#techlgbt — Public Fediverse posts
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Ready for a social media glow-up? Ditch the algorithm drama: explore the Fediverse! Head over to Mastodon and, if you're part of the LGBTQ+ fam, find your welcoming home at tech.lgbt. Your online life deserves to be authentic, empowering, and joyful. Let's build it!
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I want to give a token of appreciation to the staff of tech.lgbt for being autism friendly and properly filtering out bigoted instances. Also, thank you folks for allowing me to pin many messages. :) #techlgbt #praise #goodjob #moderation
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Fedipact: A list of Mastodon servers and their policy towards Threads. Many are in the Fedipact, declaring their intent to block Facebook's entry to the fediverse
https://fedipact.veganism.social/
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I’m a little confused so i’m just gonna ask around cause even going through hashtags seems to be more stuff and i’m lost
So what the heck happened with tech.lgbt and stuff? I never seen anything myself as a previous tech.lgbt user
#TechLgbt
RE: https://queer.group/users/jasmin/statuses/111093471812960402 -
CW: fedidrama, TheBadSpace situation
i just learned about the fedidrama that happened a few days ago and this is giving me a headache and I don't know how to respond to this. I don't want to be part of a bad instance and I don't know what to do. I want to give the mods the benefit of doubt that they will fix things but...
I don't mean to downplay the damage of the situation to BIPOC people, and I'm sorry if this comes across that way. I'm just trying to make sure I'm part of good instances and I'm concerned about the posts about tech.lgbt not being a well-moderated instance and the actions of one of the mods.
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@gotofritz of course #Portuguese is a #colonial language, there's no denying that and I'm quite aware of that.
However, I learned from the mistakes (and evils) of my ancestors and I'm quite determined to do my best to not allow that piece of #history to be repeated.
(Oh, nice. Another block from a #fosstodon user when mentioning #colonialist behavior . Looks like #TechLGBT is on target here.)
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If you haven't already, please consider supporting the Tech.LGBT server, @david, and @mods for their time and resources dedicated to creating and maintaining this server.
The $8/mo donation I make is the same that Birdsite is asking for, but is so much more valuable here. A small price to pay for a space that is welcoming, inclusive, and safe for our community.
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Just changed instances to #techlgbt, now I can do cool stuff like say :Fire_Trans:
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@kkarhan @you_jo_girl Here are a couple of snapshots about it.
https://aus.social/@sorrowful/109848732432433602
https://tech.lgbt/@Impossible_PhD/109874422621264962
In short, the moderation team of tech.lgbt is holding eightpoint.app to unreasonable standards (which they're not applying to other instances) under the guise of keeping their own users safe.
Keeping users safe is the ultimate goal of moderation, but they're being heavy-handed & unreasonable here about a perceived threat that doesn't exist.
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@kkarhan @you_jo_girl Here are a couple of snapshots about it.
https://aus.social/@sorrowful/109848732432433602
https://tech.lgbt/@Impossible_PhD/109874422621264962
In short, the moderation team of tech.lgbt is holding eightpoint.app to unreasonable standards (which they're not applying to other instances) under the guise of keeping their own users safe.
Keeping users safe is the ultimate goal of moderation, but they're being heavy-handed & unreasonable here about a perceived threat that doesn't exist.
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@kkarhan @you_jo_girl Here are a couple of snapshots about it.
https://aus.social/@sorrowful/109848732432433602
https://tech.lgbt/@Impossible_PhD/109874422621264962
In short, the moderation team of tech.lgbt is holding eightpoint.app to unreasonable standards (which they're not applying to other instances) under the guise of keeping their own users safe.
Keeping users safe is the ultimate goal of moderation, but they're being heavy-handed & unreasonable here about a perceived threat that doesn't exist.
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@kkarhan @you_jo_girl Here are a couple of snapshots about it.
https://aus.social/@sorrowful/109848732432433602
https://tech.lgbt/@Impossible_PhD/109874422621264962
In short, the moderation team of tech.lgbt is holding eightpoint.app to unreasonable standards (which they're not applying to other instances) under the guise of keeping their own users safe.
Keeping users safe is the ultimate goal of moderation, but they're being heavy-handed & unreasonable here about a perceived threat that doesn't exist.
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@kkarhan @you_jo_girl Here are a couple of snapshots about it.
https://aus.social/@sorrowful/109848732432433602
https://tech.lgbt/@Impossible_PhD/109874422621264962
In short, the moderation team of tech.lgbt is holding eightpoint.app to unreasonable standards (which they're not applying to other instances) under the guise of keeping their own users safe.
Keeping users safe is the ultimate goal of moderation, but they're being heavy-handed & unreasonable here about a perceived threat that doesn't exist.
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Anyone else having trouble moving their #mastodonlol account to a new profile?
https://mastodon.lol/settings/migration
I keep getting this error on submission:`Something isn't quite right yet! Please review the error below`.
My new account is https://tech.lgbt/@mynameishank
I've tried every iteration of the `username@domain` I can think of. Any help is appreciated!
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CW: A message to those defending Eightpoint (CW: SA, queerphobia, LONG read)
I get it. I get that having your corner of the internet break away from the rest is a MASSIVE pain in the ass. It feels even worse when, as far as you can tell, the issue has been handled. "Laurelai/Slaanesh isn't in charge anymore. She can't do more harm, and she deserves a chance to be part of this community."
What I think you all need to understand is that this isn't just someone who said shitty things or did a racism and has since apologized. From what we can gather, she's been accused of using a platform much like this one as a means of collecting SA victims. Coming around to a newly-popular social media platform — one used largely by queer people, mind you — and forming a community of her own under a pseudonym is, to put it bluntly, a REALLY suspicious thing for someone with that kind of history to do.
I can't say for certain if Kolektiva's original "crusade" against 8pt was based in transphobia. But I do know that once the true identity of #Slaanesh was uncovered, it became a matter of keeping OTHER QUEER PEOPLE safe from one queer person who happened to be problematic. If you need any further indication that this isn't fueled by transphobia, just look at tech.lgbt's response! Their MAJORITY-TRANS modmin team decided to defederate because they wanted to keep their people from interacting with a known predator.
The LGBTQIA+ community is one that values consent and safety. After all, we've been repeatedly violated in BOTH of those regards on a systemic scale. We're assaulted, verbally and physically abused, and generally treated as second-class citizens for loving and living authentically. It's extremely important for us to work AGAINST this sort of abuse, and it's even MORE vital to do so when it happens within our own community.
As a minority group with these values, not to mention one that has been consistently held down with accusations of being sexual predators, I would expect that we would be more harshly and vehemently opposed to giving such people a second chance. The fact that we have people trying to welcome an ACTUAL offender back into the community is the crux of the issue.
There is no "restorative justice" to be had here. Someone who was poised to abuse a position of power was ousted from that position, and from the community in which she held that position. For said community to then say "actually, come on back in, but you can't be an admin anymore" is absolutely absurd. It totally disregards the safety of those who don't know who LB is, who don't know her history.
I know I'm going to be accused of spreading #FUD about a trans woman, which is fucking ridiculous because I AM one. But it's important to acknowledge that there are bad actors in ANY group of people. The vast majority of queer people aren't abusers, but there can be and are exceptions, and LB is likely one of them. We can't come to her defense just because she's one of us.
I say this as someone who has been assaulted by another transfem before.
So to summarize:
⋄ Kolektiva's unmasking of Slaanesh, even if not INITIALLY well-intentioned, was not ultimately based in transphobia. I don't doubt there were SOME people involved with that goal in mind, but that doesn't make the situation they uncovered any less serious.
⋄ tech.lgbt's decision to defederate after #eightpoint modmins refused to oust LB entirely is ALSO not based in transphobia, obviously. Said decision was made by a panel of mostly trans people.
⋄ I am questioning the judgment and intentions of anyone who thinks LB should be forgiven and kept around. Trans or not, she is a known danger to those with whom she tries to interact, and I do not believe that knowingly allowing her to do so is the right decision here.
⋄ I recognize that banning her allows her to just make another pseudonym and rejoin the Fediverse elsewhere…but she would be able to do this ANYWAY. At least by publicly disallowing her return, 8pt would be taking a stance. Instead they insist that she deserves a second chance if she wants one, and that's not okay with me.
⋄ I do not blame anyone who was already on eightpoint.app and who wishes to stay there for their own subset of the community, but I would STRONGLY discourage Mastodon/Fediverse newcomers from joining that instance.
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My personal stance on #Eightpointapp RE: #techlgbt defed
We are a small server, but I was asked about this, so here we go.
I once stopped going to a coffee shop for 3 years because I was fed a nothing sandwich by internet outrage. Ever since I have been very careful with blanket decisions, especially when they impact others.
Most defeds I've done have been for trolls or Nazis.
We were all done with this situation back when the user was removed from their administrative post at #Eightpoint and left the server.
I want to be utterly clear, Laurelai Bailey is a bad person. She is not welcome on coop.lol now or at any point in the future. The amount of drama involving her across the internet is absolutely ludicrous for someone so unnoteworthy.
Incoming a super brief rundown. She has had allegations of SA placed against her. She has levied claims of libel against those accusers. In both situations, potential victims have made their decision to not pursue legal recourse. Clearly the truth must lie somewhere in the murky middle there, where only the people present actually know for certain what happened.
She has also been known to be an FBI informant. She was a mod for r/antiwork and r/ContraPoints and was removed following information that determined who she was.
I am not aware of any servers that she is currently on. If that changes, discussions will be held and a decision will be made then, not before. Anything short of that is harmful to the community at large.
cc: @12
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My personal stance on #Eightpointapp RE: #techlgbt defed
We are a small server, but I was asked about this, so here we go.
I once stopped going to a coffee shop for 3 years because I was fed a nothing sandwich by internet outrage. Ever since I have been very careful with blanket decisions, especially when they impact others.
Most defeds I've done have been for trolls or Nazis.
We were all done with this situation back when the user was removed from their administrative post at #Eightpoint and left the server.
I want to be utterly clear, Laurelai Bailey is a bad person. She is not welcome on coop.lol now or at any point in the future. The amount of drama involving her across the internet is absolutely ludicrous for someone so unnoteworthy.
Incoming a super brief rundown. She has had allegations of SA placed against her. She has levied claims of libel against those accusers. In both situations, potential victims have made their decision to not pursue legal recourse. Clearly the truth must lie somewhere in the murky middle there, where only the people present actually know for certain what happened.
She has also been known to be an FBI informant. She was a mod for r/antiwork and r/ContraPoints and was removed following information that determined who she was.
I am not aware of any servers that she is currently on. If that changes, discussions will be held and a decision will be made then, not before. Anything short of that is harmful to the community at large.
cc: @12
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My personal stance on #Eightpointapp RE: #techlgbt defed
We are a small server, but I was asked about this, so here we go.
I once stopped going to a coffee shop for 3 years because I was fed a nothing sandwich by internet outrage. Ever since I have been very careful with blanket decisions, especially when they impact others.
Most defeds I've done have been for trolls or Nazis.
We were all done with this situation back when the user was removed from their administrative post at #Eightpoint and left the server.
I want to be utterly clear, Laurelai Bailey is a bad person. She is not welcome on coop.lol now or at any point in the future. The amount of drama involving her across the internet is absolutely ludicrous for someone so unnoteworthy.
Incoming a super brief rundown. She has had allegations of SA placed against her. She has levied claims of libel against those accusers. In both situations, potential victims have made their decision to not pursue legal recourse. Clearly the truth must lie somewhere in the murky middle there, where only the people present actually know for certain what happened.
She has also been known to be an FBI informant. She was a mod for r/antiwork and r/ContraPoints and was removed following information that determined who she was.
I am not aware of any servers that she is currently on. If that changes, discussions will be held and a decision will be made then, not before. Anything short of that is harmful to the community at large.
cc: @12
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My personal stance on #Eightpointapp RE: #techlgbt defed
We are a small server, but I was asked about this, so here we go.
I once stopped going to a coffee shop for 3 years because I was fed a nothing sandwich by internet outrage. Ever since I have been very careful with blanket decisions, especially when they impact others.
Most defeds I've done have been for trolls or Nazis.
We were all done with this situation back when the user was removed from their administrative post at #Eightpoint and left the server.
I want to be utterly clear, Laurelai Bailey is a bad person. She is not welcome on coop.lol now or at any point in the future. The amount of drama involving her across the internet is absolutely ludicrous for someone so unnoteworthy.
Incoming a super brief rundown. She has had allegations of SA placed against her. She has levied claims of libel against those accusers. In both situations, potential victims have made their decision to not pursue legal recourse. Clearly the truth must lie somewhere in the murky middle there, where only the people present actually know for certain what happened.
She has also been known to be an FBI informant. She was a mod for r/antiwork and r/ContraPoints and was removed following information that determined who she was.
I am not aware of any servers that she is currently on. If that changes, discussions will be held and a decision will be made then, not before. Anything short of that is harmful to the community at large.
cc: @12
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My personal stance on #Eightpointapp RE: #techlgbt defed
We are a small server, but I was asked about this, so here we go.
I once stopped going to a coffee shop for 3 years because I was fed a nothing sandwich by internet outrage. Ever since I have been very careful with blanket decisions, especially when they impact others.
Most defeds I've done have been for trolls or Nazis.
We were all done with this situation back when the user was removed from their administrative post at #Eightpoint and left the server.
I want to be utterly clear, Laurelai Bailey is a bad person. She is not welcome on coop.lol now or at any point in the future. The amount of drama involving her across the internet is absolutely ludicrous for someone so unnoteworthy.
Incoming a super brief rundown. She has had allegations of SA placed against her. She has levied claims of libel against those accusers. In both situations, potential victims have made their decision to not pursue legal recourse. Clearly the truth must lie somewhere in the murky middle there, where only the people present actually know for certain what happened.
She has also been known to be an FBI informant. She was a mod for r/antiwork and r/ContraPoints and was removed following information that determined who she was.
I am not aware of any servers that she is currently on. If that changes, discussions will be held and a decision will be made then, not before. Anything short of that is harmful to the community at large.
cc: @12
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@ellesaurus Yeah: no actual further incident has occurred 😞
I'm disappointed with the actions being taken here by tech.lgbt & I hope that they back down over this, but I sadly doubt that they will 😢
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@ellesaurus Yeah: no actual further incident has occurred 😞
I'm disappointed with the actions being taken here by tech.lgbt & I hope that they back down over this, but I sadly doubt that they will 😢
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@ellesaurus Yeah: no actual further incident has occurred 😞
I'm disappointed with the actions being taken here by tech.lgbt & I hope that they back down over this, but I sadly doubt that they will 😢
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@ellesaurus Yeah: no actual further incident has occurred 😞
I'm disappointed with the actions being taken here by tech.lgbt & I hope that they back down over this, but I sadly doubt that they will 😢
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@ellesaurus Yeah: no actual further incident has occurred 😞
I'm disappointed with the actions being taken here by tech.lgbt & I hope that they back down over this, but I sadly doubt that they will 😢
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CW: Tech.lgbt defederating Eightpoint.app
In short, because #Eightpoint refuse to block a former admin, outed as a serial rapist from their instance. This harbouring of a sexual predator is putting their community and the wider #fediverse at risk, which goes against #techlgbt's standards for safety & ethics.
I personally agree with the defederating, and think until Eightpoint take a firm public stance against these kinds of things, other instances should follow Tech's lead.
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So I hadn’t been following the #eightpoint and #TechLGBT thing, but having read some of the exchange and the emails that are given I just feel that there’s an odd understanding of ‘Restorative Justice’. And having read the book, “On Repentance and Repair” (a Jewish approach) I feel like the *actual* victims of the perpetrator maybe haven’t been involved as much as they should be?
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So I hadn’t been following the #eightpoint and #TechLGBT thing, but having read some of the exchange and the emails that are given I just feel that there’s an odd understanding of ‘Restorative Justice’. And having read the book, “On Repentance and Repair” (a Jewish approach) I feel like the *actual* victims of the perpetrator maybe haven’t been involved as much as they should be?
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So I hadn’t been following the #eightpoint and #TechLGBT thing, but having read some of the exchange and the emails that are given I just feel that there’s an odd understanding of ‘Restorative Justice’. And having read the book, “On Repentance and Repair” (a Jewish approach) I feel like the *actual* victims of the perpetrator maybe haven’t been involved as much as they should be?
#EightPointApp -
So I hadn’t been following the #eightpoint and #TechLGBT thing, but having read some of the exchange and the emails that are given I just feel that there’s an odd understanding of ‘Restorative Justice’. And having read the book, “On Repentance and Repair” (a Jewish approach) I feel like the *actual* victims of the perpetrator maybe haven’t been involved as much as they should be?
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So I hadn’t been following the #eightpoint and #TechLGBT thing, but having read some of the exchange and the emails that are given I just feel that there’s an odd understanding of ‘Restorative Justice’. And having read the book, “On Repentance and Repair” (a Jewish approach) I feel like the *actual* victims of the perpetrator maybe haven’t been involved as much as they should be?
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I'm new on mastodon. Are there always so much dramatic server issues?
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CW: Defederation drama
I have friends on tech.lgbt & eightpoint.app.
I have friends on both sides of this divide who are pissed at the other side.
If I side with one bunch of friends, I lose the other.
If I don't take a side, I'll probably lose both for trying to be neutral.
FUCKBERRIES!!! 😭
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CW: Defederation drama
I have friends on tech.lgbt & eightpoint.app.
I have friends on both sides of this divide who are pissed at the other side.
If I side with one bunch of friends, I lose the other.
If I don't take a side, I'll probably lose both for trying to be neutral.
FUCKBERRIES!!! 😭
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CW: Defederation drama
I have friends on tech.lgbt & eightpoint.app.
I have friends on both sides of this divide who are pissed at the other side.
If I side with one bunch of friends, I lose the other.
If I don't take a side, I'll probably lose both for trying to be neutral.
FUCKBERRIES!!! 😭
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CW: Defederation drama
I have friends on tech.lgbt & eightpoint.app.
I have friends on both sides of this divide who are pissed at the other side.
If I side with one bunch of friends, I lose the other.
If I don't take a side, I'll probably lose both for trying to be neutral.
FUCKBERRIES!!! 😭
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CW: Defederation drama
I have friends on tech.lgbt & eightpoint.app.
I have friends on both sides of this divide who are pissed at the other side.
If I side with one bunch of friends, I lose the other.
If I don't take a side, I'll probably lose both for trying to be neutral.
FUCKBERRIES!!! 😭
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@kaycrosby This is the post I saw yesterday about tech.lgbt. I'm not saying that I agree or disagree with the stance taken: just that it's something to take into consideration.
Apologies that it took me a while to find.
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Migrated from #MastodonLol to #TechLGBT and the whole process was pretty straightforward and "it just works", but then I noticed that my home timeline was oddly sparse. Turns out that while you can migrate follows, any #hashtags you might be following don't come along for the ride. Followed hashtags also aren't exportable/importable.
Turns out an easy web UI way to list the tags was added to Mastodon 4.1.0 which was released *yesterday*, so it's not likely that #MastodonLol will be upgrading at this point.
Guess it's time to throw together some code and try to hit the API directly?
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@trisschen I literally just created an account on #techlgbt, dafuq 😭😭
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#techlgbt Just to say, I love the local timeline and even though I don't understand the computer tech stuff, it's a very sweetly sentimental, furry version of tech, with life mixed in.
So thanks everyone here, there and everywhere. And I apologize because my whole thing is crisis lines and it's not so much fun as it is necessary. Ciao.
