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.

  • cowboycrustation [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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    7 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.

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      7 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)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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        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.

    • kristina (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      7 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