I abandoned Reddit over the weekend in advance of the blackout. As a trans woman, I tended to keep myself to myself in some very subject specific subreddits and avoided anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment for the most part (although certainly not homophobic language). Not ideal but it was manageable.
I was wondering how everybody in the same boat as me has found Lemmy? I had relatively high hopes given my positive experiences with the Fedivers in the past on Mastodon instances. Most there had pretty progressive stances even if they were not specifically LGBTQ+ focused.
Anyway, I lasted two days on lemmy.world. I wanted to be positive and explore and engage widely but there was zero action taken on slurs and transphobic concern trolling comments. Then the parental concern posts from other instances started popping into the All / Active feed, and I figured there was little chance of seeing any instance defederations happening. I could only see one defederation listed total.
I suppose I could have stuck it out for longer. The trouble is I have seen all of this before many times over. So here I am on lemmy.blahaj.zone instead. 💚
Weirdly I found Lemmy (as in this instance) through the Blahaj.zone Clackey... which I found by googling "Blahaj statistics". I haven't interacted with the main Lemmy instance. Enjoying the vibes here :)
I'm so curious what Blåhaj statistics you were looking for!
I wanted to make an infographic for my graphic design portfolio about Blahaj, so I wanted to find some sort of statistics to use? Not really sure what I thought I would find. Maybe how many are sold in a year or something?? Never did make that infographic lol
Damn I would have loved to see that lol. Then again yeah hard to find info. Would be interesting to run surveys since seems like next best way. Like how many queer people know about blahaj and how many have one, and so forth