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Edit - Hexbear announced plans to deferedate from us.

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After recent events, it feels to me that sentiment has shifted and more people are asking for defederation of hexbear than previously

I’ve been doing my best to try and mend bridges and keep us connected, as it’s my hope that we can maintain trans solidarity and work with them, despite the friction, however, ultimately, I feel that this is an issue for the blahaj lemmy community to decide, not the admins alone

So here’s what we’re going to do

We’re going to leave things as they are for a week. That will give time for things to calm down whilst we see if we can work together. After a week, I’ll put up a vote and get a feel for where the community is at in regards to our continued federation with hexbear. That poll will run for a week. If there is a strong will to defederate (a clear majority), then that’s what we will do

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    We have very much not taken hold in society. We are under attack in ways that are often quite literally killing us, and unlike the fediverse at large, the threadiverse is full of trans hostile folk on generalist instances, many with admins that won’t deal with anything but the most egregious transphobia.

    I genuinely believe that empowering trans communities and trans folk in the threadiverse is super important in changing that.

    Splitting us apart makes that harder, and keeps the threadiverse more hostile overall. Of course, sticking together doesn’t help if the hostility is coming from within the house, but my hope is that we can get that part sorted out. Maybe we can’t, and if that’s the case, we will do what we have to do, but I would like to make the attempt, because I think that in the long term, learning to work with other trans protective instances will empower us all