So I LOVE the discord community of Off-Nominal and while we’re not super diverse I always try to approach things with diversity in mind. I’ll note that as a community we’re working really hard to improve our diversity and we will do better (see more of what we’re doing to improve and help).
So one of the most common things that we all do on Discord is “react” to posts with emoji, everyone is familiar with this and Slack popularized it years ago. This is what it can look like with a mix of faces, custom and animated emoji.
While it might sound silly the biggest thing I do is only use the default color emoji when I react to a post. 🤘👍 I know that I would be hesitant to react using a darker skin tone “thumbs up” emoji someone had already used so I don’t want to make anyone feel that way. The default color is most neutral and is most likely to be used by everyone. I will use my own skin tone emoji when typing a post 🤘🏻👍🏻 but that’s my words and actions so I feel its okay there but in a reaction I want everyone to be able to quickly second a reaction emoji.
Another thing that I do is to always use neutral pronouns I’ll say “I think they meant” instead of “I think she/he meant” that way I’m not using a gendered pronoun where someone wouldn’t like me to.
These are tiny little things but I believe that it’s big and small acts that improve our inclusivity. If there are other things I can do please let me know through my contact page.