Fingers crossed that RFK will transmit a worm to him or something by giving him raw milk and he just sits tweeting for the next 4 years

Has he restated this recently? It seems the original comment was back in May, hopefully he just forgot.

Good point, I originally made this as an image because someone requested that. Here’s the text

Important Online Safety PSA for American transgender people following the US election.

Stop using insecure methods of communication.
Stop using media without a discrete privacy policy.
Stop posting identifying information about yourself.

As we enter into a new government with a hypothetical Republican trifecta, we will likely see the trans community attacked by the state, and sites and services such as Reddit, Facebook, Discord, and TikTok are known to have a great deal of unencrypted information about their users, and have been known to cooperate with law enforcement.

Instead of Discord, try Matrix. Here is a large trans chat on Matrix:

https://matrix.to/#/#tracha:chapo.chat

Instead of Reddit, try Lemmy. Here are some transgender groups on Lemmy:

hexbear.net/c/traa (shortlink, redirect link on page)
lemmy.ml/c/transgender
lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/transgender

Instead of Facebook or Instagram, try Pixelfed:

pixelfed.org

Instead of Twitter, try Mastodon. Here are some trans positive places on Mastodon:

lgbtqia.space
toots.matapocos.dog

Many resources for more secure alternative apps can be found on privacyguides.org

We can continue this conversation in DMs if you wish but your ‘concerns’ are not welcome here and contribute to an atmosphere of hostility towards trans communities on the fediverse.

Are you cis? And yes, they are safe and have done more things for trans people than you will ever do, and this concern trolling is ridiculous.

Are you yet another cis person coming into trans spaces to fearmonger about other trans spaces and why certain trans people are ‘the good ones’? Just wondering, because that would definitely be transphobia.

Rich of you fuckers to talk about brigading when you’re deliberately sending other admins into this thread, likely from an admin chat. You don’t even have pronouns displayed anywhere, which is the bare minimum for supporting trans people online and normalizing showing pronouns.

Its a good point, tbh. Maybe should have included it too but I scrambled this together when a couple people asked me for stuff

Some servers don’t do this, Hexbear for example auto rehosts images to hexbear or removes external images.

Its a trans group chat, its for trans people. Public facing communities like this one are fine to converse respectfully in. If you do know trans people, be sure to spread the image around.

Communication is the first step in providing assistance to people

It absolutely does matter, sharing browser fingerprint and ip to a large corporation is dangerous.

Signal unfortunately has a big barrier to entry (cell phone), many people that cannot afford that or not allowed it by family will be left out. Also verification via phone number means the government knows you’re using it for sure and they can try the big wrench method on you. If you do need to use it just download Molly.

These are all large trans spaces, and Hexbear has a couple of impressive mutual aid groups thats helped many trans people.

These are all large trans spaces, and Hexbear has a couple of impressive mutual aid groups thats helped many trans people.

Hexbear has a really large trans community with a lot of mutual aid work. Are you trans?

Centralized platforms are much more dangerous, the various FOSS federated platforms are auditable and don’t contain inherent spyware. You can also use certain sites as a proxy, or start your own VPS+lemmy instance to use as a secure proxy for yourself. The restrictive nature of sites like reddit means they can ban you for taking basic security precautions, which they do regularly.

yep, pretty sure benjamin franklin said so

Yeah, I fully recommend it for 1 on 1 secure comms. Discord is much better replaced by Matrix, though

Whether you like them or not, they have very useful mutual aid groups that have funded a lot of HRT, rent, etc for trans people. One trans person got hit by a hurricane and needed assistance with rent for 2 months and it was paid in full. Without their help, that person would have been homeless.

Tor is a good choice, yes, but most normal people aren’t going to use that daily. It should absolutely be used for purchasing things like DIYhrt though.