Maybe you know me, maybe you don't. I've been on here (and on the sub) for more than two years. I saw the quarantine. I saw the ban. I saw Bernie getting ratfucked. I saw the rise of covid. I saw Tara Reade. I saw the megathreads. I saw the support. I was radicalised here. And now it's all going away.

I'm deleting the site from my password manager to ensure that I can't log in again. Shame, it was a killer username, but this really is the end.

Why am I leaving? Hmm. Gosh. I wonder. Use intuition, deduction, and common sense based on recent events and what you know.

matrix is @cadence:cadence.moe if you want to talk. don't feel obliged to.

s

https://hexbear.net/post/71072
https://hexbear.net/post/71214
https://hexbear.net/u/trans
https://hexbear.net/post/68911
https://hexbear.net/post/68604
https://hexbear.net/post/70921
https://hexbear.net/post/71072/comment/746474
https://hexbear.net/post/71214/comment/746682
https://hexbear.net/post/64109 - the fucking vote ratio

oh? you really need the reason spelled out for you? fucking cissies. here you go

It never ends, till you end it. See you next time.

  • spectre [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    My feeling is that the only way that chapo.chat will see any semblance of a trans userbase again is after federation is implemented (and I have a feeling that our trans comrades aren't exactly yearning for the prospect of hanging out here again, so it might not happen)

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Take a look at the vote ratio on this extremely uncontroversial post on !transenby_liberation@hexbear.net. How the fuck are there 35 people downvoting that?

        Stuff like this is what trans comrades are pointing to, and you're right that it's easy to miss if you're mostly hanging out on the front page. But from the perspective of someone who makes a post like that and gets a fuckload of downvotes, and then sees that happen to more of their posts, and to other trans people's posts... there's a clear pattern.

          • spectre [he/him]
            ·
            4 years ago

            I'm cis, so I don't want to speak too far out of turn or anything, but I find this post incredibly transphobic. The question I keep asking (internally) is whether it's an indication of stupidpol wrecker pricks, or an indication of latent transphobia (which largely results from the now apparent but usually quiet overlap between genuine chapo and stupidpol users)