What was your old username? Would be helpful to look you up in the modlogs

EDIT: Actual response from Ada:

You’re talking about an ideal, a theoretical idea of what politics is.

Abigail is talking about her ability to use social media without being drowned out by transphobia and other awful events.

It’s not 100% achievable, but we can work towards the experience we want. Abigail has made her preferences clear, and this space exists specifically for that reason. There will be no “what aboutism” or “just asking questions” style of transphobia. Anything like that gets banned/blocked immediately. Shitty stuff happens, everyone in this discussion is aware of it. We do our best to make sure those conversations are opt in instead of opt out though.

Everything is influenced by politics, but not every discussion is about those politics. So no, in this space, not everything is political, except in an abstract sense.

If you’re looking for a different experience to that, you may struggle with the moderation policies of this instance.

Because I have moderated communities that live and die by the quality of their discussion and I understand that once you slip too far, you will not come back. Rabid circlejerky instances that promote dogpiling do not facilitate discussion and as a whole are bad for the health of the threadiverse. If people can't have a reasonable discussion here they will simply leave. That does not mean that I think hexbear should not exist, but they should probably be contained to their own corner of the broader threadiverse.

Not to mention there are potentially serious legal consequences for even hosting such content accidentally.

If you look here you will see that there was discussion over there about it https://lemmynsfw.com/comment/682757

HIV stigma has a huge role to play in the history of the phenomena. See AIDS SPECTER FOR WOMEN: THE BISEXUAL MAN

Just switched from Mastodon. The difference in features is insane.

EDIT: I will say I do appreciate the minimalist vibe that mastodon is going for, but I found myself wanting more

This would be amazing. Huge opportunity here but of course some of the highest moderation requirements of any community. Near the levels required for something like r/ask_historians

Note that what they're really interested in here is a fundamental change in how extras work. They want to turn it from an industry that hires early/struggling actors and turns it into the sort of thing that a college student can get one-time emergency money from. Akin to selling blood or eggs.

Let's not forget they absolutely Embrace-Extended-Extinguished their way to their position in VR

There's absolutely no reason it has to or should.

One thing that hasn't been mentioned here is that at a large scale this probably has significant impacts on weather patterns.

Important not to conflate your servers downtime with network downtime.