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Jenny :bf_trans:

@TechConnectify The most baffling part of this thread is the supposition that it was easier on Twitter. The usual advice we got there when transphobes would dogpile someone was to "just block them," or to import someone's blocklist list of 300,000 known transphobic accounts. (That's not a hyperbolic number.)

For that matter, your fedi drama is that people don't like you being critical of Mastodon. My fedi drama is being called a racist for speaking out against a guy's implicit transmisogynist bias, or against an openly transmisogynist person making literal death threats against queer people. Seeing death threats made against friends. Seeing people I trust and care about getting fashjacketed or pedojacketed.

My problem is lateral violence and bad actors trying to drive a wedge between marginalized communities. Your problem is that everything you post has thirteen thousand pairs of eyeballs on it, and most of them are neurotypical cishets with no real problems. And I wish I had a solution to either of our problems, shit sucks. But I suspect that the answer to yours is "don't engage with your replies," no matter what platform you're on, and the only reason Twitter worked for you is that it suppressed most of your replies, good or bad.

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Technology Connections

@SymTrkl Honestly, should it be baffling?

We are different people who did different things on Twitter. I know Twitter was much more of a headache (or even legit life-threatening) for people not-like-me.

I don't hold it up as a gold standard or anything - I'm just trying to get folks to understand that there were things there that might be worth looking at.

Technology Connections

@SymTrkl Also, FWIW, I joined Twitter pretty late and the quality filter was turned on by default.

I've noticed a lot of folks who have no idea what I mean by it or find it utterly impossible that my experience on Twitter might have been more peaceful than here.

I joined in 2018. From what I've heard, if you were there prior to 2016-17 the quality filter was opt-in. So you might not have experienced it.

But depending on how you used Twitter, it may still not have mattered.

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