After seeing someone have a post removed from mastodon.social for racism/sexism when it was from an Asian woman talking about exclusively reading books by non-white and/or non-male, it's clear that this isn't an instance that values disadvantaged groups, and so I'm looking to move server.
So while I may regret asking, what instance do you think I should switch to? I'm a bi Scottish trans woman who writes a lot as a freelance journalist and who works in tech, if any of that makes a difference.
There's journa.host for journalists and tech.lgbt as potential starting points.
Am also trans - it turns out it's actually slightly more complicated than that (as the person who was blocked herself admits) and the admin involved is trans himself.
Okay as a trans journalist on this instance I am seriously concerned and would like to see someone immediate transparency re. what is going on from the admin team. If this is not dealt with imminently I imagine this instance will be blocked by most trans-friendly instances incredibly quickly, and that is not good for anyone's journalism, let alone mine.
Yeah I am probably going to have to move again, purely from the fact that regardless of what actually happened, loads of lgbt+ instances are blocking the instance and that doesn't really work for me as a trans journo
I really hope so. I have told @info as much and said they need to post a proper apology, plan for modertation in future, and go round with a begging bowl asking instances to refederate them
Content warning: Re: my recent move from the journa.host instance
Okay as a trans journalist on this instance I am seriously concerned and would like to see someone immediate transparency re. what is going on from the admin team. If this is not dealt with imminently I imagine this instance will be blocked by most trans-friendly instances incredibly quickly, and that is not good for anyone's journalism, let alone mine.
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