OK. :: sets down suitcase :: Looks like I've moved over here from mastodon.social.
Seem to have lost my follows, but I think I can rebuild that.
So how about a little introduction post? I'm a woman in her '60s, living in Southeastern Pennsylvania. I have a partner, a 10-year old son, two Schipperkes, and five hens.
The question I ask myself a lot these days is, how do we survive the next century cooperatively? I'm alarmed by the risk of authoritarianism here in the US.
I can't speak for this instance but they were defederated by a few at the time, including my main instance, because the mods wouldn't deal with the transphobia coming from the instance and they had/have no rules against it.
TERF Island instance living up to its country's reputation, Canadian instances generally being cool to trans folk much like their country. They are not the same.
Mods who don't actively moderate and allow people to be assholes will soon find their servers added to a well-curated, distributable fediblock list that keeps receipts. 🎉
But it's also not entirely @gruber's fault because the media doesn't really talk about the Fediverse, and when they do, it's as a synonym for "Mastodon".
How would @gruber know about the massive development efforts to build more user-friendly alternatives to Mastodon?
No one in the media talks about the growth of *key apps, and how they're now the #2 most used Fediverse platform.
@rmattila74 It's arbitrary and is only seen as good conduct within parts of one part of the Fediverse, which has existed longer than Mastodon has. Even if you limit your scope just to the bunch of microblogging services alone, it's still not the norm.
This is how to use content warnings to keep the avalanche of bad news from vomiting over your trans friends. We can then choose to read it rather than have it forced into our faces and minds.
Can I suggest that folks here avail themselves of CWs and the like, particularly when blasting stuff about Fucker Gnarlson into the ears of neighbouring queers, if not just for those friends of #Calckey who can't not see countless mentions of it. My main is on blahaj.zone and we've dialled up our instance filtering on top of individual users having mutes set (if you spell his name correctly), same with some of our non-Calckey neighbours. We said we could do QTs better with good instance moderation and I'd like to see that. Tbh, a smaller version of mastodon.social is an easy candidate for fediblock.