Jürgen Hubert<p>I think the same problem with representation among <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> entries is pervasive among <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> projects as well - including the <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> :</p><p>Contributions are done by those who have sufficient free time to work on such projects, which usually means having a stable, comfortable existence. Thus, the majority of contrirbutors tend to be white men - and they bring their own biases with them.</p><p>This is a problem - while the concept of the Fediverse is great, our user base is not very diverse. <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> in the old days blew the Fediverse out if the water, in this regard at least.</p><p>We need to include a lot more different people for the development of the Fediverse, from all over the world, instread of the crowd if largely white Europeans and North Americans we have now. Yet how can we include them, if the expectation is that the contributors should work for free - something much harder to do if you _don't_ have a stable source of income and a job that gives you sufficient free time?</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/114296167012875443" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sauropods.win/@futurebird/1142</span><span class="invisible">96167012875443</span></a></p>