Neodog with Glasses Plushie :neodog_glasses: :waow: <p>I joined the Fediverse in 2018, but only became highly active in 2023.<br>The state of the transgender community was some terminally diseased bullshit: you could disrupt federation by throwing the name of any trans girl you dislike to <a class="hashtag" href="https://fedi.aria.dog/tag/fediblock" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediblock</a> with nothing more than accusations of social adjacency to the wrong people. Destroy hundreds of connections over trumped-up charges. Many of my dear friends are no longer on the network because of this.</p><p>I found the network split into two hermetic clusters i like to call Tech Mastodon and Queer Fedi. The first is barely aware of the second, eager to gentrify it, and to speak over us.</p><p>I have written about these topics at length, and taken action about them. </p><p>I wrote an article that focuses on a nonprofit named <a class="hashtag" href="https://fedi.aria.dog/tag/iftas" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IFTAS</a>, due to their penchant for enabling abuse against us - this is a very long article, and the next links are more summarized:<br><a href="https://aria.dog/barks/ethics-in-transgenderism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://aria.dog/barks/ethics-in-transgenderism/</a></p><p>Once I learned the <a class="hashtag" href="https://fedi.aria.dog/tag/fediforum" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediForum</a> virtual conference was co-organized by a transphobe, me and friends dug up all the receipts in time, before they were concealed. I delivered an uninvited counter-talk, which is a good summary of our dysfunctional social dynamics: </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy5O2LjeuDY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy5O2LjeuDY</a></p><p>You might prefer to read this transcript: <a href="https://aria.dog/barks/mastodon-trust-and-safety-at-the-terf-conference/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://aria.dog/barks/mastodon-trust-and-safety-at-the-terf-conference/</a></p><p>The transcript also contains a section about death threats I received about this video, which US nonprofit companies i criticized multiple times, <a class="hashtag" href="https://fedi.aria.dog/tag/nivenly" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nivenly</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://fedi.aria.dog/tag/iftas" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IFTAS</a>, decided not to take action about, despite platforming the person who made those threats. IFTAS, in particular, had a previous history of transphobic death threats from its staff, and tried to conceal the evidence. Meanwhile, Nivenly used the name of a dead trans woman to deflect accountability, then said the death threats didn’t happen.</p><p>So long as death threats are in play, i have no inclination to be civil: my community’s penchant for civility is the reason we are easy to speak over. </p><p>Do not follow me to keep up with those topics, try <span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://mastodon.social/@fedilore" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fedilore</span></a></span> instead. Me, i just pop out of random wells to chastise you, without warning, and will try to keep my activity mostly away from this account.</p><p>BTW: Queers always keep receipts, and we’ll be gay much longer than gentrifiers will be solvent.</p>