Tbh, I'm on a proactively moderated server that has preemptively kept a lot of the worst folks from being able to reach us queers here, and the feedback from a handful of black users here is that #blahajzone has also been generally been harassment free in comparison to other servers they've been on.
Imo, it's actually not to hard as a queer or trans person to find #servers on the #fediverse that will protect you from harassment, but that it is harder to find servers that will also protect indigenous, black, Asian users from racist harassment. And too many queer white folks get a free pass for ignorance tbh, a privilege that many of us have had for far too long.
It's much the same on #Bluesky where I haven't been harassed for being #queer and trans - again there's large communities and plenty of allies - but anti-black racism has been in the spotlight again recently and the devs called out for lagging behind on safety and moderation features that bigots exploit for harassment campaigns.
Far too many fediverse projects are led by men, mostly white men, who are lionised, promoted and financed by another layer of mostly white men. They ultimately get the veto on minority protections.
And now we're nearly at 1000 accounts and it still feels like an oasis from hate. I love that this place exists, our safety is paramount, and that won't change regardless of what other servers do. #trans#fediverse#fediversesafety#calckey#hajkey#findaserver
A big hello and welcome to all the new people who've joined #blahajzone the past couple of days. It's great to have you here!
Our admins are @ada and @supakaity.
Ada leads the front of house and moderation side of Blåhaj Zone, while Kaity leads the back-end and maintains Hajkey for us & a small group of other instances.
We also have a #Lemmy server available for signups at https://lemmy.blahaj.zone and a #kbin server that's soon to be open, for those looking for #Reddit - like communities. They can also be interacted with from here or other places in the Fediverse.
The server home.social has indicated it will be shutting down in about 3 weeks, on June, 16th.
If you or somebody you know on that server would be a good fit for sunny.garden, registrations are open.
sunny.garden is a community for artists, musicians and creators who draw, write, design, program, play, sing or build (or garden!). You're also welcome if you just like the vibe :blobsmilehappyeyes:
lediver.se ist offen für alle die von mastodon.social wechseln wollen!
Wir sind da für euch, wenn ihr ein einen gut moderierten Server sucht. Ganz egal ob ihr aus eurem Alltag postet, euch für queere Rechte stark macht oder etwas ganz anderes teilen wollt. In Leipzig entstanden, offen für alle!
@atomicpoet I think whatever we become we'll really only have 'succeeded' if #Calckey leads the way with #FediverseSafety ahead of features and scale.
The Calckey I see would
have a diverse team of folks that has the time to listen to the safety discourses, and the lived experience to know why safety matters, and informs their #development decisions.
make importing #blocklists or integrating third party #moderation tools easypeasy, so no user finds themselves on an new server that's open to dogpiled by the worst elements of the #Fediverse.
have granular user controls for #safety - opt-in & opt-out; and features - like turning down/off MFM when it's overwhelming without a user needing to resort to CSS scripts.
not really care to be a birdsite or #Mastodon alternative. Let's work to be a better secret third thing, or fourth, or fifth thing.
If we really have to duplicate the big influencer account thing, I'd like to see more non-White, autistic, disabled, queers, and women voices. They're here, but they're often forced to be critics of a newer hegemony. Let's be listening for how can Calckey become the main service of choice for Black, POC and Indigenous women to join, spin up servers, become developers, and have prominent voices on. The rest of the good stuff will follow that.
I think we can do that, but only if we prioritise, and promote minority voices, and do the structural work to support them coming to the service.
The server mastodon.lol seems to have shut down for good, about 5 days earlier than had been announced.
It won't be possible to migrate from old accounts with the server offline, but if you or somebody you know from the server would be a good fit for sunny.garden, registrations are open.
sunny.garden is a community for artists, musicians and creators who draw, write, design, program, play, sing or build (or garden!). You're also welcome if you just like the vibe :blobsmilehappyeyes:
Cool, as if mastodon.social wasn't a big enough problem already, now the "official mastodon app" strongly directs new users there, leading to even more centralisation.
It's as if Eugen is actively trying to undermine federation as a concept.
Every day is a good day to move from mastodon.social to a different server. There's very likely several out there that fit you much better and have far more effective moderation.
The more distributed people are the more resilient this entire network is against corporate interests, like what happened to Twitter. If you moved here from post-Musk-Twitter, it's honestly in your own interest to not just stay on mastodon.social.
A smaller server also means you can get in touch with the people who run it and have an active influence on the overall vibe there.
Look around at the people you follow and interact with. Chances are, a lot of them are not on the same server as you are. Check out the local timelines of theirs, see if you like the vibe. Also, ask around.
Check out #FindAServer to see some options right away or take a look over at https://fedi.garden. They have a large curated list of servers to pick from.
Some servers (like ours) don't have fully open registrations and require manual approval of accounts. It's usually to protect from spammers (and worse, and it's very effective). Don't get that discourage you, just request an account, it's fine.
Two month reminder that mastodon.lol has indicated it will be shutting down on May 9 :yell:
If you or somebody you know on that server would be a good fit for sunny.garden, registrations are open.
sunny.garden is a community for artists, musicians and creators who draw, write, design, program, play, sing or build (or garden!). You're also welcome if you just like the vibe :blobsmilehappyeyes:
All new applications are reviewed by a human, and you'll need to say something about fandom or blorbos. No need for an essay; you can just write the word "fandom" and nothing else. :blobhaj_mlem: