To be fair, platforms like this will originate in that shape for the significant future. Reddit did as well. I’m not white, but work as a software engineer.

We might have to accept we’re on the “losing” side, e.g. Lemmy will never have the numbers our subreddits had. We’ll have smaller communities and less content, but hopefully better conversation.

The flux of users is probably more than what the servers can handle. It will take time to smooth it out.