I have felt so much safer here and comfortable. I think staying here has been best, both because based url, but also I love having a queer focused space. I feel much less exposed. I know some people might come in, but having a no transphobia policy feels so much better considering the amount of causal transphobia I used to see in some of my communities even if they were meant to be "Safe". I also love the discussions here and so far feels so much less cliquish and open
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I liken it to having a "home." I can go out and read whatever bigger community in whatever instance, but I can also stay home at Blåhaj if I don't have the emotional energy to handle raw uncut internet stranger today. Reddit, even in smaller communities, always had a risk of a wandering bigot.
Server perfomance is also a big plus. Even on some of the other, smaller, more IT driven instances I experienced way more lag then here
While browsing communities, I encountered a “gendercritical” one on a different instance. 🤮 (not lemmy.world) BUT, I took time to contact one of that instance’s admins about it since they had a non-discrimination rule, and they decided to close it down after educating themselves about it. So that’s something nice that would never happen on Reddit. 🙂 But even so, Blahaj Zone is still the place to be! 🏳️⚧️
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That does sound a bit more positive than my experience.
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I found Lemmy through a friend's recommendation after I deleted my 15yo Reddit account yesterday. I didn't understand about the decentralization until after I'd signed up on blahaj, but it seems chill so far. I'm very queer but queer spaces make me edgy since they tend to be overwhelmingly white and neoliberal, with all the microaggressions that entails. I'm giving it a shot though.
I love the community feel of joining an instance related to my identity. There’s something a little romantic to me about exploring the fediverse from my home base of a cute little pod of trans people. And also more practically, I trust in our ability to defederate from the hate. The idea of creating a friendly, welcoming place for queer folks and having the power to sanitize our own space sold me on lemmy/foss/federation instantly.
That's my favourite thing about the fediverse too.
I read the news that r/lemmy had been banned for spamming, and found it that way.
I mean who wouldn't join the one and only BLAHAJ ZONE i mean come on. Blahaj... Atleast for me that was all the reason to join.
I found Lemmy in a comment thread wishing for reddit alternatives.
I worry that the decentralized nature of the fediverse will require some thick skin for a time. I have seen the sentiment expressed that we don't want too many federations(edit: defederations) when the community is still so small.
If the community grows, I imagine we will see options for safe spaces, but there will need to be constant vigilance, because the change of a mod or a mod's beliefs can change what content is allowed.
Still, it's early enough for me to have hope.
I got lucky. I was bored and reading through the instance timeline on my mastodon server (tech.lgbt) and someone metioned this place. I owe them!
I stopped using reddit when the blackout started. Only pop on rarely to see updates on the situation. Saw a post talking about alternative trans communities and found my way here!
Well, Mastodon is just older and more matured compared to lemmy. The biggest Mastodon instance run by the main Mastodon Dev Eugen Rochko features an elephant holding up a trans flag. I may be wrong about this but the Lemmy devs seem to be leaning heavily into authoritarian communism. So left-wing fascists. Not a big fan personally. Anyways, I moved over with some of our very active german community on reddit. I think feddit is one of the bigger instances available :)
I've run across a few comments on other instances that wouldn't've been out of place in terf island's sub on reddit.
As a GNC person, I find it a lot less toxic. Maybe it's because the instances I'm registered on have big blacklists, but I'm too new to know :⁾
i wish pronouns options were default, i think hexbear does it better. still new to this. tbh this place seems way better with 196 blocked
It will be interesting when Hexbear rejoins the threadiverse. If only they could bring pronoun selection with them
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Still figuring out how to block 196 lmao
If you haven't found it yet, you can go to your settings and then find the blocks tab at the top of that page.
I havent seen anything bad yet on anything ive browsed buttt the communities are still young and theres a lot of hateful and dumb people out there! I feel like so far hateful stuff has less space to snowball up on outside of reddit. The troll bots havent started trolling yet either though but i remain wholely positive!
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
A little bit lacking in content but that's all of my interests right now except the reddit problem in general
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