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I am not criticizing them, I'm just out of the loop.

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[–] fiat_lux@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People congregate where they feel safe. Sometimes that looks like the nerdy introverted kid living life on the internet when their immediate community doesn't understand them, and the roles they're expected to play don't work for them. Turns out a lot of nerdy introverted kids who felt misunderstood by their families were trans, which isn't too surprising.

What's interesting to me is that most trans-people in tech are AMAB, and I think that reflects computers being seen as an ok "masculine" hobby (in lieu of sports or cars, etc.) . I often wonder where all the AFAB transpeeps end up instead, I know they're somewhere!

[–] macallik@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a general selection bias in the fediverse, and the idea of decentralizing power is pretty communistic and also pretty beneficial to people who feel oppressed (transgenders).

Most new waves have a strong bias when you think about it. For example, crypto has a strong tilt towards Libertarianism and deregulation

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Strange. I thought decentralized power is anarchistic. Kind of opposite to historical communist regimes.

[–] HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Communism is defined as stateless. Karl Marx said that while a vanguard party may be a path to achieve communism, it's not communist until the state is dissolved. Until then, it's socialist.

[–] Ohthereyouare@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You'll find no shortage of irony in the Lemmygrad scene, I assure you.

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[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I can't speak for everyone or say my response is the definitive answer. But I would say it's because people actually feel safe discussing those topics. They don't necessarily have to worry about being silenced by a corporation or like they will be censored because of how the fediverse works.

[–] BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I blocked the blahaj (nothing against trans people. "Communities" based on sex/gender-stuff is just cringe) and lemmygrad (plus other tankie) instances. Now I barely see any of it.

[–] MaxMouseOCX@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same... Nothing against trans people, they can do them, but I have absolutely zero interest in reading about that sort of thing in much the same way I have zero interest in reading about stamp collection.

Ultimately, I joined Lemmy as a reddit refugee... If Lemmy turns out to be a place where I'm not interested in the majority after some time I'll just leave 🤷

[–] Widowmaker_Best_Girl@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been doing that too. Is there a way to block whole instances? Doing it by community is tedious.

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[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

alongside the whole tech stuff one major thing is that when you report hate speech in the fediverse it (usually) goes to moderators and admins who give a shit about their community rather than some automated system which may or may not do anything, resulting in a community that's more hostile towards people spouting hate speech (but muh freeze peach!! echo chamber!! bleh im leaving), which indirectly makes people affected by that speech feel more comfortable to speak up.

of course particularly the microblog/Mastodon-y side of the fediverse still has some issues to solve regarding racism (i am not the best person to go into detail on that one though), but transphobia in particular tends to be taken out pretty quickly, according to my own observations anyway.

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