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The more I see about this "Bad Space" thing, the more concerned I get. This is like that abortive united federation of instances thingy from last year that was run by the freeze peach crowd, only this one cloaks an apparent trans eliminationist agenda in the language of social justice. Apparently a lot of people find this superficially attractive.

If you are a trans-heavy instance, you might want to consider a fediblock of ubiqueros.com (AFAICS this is the "Bad Space" main instance) as necessary self defence. I am certainly going to.

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When I have some spare time, I'm probably going to be adding some of its contributing sources to my fediblock list as well. It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
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Note that portraying trans women en-masse as being inherently an attack on some marginalised group is nothing new. Our existence has been called misogynist, homophobic, and now, apparently, racist.

Same shit, different day. It's TERFles all the way down.

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Further to this, mastodon.art has gone too. Honestly, that entire instance just seems to have a habit of being present at the scene of bullshit deposition, usually with a bottle of bovine laxative in its rucksack.
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Acorn Squashbuckler
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Wait, are you talking about The Bad Space project by Ro?

thebad.space/about

I thought that was basically a directory of fedi instances with crummy mod policies. I think I remember the "united federation" drama from last year too. The Bad Space seems more like a blacklist than a badly-contrived rules manifesto.

I've started seeing some posts floating around regarding some "Good Space" thing, but all I've heard so far is the name. If it stands in opposition to The Bad Space I can see how it would be problematic though.

I think I'm confused…

About The Bad Space

thebad.space
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@Acorn Squashbuckler it appears to be a directory of the sort of instances everyone would want to block, AND instances run by or hosting trans women.

Fair warning, I have seen this shit before and an in a mood to deal with it by creating a fire break. My block finger is very itchy right now.

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@AcornSquashbuckler Some context for what's going on with The Bad Space and FSEP: hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111…

mekka okereke :verified:

2023-09-13 00:00:20


OK, let's get into it. Let's talk about anti-Blackness on this here Fediverse, "civility traps", and "why nazis wear suits."

First: there are some trans folk that love Black people, care about our safety, and want to see the Fediverse be more welcoming to Black users.♥️ These kind folk volunteer considerable time, money, effort, and social capital, to make the Fediverse more welcoming for Black folk. We love them for this.

But there are some trans folk that are super fashy, and hate Black folk.


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@Ben Hutchings @Acorn Squashbuckler Relevant to this, have also seen posts complaining that trans women (particularly) only ever seem to be welcome in spaces as long as we present as resources to be used, and that the idea that we have a right to just fucking exist somewhere seems utterly alien.

And there’s a lot of that sort of tone in the post you just quoted, along with the “you’re either helping us build our widget or you’re with the Nazis” false dichotomy.

This is a thing we have seen time and time again. When I was in politics, we were only ever engaged with when people wanted us to lend legitimacy to whatever they were doing. It pretty much NEVER got reciprocated.

We are used to being thusly shat on, but it doesn’t mean we have to be fucking nice about it.

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