Lenins_Cat_Reincarnated [he/him]

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  • I was referring to the last time we had a discussion on hexbear about a possible refederation with blahaj which was a few months ago. The drama around the defederation wasn’t really relevant for that discussion as it was a long time ago. Blahaj’s admin is open to federation with hexbear because we have a huge trans community and it would be nice to connect them with the community in blahaj, but due to the issues I mentioned it’s not really in the best interest of our trans community to federate.

    Chasers are people who fetishise trans people. Trans spaces often attract people who won’t stop talking about our body parts which gets very uncomfortable.


  • Hexbear has very tight moderation to make sure it’s a comfortable place for minorities and people who don’t like interacting with racism, misogyny, transphobia etc. I browse blahaj.zone occasionally and its moderation is just not good. The trans communities attract chasers which makes me not want to post there, and in 196 I regularly come across posts that are misogynistic or transphobic and have been up for days. I always report them and they often (not always) get deleted after like a day, which in my opinion is too late because the harm has been done (a 2 day old post should have been removed whenever a mod came across it).

    On hexbear I’ve not seen posts that were so blatantly misogynistic or transphobic, and posts get removed much faster. This is why many trans people in our community don’t want to federate with blahaj.







  • I think that for most people the best way to radicalisation is to find something that they care about. As fucked up as it seems, I don’t believe we can get everyone to care about the genocide and if we can, then it’s not the most efficient way to radicalisation. If your friend does not care about what’s happening in Palestine (it seems like he’s getting so much contradicting information from you and his father that it’s becoming too complicated for him to form an opinion) then it’s probably better to focus on something else.

    You say that he cares about abortion rights which is a great entrance point to talk about the self determination of people over their own bodies that is being infringed upon by transphobes and misogynists.

    He probably also cares about his work conditions that he likely has no say over, and the fact that his hard work is used to enrich others. Everyone should be aware that they deserve the fruits of their own labour, it’s something that most people will agree on if you talk to them long enough.