Notices by The Fedilore Otter 🦦 (fedilore@mastodon.social), page 2

People spreading that bullshit aren't confused.

This is well established propaganda, intentionally spread by people who want to cause harm to queer people.

Bigots have been calling queer people Nazis for literally as long as there have been Nazis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Nazis_myth

I don't want to make things worse by adding visibility to queer drama that people might not have seen, but I do want to flag:

If you see people accusing a group of trans women of something, stop and think through what's happening.

The standard of evidence required for social attacks against trans women is incredibly low.

We should try to identify when that's happening and stop it.

“Punishment is not something that happens to bad people. It happens to those who cannot stop it from happening.

It is laundered pain, not a balancing of scales.”

https://thenewinquiry.com/hot-allostatic-load/

The transfem instance being accused of all sorts of horrible things is one of the kindest and most responsibly managed instances on fedi.

The instances making these claims are also mostly queer people.

The accusations are seemingly pretty silly stuff, blown up into something huge, and presented without receipts.

Lefties do this. Other queer people do this. Other trans women do this.

One of the reasons that trans women are so socially vulnerable is because there's so much social pressure to believe false accusations made against trans women, or to round up small errors made by trans women into giant conflicts.

It's on you to be able to identify when this is happening, and do what you can to stop it.

There's nothing inherent about Black radical politics that causes transphobia, misogyny, or anti-Indigenous racism.

Kind of the opposite. When you adjust for age and intersecting oppression, you'd expect that radicals are going to be more likely to be allies on other issues.

But people sometimes fail to live up to their ideals and end up defending institutions of power where they're personally in a position to benefit from those systems.

Especially when there's trauma involved.

Ro's Black radical politics are something that I genuinely admire.

If Ro wasn't also a bigot and TBS wasn't causing explicitly transphobic harm, I would never talk about Ro or TBS.

This account would not exist.

My admiration for the political motivation behind TBS would win out, over all the other obvious and inherent flaws in the system.

Yes, a small number of genuine radical feminists decide to punch down and attack trans people.

Some radical feminists abandon their principles, when they're given the opportunity to oppress members of a more vulnerable class.

But this is obviously not a feature of radical feminism - it's a failure of the movement.

This is why I support radical feminism and radical movements for queer liberation.

Institution of power based on sex, gender, or sexuality are obviously unjust and radical movements are the ones who want to tear down those unjust power structures.

And that should be obvious!

Black radical politics aren't about hating people of other races.

That would be ridiculous.

It's a politics of autonomy and liberation for a historically oppressed class.

A Black-controlled blocklist for the purpose of Black safety on fedi is a fantastic idea that should, in principle, be supported by everybody.

Even if you're suspicious of blocklists generally.

Patriarchy is bad.

White supremacy is bad.

Christian supremacy is bad.

Heteronormativity is bad.

Cisnormativity is bad.

Corporate-oligarchy is bad.

Ablism is bad.

The gerontocracy is bad.

Monarchies are bad.

We should support the movements that want to tear down these unjust societal power structures.

And yeah, you should be heckin' suspicious of anybody who seems to think there's anything wrong with the principles of radical feminism.

Just like you should be suspicious of anybody who thinks Black radical movements promote racism against non-Black people.

Just like you should be suspicious of anybody who doesn't think Indigenous people should run their own child-protective services.

@Jain In terms of size:

"One of these 10,000 users clicked a link for 50% off adult diapers" is very different from "one of these 25 users clicked a link for 50% off adult diapers".

The census hides data on a lot of small communities, because their small size makes it possible to de-anonymize from population-level totals.

@Jain I think that if you're on a small enough instance where this is a meaningful privacy risk and you don't trust your admin, you have bigger privacy concerns.

Have three options.

- You can set your referral to your instance URL,

- You can set your referral to JoinMastodon.org, or

- You can set your referral to be blank.

Is there any technical reason that these are instance-specific referral headers?

I feel like a referral that described the software or protocol being used would make more sense for Fedi.

Have it say "Mastodon" or "ActivityPub" and then there are no privacy concerns and it's more useful data.

This is interesting.

I agree that this is something that most large, corporate, or professional instances should consider doing. If it is actually privacy preserving.

I also think that this is mostly a bad thing to turn on for most small instances.

https://mastodon.social/@Edent/114819318744425589

@Jain Elekk happened five years ago.

Using Jorts.Horse as an example:

🔴 Suspended by:
- rage.love
- mastodon.art
- solarpunk.moe

🟠 Limited by:
- cathode.church

🟢 No action taken:
- blackqueer.life

⚠️Of these five, 1 Suspend and 3 Silence:
- queer.group
- indiepocalypse.social
- queer.garden
- colorid.es
- dair-community.social

So based on some initial analysis of TBS, it looks like Mastodon.Art is the instance most likely to sign onto queerphobic/transphobic harassment campaigns.

And BlackQueer.Life is the least.

It's only possible to 100% check half the list, but... I am not surprised by those results.