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   Katie Fenn (katiefenn@front-end.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 17:56:30 JST Katie Fenn

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   I’ve been off Twitter for two weeks now, and I’ve gained a bit of perspective about how much organising still happens on the platform.

   The Twitter thread is still our primary source of news and information. All this becomes inaccessible the moment you move off Twitter. And as more and more people quit Twitter, our community is fracturing and becoming less powerful.

   I think this really hit us hard when the Cass report was published. Our adversaries are organised, and we are scattered.

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     Katie Fenn (katiefenn@front-end.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 17:56:35 JST Katie Fenn

     Last week the LGBTIQA+ Greens, the officially affiliated liberation group for the Green Party of England and Wales, lost its Twitter account for unknown reasons. It was suspended. It was appealed. The appeal went nowhere.

     I cannot state enough that trans people need to urgently divest from Twitter. The network is actively hostile to us now.

     Maintaining a presence is fine, but we must move the centre of gravity for organising onto other platforms.

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     Katie Fenn (katiefenn@front-end.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 22:10:59 JST Katie Fenn

     • emilygorcenski

     @emilygorcenski That’s true. It shows that they were organised ahead of time when it came out. They’d briefed sympathetic and influential people, and made sure that critics were spending the whole day reading the damn thing while they were giving interviews.

     In fact, I think the fact that the earliest criticisms were based off of an easily refuted, leaked press briefing really hurt us.

     We should be doing the same - organise off the platform, and channel it through Twitter.