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wish I had a cool queer groupchat at least online
Lemmygrad has a pretty big trans group chat iirc
genzedong dot ecks why zee
It's not that active and not that tight knit from experience
I mean if someone was interested in keeping a group chat running I'd be down with asking the admins to set it up on their matrix, but I'm busy with IRL stuff to mod that too
I'm active a lot on Matrix myself I wouldn't mind if other comrades would want that, would be awesome! Perhaps could set up bridges too
Wanna spearhead it? I could put the room in the sidebar
I have my own matrix server if needed, but I assume hexbear's would be a safer bet
edit: and sure
Aight I'll ask around later when I'm free
sure, keep me posted, tysm^^
That would be really cool, I've always thought it would be nice to have a matrix space 😁
yay!! too many trans communities are on discord ugh
A lot of them are bad plus we've been moving away from discord.
That's good, Discord is a horrible platform and other lists I can't find right now
I'm aware of their shady shit I'm a big privacy nerd lol but it has too many libs also or more unsavory servers
fellow privacy nerd yay, now question is do you use qubes? /j
I quit Discord in 2021 and haven't looked back and I'm glad, I see many people now have their whole social circle locked in it
I've dabbled with tails lol
Yeah I mostly just used it with my wife and don't have any friends.. I'm not on social media and well I've no family.. I mostly just use discord for keeping up with mods lol
But we've moved over to matrix
I've used XMPP for a long while before moving onto self hosted Matrix to have a wider reach with people
Nice ^^
Yeah trying to find decent spaces has been the issue and the clients are a little basic but glad for it.
Aside from Element (Try Element X on Android), I recommend Cinny. If you want CLI, go for iamb.chat which is updated, or gomuks.
I liked Conversations for XMPP more to be honest, lighter and generally better, oh well
Yeah there's a few but I wasn't sure which was the best lol do any allow you to use different instances in the one client?
FluffyChat allows you to use multiple accounts on different instances
Nice c:
I wish I still did just so I could say yes.
If more people joined we could increase engagement. There was a point when the trans room was more active than general.
Check Lex? Or Disboard for local trans discords? That's how I met all my trans friends I didn't meet through working my extremely gay job.
No local queer Discord servers, checked now (I don't use it because of privacy issues, anyways).
I'll check out Lex first time hearing about it ^^
Yeah Lex here is like 50% hookup ads, 40% people doing the latest Discourse, and the occasional cool group chat.
You can't just say extremely gay job you met trans friends at and not tell me what job it is.
I work homeless services. Even when I'm not working culturally-specific programs, a lot of my millennial/zoomer coworkers are some sorta queer. It might be a social work thing, it might just be that I'm in a big coastal city with a lot queer people in general.
It's good work and it's fun telling people what you do for a living - like 50% they'll fawn over you and treat you like a saint, 50% they'll just start telling you how much they hate homeless people. Also sometimes it's super traumatic, in pretty much the same ways that EMT work can be.
e: also sometimes people will ask how your day is so you tell them how your day was and you'll think it was a totally normal day with just a few difficult parts but then you look around and whoops, accidentally traumatized everyone again.
Oh! That sounds like very satisfying work. I'm sure it can be traumatic though
What the hell is wrong with this society.
Lotta very visible problems here caused by people having to survive on the streets without proper shelter or sanitation services. People see the mess caused by long-term camps, crime caused by desperation, sidewalks blocked by tents, and people lashing out due to trauma and mental health issues, and come out thinking "fuck those people" instead of "we need a new system that won't force these people into such fucked up circumstances."