Ada
Admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone
I can also be found elsewhere on the fediverse at @ada@blahaj.zone.
We have very much not taken hold in society. We are under attack in ways that are often quite literally killing us, and unlike the fediverse at large, the threadiverse is full of trans hostile folk on generalist instances, many with admins that won’t deal with anything but the most egregious transphobia.
I genuinely believe that empowering trans communities and trans folk in the threadiverse is super important in changing that.
Splitting us apart makes that harder, and keeps the threadiverse more hostile overall. Of course, sticking together doesn’t help if the hostility is coming from within the house, but my hope is that we can get that part sorted out. Maybe we can’t, and if that’s the case, we will do what we have to do, but I would like to make the attempt, because I think that in the long term, learning to work with other trans protective instances will empower us all
As people have said, I’m trying to maintain some cohesion in trans protective instances. If we defederate then the majority of trans protective instances will be isolated from each other, and I don’t want that to happen. I am absolutely giving hexbear more slack for that reason.
I don’t mind that they have a community to highlight what they consider to be “bad takes”. Hell, we have communities like that here, like “Are The Straights OK?” and “Bad Women’s Anatomy” etc.
The issue is when it crosses the line and becomes a source of harassment. I am hoping that the latter has been resolved, but we will see
A post here calling to block them ended up on their All feed, and it still didn’t get that bad.
It really did. I was the target of a lot of it, and I had to moderate the rest of it.
It also didn’t end up in their “all” feed as such. It was posted in their “dunk on a lib” community, and that made it to their all page. And then a great many of them jumped on over here and trolled.
Their admins stepped in and clarified things to ensure it won’t happen again, but before things calmed down, it was pretty bad.
I have hope that we can make things work going forward, but the stuff that happened before was absolutely not sustainable.