If you’re reading this I’d recommend against joining the ml or hexbear chat groups
Please join the actual Blahaj Matrix group instead as it is moderated by Ada
Blahaj Sidebar:
We have a public matrix channel for all Blahaj users at #blahaj:chat.blahaj.zone
If you’re looking for the support channel, rather than the general chat channel, you can find it at #blahaj-support:chat.blahaj.zone
Whether you like them or not, they have very useful mutual aid groups that have funded a lot of HRT, rent, etc for trans people. One trans person got hit by a hurricane and needed assistance with rent for 2 months and it was paid in full. Without their help, that person would have been homeless.
These are all large trans spaces, and Hexbear has a couple of impressive mutual aid groups thats helped many trans people.
Why not share c/trans over c/transgender? It’s way more active.
I mean this is great except for hexbear and .ml, wtf lol
When I first checked Lemmy this morning, I quickly found three threads from trans communities full of people afraid for their freedoms and even their lives because of the results of the eletion, and another that was a circlejerk about how the election didn’t actually matter. That’s pretty much it in a nutshell.
edit: To clarify, the dismissive circlejerk was on lemmygrad. I actually think lemmy.ml isn’t bad, just a mixed bag sometimes. Lemmygrad.ml is significantly worse, and Hexbear is worst of all. Don’t go there for anything but vibes-based politics that will sacrifice any ideal and any person if it means they can be smug (as smug as the worst liberal) on the internet.
I appreciate the intent of this message, but how sure are you that federated social media like Lemmy is really any safer than Reddit? Not much on here is encrypted, to my knowledge, and instance admins need to respond to subpoenas just like anybody else… In the event of hostile government action, you’re much better off communicating on E2EE platforms, and unfortunately, posting on public social media platforms is a risk.
You can mitigate much of that risk with a burner email and VPN, but you can do that on other platforms too.
Centralized platforms are much more dangerous, the various FOSS federated platforms are auditable and don’t contain inherent spyware. You can also use certain sites as a proxy, or start your own VPS+lemmy instance to use as a secure proxy for yourself. The restrictive nature of sites like reddit means they can ban you for taking basic security precautions, which they do regularly.
Relatedly, lie frequently and believably on the internet. Bots and potential doxxers don’t deserve the truth and others will benefit from your efforts in poisoning the well.
Aye.
Lemmy itself is inherently public.
People should be careful what they post anywhere online, including here.
Don’t doxx yourself peopleAlso rotate accounts regularly, using different information in each one.
