Notices by 🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana (revoluciana@chaosfem.tw), page 2

"I wonder how many of you are afraid to speak or make your voice heard, not only at work, but in other places, for fear of losing your job if your employer found out.

How absolutely fucked up is it that your so-called right to exercise your freedom of speech is hindered almost entirely by the fact that you might not only be fired, but ruin your entire career, just by speaking?"

"Do you know who doesn't have this issue? The owners. They can say whatever they want without fear of being fired. Sure, people can boycott. There are definitely consequences, but the consequences are not really the same for the people who have exploited, amassed, and hoarded large quantities of wealth, are they? Most people are in an existential crisis if they miss a paycheck or two. I'm not going to feel bad for Nazi billionaires when people torch their product line."

"How fair is it to really say that employees have agreed upon the terms of the employer-employee relationship when they have little to no leverage or power, and all employers are in a governmentally enforced form of collusion that lead to only marginal differences between employers?"

"How fair is it really to say that employees have agreed upon the terms when their lives, and the lives of their family members, are at stake? Meanwhile the employer treats them as a commodity and suffers essentially no consequences for firing or choosing not to hire a particular employee? The employer can, and does, squeeze the employee for every ounce of profit it can in this relationship."

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# 🚨Mod Announcement🚨
Decision to Defederate from Pixelfed Instances

Our instance, chaosfem.tw, has made the decision to defederate from Pixelfed instances, at least for the time being. We feel the need to announce this as it may affect our users-- Pixelfed claims to have 150,000 monthly active users. Some of our own users have accounts there and likewise many of our users interact with other Pixelfed accounts from our instance.

## Why?
Pixelfed is leaking our data, and, it seems, the data of any other instance it federates with on Mastodon. We've been confused and tracking this for some time, but have been uncertain what was happening exactly. This post sums up the issue better than I can:

https://fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html

It's clear that this leak is not a priority for Dansup, the sole maintainer of Pixelfed.

However, it's a danger for instances like ours, with vulnerable users, but realistically, it's a danger for any instance to expect privacy and have it neglected and disrespected to this degree.

## Will we federate with Pixelfed instances in the future?
Idk, possibly? But at the very least, we must have assurance that a particular pixelfed instance has been updated to v1.12.5 in order for us to even consider federating again. However, there are serious concerns about the fact that Pixelfed is run by someone who is hostile and neglectful to the Mastodon community and has a history of not taking security concerns seriously. And moreover, Pixelfed doesn't even have federated blocking implemented, so the only thing that can be done is to defederate, and even then, this only affects *new* posts.

## Difficulty
Like Mastodon, Pixelfed is a separate project built on ActivityPub protocol, so it's not as simple as blocking another instance. This is blocking the entire project, and the instances running it. We don't make this decision lightly, and we hope you understand why we felt this necessary to protect our users who deserve an expectation of privacy.

@MzAprilDaniels @Eilistraee @lulu #fediblock

What happens when the punishment is the same for violence and non-violence?

Newsletter:
https://www.revoluciana.net/backs-against-the-wall/

"You're drenched in sweat, but you don't have time to think about that right now. You round the corner, almost knocking someone over who looks almost exactly like your sweet (but racist) old landlady.

Actually, you realize, I think that really is my landlady.

You give no apology, you just run.

Before you fully turn away, you see her face begin to take on the expression of something unnatural. Something vicious."

"Running again, you don't look back, but you can sense others rounding the corner, and you expect she's joined the mob, along with so many that you know, and so many more you don't. They yell that they are going to murder you. Every single one screams it at you.

They're not zombies. They're just people. You realized they've always been this way, it's just that something has risen to the surface, something they have chosen to unmask– to unleash."

"You catch up with someone else who is also running in the same direction as you. You almost trip, but they catch you. They don't know you, but they know enough to have solidarity. You wonder for a moment if the look in their eyes is a mirror of your own terror.

The vicious ones from behind are catching up."

"You both round another corner into an alley and before you know it, you've hit a dead-end. The ground trembles and a brick wall rises forth from the ground in front of you. You turn back.

too late"

...

>>> I'm not actually sure if people realize when I post these excerpts, that I'm generally posting teasers and not posting the *entire* post (at least not usually). The newsletter is free and you don't even have to subscribe (but you can, and that's free, too).

So yeah, just a heads-up on that.

Continuing with the teasers >>>

Dr. King, while advocating for non-violence, used to say that, "a riot is the language of the unheard."

What do you think will happen when our backs are against the wall?

"What will happen when it's illegal to be #trans everywhere and there's nowhere for us to run anymore?

Do you think we will all just #detransition, wash our hands, and say, well, we gave it a good run, now back to the grind?"

"What happens when the punishment for the crime of existing is the same as the crime for resistance. What happens when the punishment is the same for violence and non-violence?

What do you think will happen?

What do you think will happen when they have no other option?

What do you think people will choose?"

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I hate the number of people I read who write on Substack.

And I hate that there are more people I *want* to read, but I can't get myself to do so because I don't want to increase my Substack readership by following them there.

I try not to give too much judgement about it, but there are other really good options, and it actually does affect my willingness to read someone's work. We don't need to use the ones who platform and promote Nazis. We really don't.

I have to admit, as much joy as I get from each and every new subscriber to my newsletter, there is just something so *vindicating* when people *unsubscribe* because I'm being too mean to Nazis.