maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

I joined the Fediverse in 2018, but only became highly active in 2023.
The state of the transgender community was some terminally diseased bullshit: you could disrupt federation by throwing the name of any trans girl you dislike to #Fediblock with nothing more than accusations of social adjacency to the wrong people. Destroy hundreds of connections over trumped-up charges. Many of my dear friends are no longer on the network because of this.

I found the network split into two hermetic clusters i like to call Tech Mastodon and Queer Fedi. The first is barely aware of the second, eager to gentrify it, and to speak over us.

I have written about these topics at length, and taken action about them.

I wrote an article that focuses on a nonprofit named #IFTAS, due to their penchant for enabling abuse against us - this is a very long article, and the next links are more summarized:
https://aria.dog/barks/ethics-in-transgenderism/

Once I learned the #FediForum virtual conference was co-organized by a transphobe, me and friends dug up all the receipts in time, before they were concealed. I delivered an uninvited counter-talk, which is a good summary of our dysfunctional social dynamics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy5O2LjeuDY

You might prefer to read this transcript: https://aria.dog/barks/mastodon-trust-and-safety-at-the-terf-conference/

The transcript also contains a section about death threats I received about this video, which US nonprofit companies i criticized multiple times, #Nivenly and #IFTAS, decided not to take action about, despite platforming the person who made those threats. IFTAS, in particular, had a previous history of transphobic death threats from its staff, and tried to conceal the evidence. Meanwhile, Nivenly used the name of a dead trans woman to deflect accountability, then said the death threats didn’t happen.

So long as death threats are in play, i have no inclination to be civil: my community’s penchant for civility is the reason we are easy to speak over.

Do not follow me to keep up with those topics, try @fedilore instead. Me, i just pop out of random wells to chastise you, without warning, and will try to keep my activity mostly away from this account.

BTW: Queers always keep receipts, and we’ll be gay much longer than gentrifiers will be solvent.

i just think it's crazy that to have a good experience on linux, you're not really meant to change or customize anything. the whole point of using linux is to give you control over your computer, right? those malevolent bozos in redmond and cupertino can't mess with your system on a regular basis. no, on linux, it's a distributed group of thousands of benevolent bozos who are freely volunteering their labor to mess with your system on a regular basis

I am so frustrated with these Nivenly people.

A week or so ago (in defending FediForum), a Nivenly rep told me that the reason Ro's paper was still up and they hadn't said anything is because saying something or taking the paper down would be unprofessional.

Now Nivenly *is* making a statement about Ro. A statement that defends Ro, and plays cover for his death threats targeting a trans woman.

https://github.com/nivenly/community/issues/8#issuecomment-2787540748