@rra I don't think I've seen a single crowdsourced blocklist that doesn't have at least one trans woman on it put there for no clear reason purely to ostracize her.

Starter packs might seem like a more positive idea on the surface, but it is also a form of forced hypervisibility and that's already an issue that queer people have to deal with a lot.

It might sound like a bit of a stretch, but putting people in starter packs without their consent reminds me a bit of this habit in publishing and bookselling of putting women and queer people of all genders in the "Young Adult" category regardless of if it's actually the age-range they are writing for. It's putting an author in front of an audience of young people, making them responsible for guiding them at the cost of potentially watering down their expression to fit that category or judging them for failing to do so.

Of course, the audience for a starting pack isn't just young people, but there's a similar dynamic of "here's a bunch of people who are just figuring things out, so you better be on your best behaviour and if you aren't we have an excuse to drive you out of the community for failing an audience you didn't ask for nor wanted."