Summer 2024 Federation Check-in

CARCOSA [they/them]@hexbear.net · 5 months ago

Summer 2024 Federation Check-in

AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.net · 5 months ago

Being able to block blahaj users from some comms will do very little when the actual issue is chasers. When we refed, we will inevitably run into them on the open comms, which means that in the long run we will get exposed to chaser behavior. Yes, they’ll get blocked after being gross and horny creeps, but i’d rather prevent the risk of that kind of interactions in the first place.

There’s also the question what we gain from refedding with an aggressively anticommunist and pro-imperialist instance just because they have some trans people on there. How many are we even talking? Do we have numbers on that, are they doing polls like we do? Back during the drama that led to defederation, the threads discussing open transphobia on the instance where full of painfully clueless cissies, with barely any trans users speaking out even though the issue directly affected them. That may not be a representative picture, but still, it was a very different picture from what you saw on here even back before the pronoun tag purges. I understand that you want to reach out to the kind of trans person who is so desperate for validation that they’ll put up with Vaush fans fetishizing them, i get there’s a lot of trans people who could do well with a better community that allows them to grow and thrive instead of assimilating, but i wonder if there’s that many trans folks on there in the first place.

kristina [she/her]@hexbear.net · 5 months ago

There’s at least 20 or so I think

kristina [she/her]@hexbear.net · edit-2 5 months ago

This is how much they mustered for a survey on /c/trans on blahaj. Afaik it wasn’t pinned anywhere else but /c/trans

so more like 40, hard to tell how that extrapolates to the rest of the site without a pin

AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.net · 5 months ago