I abandoned Reddit over the weekend in advance of the blackout. As a trans woman, I tended to keep myself to myself in some very subject specific subreddits and avoided anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment for the most part (although certainly not homophobic language). Not ideal but it was manageable.

I was wondering how everybody in the same boat as me has found Lemmy? I had relatively high hopes given my positive experiences with the Fedivers in the past on Mastodon instances. Most there had pretty progressive stances even if they were not specifically LGBTQ+ focused.

Anyway, I lasted two days on lemmy.world. I wanted to be positive and explore and engage widely but there was zero action taken on slurs and transphobic concern trolling comments. Then the parental concern posts from other instances started popping into the All / Active feed, and I figured there was little chance of seeing any instance defederations happening. I could only see one defederation listed total.

I suppose I could have stuck it out for longer. The trouble is I have seen all of this before many times over. So here I am on lemmy.blahaj.zone instead. 💚

  • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Well, Mastodon is just older and more matured compared to lemmy. The biggest Mastodon instance run by the main Mastodon Dev Eugen Rochko features an elephant holding up a trans flag. I may be wrong about this but the Lemmy devs seem to be leaning heavily into authoritarian communism. So left-wing fascists. Not a big fan personally. Anyways, I moved over with some of our very active german community on reddit. I think feddit is one of the bigger instances available :)