Appreciate I’m posting a lot about the latest drama, and the unexamined transmisogyny at the root of it, but I think we are at a bit of an inflection point now.
It appears that a lot of this singling out of trans women heavy instances has come from a few small servers that were heavily involved in the block list project, and mastodon.art, a large server that were it smaller, I suspect would be widely defederated.
As far as I can tell, most of the smaller servers are offline at this point, including Frontman-Mc-TechbRo’s own single user server.
No idea if this is temporary, or whether the tide has turned and enough people are now providing pushback to the “trans women are basically inclined towards naziism and that’s just how it is” bullshit they were spreading a few days ago.
I am hoping that we have turned a corner. Let’s see.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Yeah it's fascinating how this precise thing came to a head on bluesky at the same time for different reasons, too.
Like I said last night, birds are coming home to roost.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • •I’m not going to outright condemn that, because while I’ve never participated in a DDOS, I’ve definitely done “dark side of the force” stuff to disrupt organised trabsphobia before, and left others feeling squeamish about what I did (no, I will not be taking questions).
I just don’t like the idea of attacking the underlying network, even if it is done for “the right reasons”.
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in reply to Charles ☭ is now tooting from queer.party • •@Charles ☭ H We have history, which is why you're not getting the magic fuckity bye button immediately.
But do FUCKING NOT mansplain transmisogyny to me.
One and only warning.
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