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### Have a love-hate relationship with social media? So do we. In Episode 7, we explore the joys and perils of visibility, and talk with Sydette Harry, an expert in online communities.\n\nTrolls, randos, and straight-up neo-Nazis: being a woman online can be tough. This week, we\u2019re exploring how we make choices about what and whether to share online.\n\nOur guest this week is the inimitable writer, editor, and tech/media critic, Sydette Harry, also known as [@blackamazon](https://twitter.com/Blackamazon). She\u2019s an editor at Mozilla and part of the Coral Project, which is working to create healthier communities and comments sections. She\u2019s also smart as hell, exquisitely blunt, and committed to talking about what\u2019s wrong online in the voice she grew up with.\n\n> Yes, in a lot of ways I am more diverse than the average person who shows up to a lot of these things. We\u2019re not going to lie about that. I am, by virtue of being black and female, even though I am a cis, able-bodied person, I am more diverse than the people you usually have in there. That being said, I\u2019m still an Ivy League graduate. I\u2019m still a person of a certain education\u2026 So when you say that I am \u201cdiversity,\u201d let\u2019s all be clear here: you ain\u2019t doin\u2019 that well, fam. You\u2019re not doing that good.\n> \n> \u2014[Sydette Harry](https://twitter.com/Blackamazon)\n\nHere\u2019s what we cover\u2014and of course, we\u2019ve got a full transcript, too.\n\n## Show notes\n\nA year ago, [Lindy West quit Twitter](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/03/ive-left-twitter-unusable-anyone-but-trolls-robots-dictators-lindy-west)\u2014and [she\u2019s not coming back](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/opinion/quitting-twitter-lindy-west.html). We miss her voice, but we\u2019re also a little jealous.\n\nPlus: Jenn moves her sports talk to Facebook, Katel closes the tab and never looks back, and we all wonder whether Klout still exists. (Sara used to be influential in burritos. Just saying.)\n\n### Interview: Sydette Harry\n\nGet comfortable, because you won\u2019t want to miss a second of Sydette\u2019s searing commentary on tech culture, Twitter, journalism, race, gender, and weight. We talk about:\n\n- Sydette\u2019s work with the [Coral Project](https://coralproject.net/).\n- Why she\u2019s calling out media for [telling amazing people that they don\u2019t belong](https://source.opennews.org/articles/not-belong/).\n- How Twitter\u2019s insistence it was the \u201c[free speech wing of the free speech party](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/mar/22/twitter-tony-wang-free-speech)\u201d left it vulnerable to abuse.\n- The [Prep for Prep](https://www.prepforprep.org/page) program, the [Bronx is Burning](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-bronx-really-burned/) era, and the limitations of teaching kids from under-resourced areas how to fit into elite circles.\n- Presentation voice, \u201chome\u201d voice, and the politics of [code-switching](https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/04/08/176064688/how-code-switching-explains-the-world)