cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5257349
Fore some times, mastodon has been unsafe for black and other minorities users, the peoples impacted by this have been complaining about it openly, emphasizing the lack of good moderation tools to make instances safer. The 
s on the dev team and userbase however have essentially plugged their ears and refused to listen, and instead engaged in bad faith, tone policing, minimizing racism, dismissing the testimony of black users, and telling them to “curate their experience better” with filters and blocks (even though a big part of the complaint is that this doesn’t work).
Seeing this, some black peoples who have been complaining about racism on mastodon and the lack of security features to deal with it have taken things in their own hands and made a fork of Mastodon named Awujo.
You’re correct in some sense that in the digital realm there is no scarcity for most things (despite the attempts of the cryptocurrency people to create scarcity artificially). The only scarce resource left is reputation. And people use names to attach their reputation assessments to. So a given fork (name) of a project becomes imbued with more scarce reputation than the others, and control over this scarce resource becomes a source of power in an otherwise utopian world.