https://hexbear.net/post/2226865

You can find further details on how the survey was conducted here (yes I was drunk the whole time). 158 people responded yes or maybe. Noticed the survey here recently and wanted to share.

  • kristina (she/her)OPEnglish
    8•3 months ago

    as a mod of c/traa on hexbear, yeah if it were me id love to just to link all the trans comms together. having them all split just increases workload and burnout on trans mods of all instances dealing with transphobia and spreads out the trans community too much. this is why we have 23 mods on c/traa, to spread out the annoyance and remove bad content before any vulnerable people see it. we usually remove bad stuff within 5 minutes, no matter the timezone. its also more democratic, less cliquey, and we regularly ask people to mod with no requirement other than being trans/adjacent. in fact, if you asked to mod on c/traa id add you in a heartbeat

    there were also some significant issues with dm harassment from 196 users towards trans women, and we’re extremely overprotective of our vulnerable users so we’re much more likely to pull the plug on federation than other instances if even a few infractions have happened without people being banned/posts removed from that instance.

    if it was possible to federate with only the trans communities here, i feel like everyone would agree with it.

    • cowboycrustation [he/him]MEnglish
      7•3 months ago

      That sucks that happened with 196. I blocked it pretty much the day I got Lemmy because I found the content annoying. It seems so out of place on this instance. My experience on here has been good so far.

      I agree with you that most people would want to unite if it were only the trans communities on here. The more people, the more support and resources.

      • @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        5•3 months ago

        Grain of salt: the Hexbear admins fail to mention any “DM harassment of trans women” (from 196 or blahaj) in their defederation announcement, which seems like a huge detail to leave out if you’re defederating over alleged transphobia.

        And spinning stuff like that is why I don’t trust people trying to upsell Hexbear 🤷‍♂️

        • kristina (she/her)OPEnglish
          4•3 months ago

          Grain of salt: the Hexbear admins fail to mention any “DM harassment of trans women” (from 196 or blahaj) in their defederation announcement, which seems like a huge detail to leave out if you’re defederating over alleged transphobia.

          Most defederation announcements don’t usually assign a cause, a user usually requests it in a thread and then the admins bring it to a vote if it gets enough attention. I personally voted to stay with blahaj but with the addendum that we ban all regular 196 posters and mods. If you search around you can see a handful of people posting personal experiences with harassment from 196 here. Its been a long time but I recall getting sexually harassed as well, though that user did eventually get banned here much later.

          Out of the hundred or so very active trans commenters, only 5 voted to stay federated with blahaj, me included. Though some trans people were very hurt by this, so ultimately I was fine with defed, I voted to stay federated mostly for trans unity reasons.

              • @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                1•3 months ago

                Not sure what the veganism post has to do with anything. Edit: I think the link was borked for me, it’s working now.

                It’s weird that no Meganium97 shows up at all in Blahaj’s modlogs, how’s that happen?

      • kristina (she/her)OPEnglish
        4•3 months ago

        yeah i block it on this account too. far too jarring and it clogs out all the cool lgbt stuff.

        im also very serious about my offer to add any trans people here as a mod on c/traa btw. hit me up if you want it 🤣

        we even have a super secret evil group chat