Note the bit where I said "space I use".
Right, but it's reactive and on a per user basis.
No, what leads to those attacks is politicians creating and stoking culture wars, and a media feeding in to that war because it makes them money.
The attacks won't magically stop if trans people just make themselves more open to being attacked. All that will happen is more of us will get hurt or die.
But echo chambers are dangerous
Not as dangerous as the hate trans people face every single day from the government, from media and from society at large.
People need a space where they can let their guard down. Creating that space is my goal.
The sad truth is, no space ever lets us completely let our guard down, but we get as close as we can.
unless you can guarantee a safe space in every aspect of life which is very difficult.
Communities trying to make spaces as safe as possible isn't some slippery slope. This is either disingenuous or ignorant of the reality we face as trans folk.
There are no truly safe spaces for us. Even our safe spaces aren't completely safe, because bad faith folk do their best to make it that way. Yet even so, many of us benefit from spaces that are actively inclusive, and remove bigots. Appeals to slippery slopes, or implications that we simply don't understand how looking after our own needs is somehow bad don't change our lived reality
I don't give a crap about "echo chambers". I give a crap about creating a safe environment for a group of folk that are actively under attack.
And that means getting rid of the bigots, not just hiding them
They're not on my instances or any instance I federate with.
What they call moderation is just muting posts so that you don't see them. No thanks. I don't want bigots hidden in a space I use, I want them absent.
TIL, Google bought Fitbit
Export/Import can be found in your profile settings
Right? I don't care what their intentions are, if they continue to house hate groups, their "intentions" count for exactly nothing
I've been building and developing communities, queer and otherwise for decades. I'm also trans, and live it first hand.
The per user approach puts a cost on each and every user, and that cost can sometimes be too much for vulnerable folk dealing with harassment. Blocking the bigot with a throw away account after being exposed to the bigotry is pointless, because the account was going to be abandoned anyway, and you've already been exposed to the raw hate.
It makes it impossible to just have fun and enjoy your social media experience when you're always waiting for the next bigot to drop it.
Instance level blocking resolves a lot of that.
Your theory of what will work just doesn't cut it for many vulnerable folk, and it's not going to start cutting it just because you want to debate the topic.