on the site.
