comrades, the Protracted People’s War against the liberal hive and haven for bigoted chasers that is lemmy.blahaj.zone has succeeded! blahaj has fallen! or at least fallen off.

really tho, i just checked in on their site to see how its been since defederating. that was only 3 days ago btw! it feels like its been a week lol. their daily user count has fallen by over 1/6th since defed. and while this could be attributed to less traffic during the work week, the posting situation there is abysmal. in the past 24 hours, 78% of the posts came from c/196, making it difficult to tell that their instance is a dedicated queer space. and while they have gained ~30 users since defederation, we have gained over 200! its pretty much just 196 at this point.

while its sad to see a queer space fail, i suspect its for the best. i hope all the anti-capitalists there find their way here, as many already have. especially the trans folk there, its genuinely sad that they feel like they have to accept chasers in their space in order to have a community that accepts them. that is the difference between liberal tolerance and socialist liberation— tolerance allows for objectification and marginalization, while liberation demands dignity and equality. may all the blahaj gender diverse who oppose capitalism find their way to c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns!!!!

stuff like this are the best “dunks” the 196 reactionaries can manage:

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https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2042262

pathetic

this meme is weak and displays their ignorance. you cant have a conversation with ppl like the OP. they will just bombard you with thought-terminating cliches. gulag gulag! Uyghurs! hologramodor! no food! purges! NKVD KGB Stasi! free Tibet so they can have their wholesome slaves again! Taiwan is a legitimate state!

countless hexbears would be willing and even enthusiastic to have a good faith, respectful, nuanced discussion about these topics with them. but they dont want that. they want to roll in their own shit like a pig with massive balls. the good ones will find us, or other socialist spaces. but for such a small instance, there are too many scratched and soon-to-be scratched liberals for us to do any good with federation.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        more general purpose communities on reddit and twitter and facebook. the issue of course is those sites are ran by queerphobic ideologues/megacorps, so that flavors all interactions

        there arent really any large anticorporate lgbt spaces. there are some niche trans forums that are mostly about healthcare access (and usually only for transfems), thats probably the biggest stuff. our main competitor(?) i guess is raddle.me in regards to their /r/traa community. they have 4k subscribers and 2k submissions, which given our current rate of development on c/traa over 6 years (how long raddle traa has existed) we're talking 30k subs in a year and about 9,680 posts, assuming we keep our rate the same, which is unlikely but more likely here due to the fediverse.

          • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            best I could think of personally was like self-curated spaces on tumblr or twitter maybe

            There's also lots of trans discords out there. Out of all the corporate sites, it's the one where it's easiest to set up your own safe space, although what's considered safe varies a lot from server to server, so you'll have vastly different levels of hornyposting, liberalism, transmedicalism etc.

          • kristina [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            yeah the closest is raddle.me and theyre not nearly as active, also very sectarian, which is ridiculous. added some stats to the previous post

          • EpicKebabEater [he/him, it/its]
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            1 year ago

            most that are proper "communities" tend to be filled with classism and western chauvinism to the degree that I have a hard time considering them truly queer friendly

            I am so glad to see someone else mention this. Most LGBT servers I join have this problem but treat you like insane for mentioning it.

            Most proper spaces also seem to have problems with not forcing LGBT people into boxes funnily enough. r/traaa has always had an obsession with a specific type of trans woman and a very specific image of trans men that most people who don't want to present that way get a dismissive "valid", then get ignored forever. A lot of weird arguments about why neopronouns are bad, trans athletes are bad etc. are the cherry on top. Haven't looked at the subreddit in a year but doubt anything changed.