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Mostly asking because it seems like my dash is about 50/50 split between cohost and bluesky rn, would kinda like to know what the actual numbers are. rb for sample size etc etc

#tumblr polls #i'd probably stop using social media until i see where most of the ppl in my fandoms are going

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what with the current Stuff happening, i figured i should remind everyone to download shinigami eyes here (for chrome, firefox, and firefox nightly on android) and to continue to flag transphobic and trans friendly pages!!! you can do that by right clicking on a link to the page you want to mark and selecting shinigami eyes -> mark as anti-trans/t-friendly . lets help keep the internet safe for our trans siblings!!! also it would be really fucking funny if we could get m*tt flagged as transphobic

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I call this piece free speech

#predstrogen

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LMAO i just spent like 10 minutes tryna figure out what the hell everyone was talking about with matt and cars and hammers only for it to be some of the most fragile white male elon musk bullshit ive ever seen and him trying so hard to cover it up just makes him look sadder honestly, fuck this hellsite, fuck matt mullenweg, trans rights

#predstrogen

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fuck you and fuck your stupid car

#predstrogen

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Made this in light of recent events

#predstrogen

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Oh, and this should be saved, too

#predstrogen

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I didn't know predstrogen or her blog but that doesn't matter to me and it shouldn't matter to you. if they came for her they will come for you. if you're not trans they will come for you when they're done with them.

hate doesn't start and end with one target, it morphs and amalgamates until no one is safe, and it lashes out a lot.

#predstrogen

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like. cards on the table: at first, i thought, hey, maybe the framing and recounting of the predstrogen situation is (understandably) biased because this seems really fucking weird, even for tumblr.

but, for real, it does just look like a series of repeated mass-reports drew staff attention to her and inevitably got her accounts flattened for entirely normal edge-case posting.

like, repeatedly, mass-reports happened, she'd appeal and get it reversed, and then it'd happen again, until finally it stuck. oh boy, did it stick! permanent lifetime ban.

the "death threats" that got her banned were cartoon-violence grumblings (responding to getting stung by bad-faith mass reporting) and the "harassment" seems to have just been pointing out specific user accounts that were needling her or outright harassing her. neither are against rules unless you're taking a bizarrely bad-faith reading of things.

and of course, all of this was her direct response to repeatedly being falsely reported and having to wade through the drawn-out, unresponsive appeals process while far worse content and accounts remained untouched, despite being reported.

also there was the whole "incredibly obvious and malicious rape/pedo-jacketing mass-anon disinfo campaign" run against her.

deeply uncomfortable that the CEO of tumblr took to posting about the mean anon threats he was getting about the situation, but didn't say a peep about the *genuinely malicious* threats and harassment predstrogen was getting. like. that's not worth a quick callout, lil buddy? you can't see why people are pissed?

anyhow. car hammers, or whatever.

#predstrogen

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y'know, back when I used Reddit, if you found some hateful content of any sort, it wasn't that hard to report it. You clicked the "Report" button, selected "Hateful Content" out of the wide variety of options available, and then clicked the "Submit" button. I did this pretty often, because some of the communities I was in attracted rather unsavory characters as a side effect.

Do you know what happened next? Next, I received an automated message that said basically "Hey, thanks for reporting This Content (link to reported content). We've received your report and will review it shortly." Usually, a day or two later, you'd receive another message in your inbox saying "Thanks again for reporting. We found this content in violation of our TOS and have removed it." Sure enough, if you followed the link back to whatever you reported, it would be gone.

It was that easy. No explaining yourself, no explaining yourself again but differently, no redirect to a new tab, you didn't even need to know the specifics of what did or didn't violate TOS. No matter what happened, they would write back and tell you what was going on. If the reported content didn't violate TOS, they would tell you.

When I hopped over here full-time, I continued that reporting habit, thinking it'd be largely the same experience. I have had complete and utter radio silence from @staff on every single report I've ever filed. Have I been making a difference? Is my voice being considered? Who knows! But it certainly hasn't felt like it so far.

At least now I know those reports were going straight into the garbage, rather than just having to wonder.

#predstrogen

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I found a post on the predstrogen hashtag sharing this Dropbox link with screenshots of the CEO's posts and I was going to reblog it, but when I went back to the post after looking at the link in my browser, it disappeared.

In any case, let's spread this link around, shall we?

#predstrogen

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@photomatt I made some discussion questions that might help you work through all this!

-Why did you disable reblogs on this post? Is it because of the “pile-ons”? Do you think trans people on tumblr have also experienced pile-ons? Have you done anything about this? Why or why not?

-What is the “toxicity and harassment” on tumblr? Is it the memes you received for two days? Are the death threats trans women have been receiving for days, months, years - is that also toxicity and harassment? Which do you think is worse? Why?

-When you say you may no longer invest in tumblr, is that similar to a child taking their ball and going home? Should a tech ceo have more emotional maturity than a toddler? Why or why not?

-Do you actually think you’re the victim here?

#predstrogen

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I'm gonna wade into the predstrogen discourse for a second and say it's kinda gross that the staff targets trans women for 'being indecent' or whatever but this ad crossed my dash this morning:

Them thighs might make me go awooga, but this pic is more risqué than anything pred got banned for. @staff you want to lose value in this company? Keep hating your target audience off the platform, I'm sure that'll solve the problem.

#predstrogen

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BECAUSE CARS COVERED IN HAMMERS EXPLODING KILLED MY GRANDMA

#predstrogen

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Hello matt, this is your lawyer. You need to get a ukulele

#predstrogen

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oh my god SHUT UP

#predstrogen

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Every time Murderbot does something like this I think "...You. You get it."

Like that scene where it's tempted to pick clothes that would cover its face but decides against it because that would just get it flagged for extra security checks just spoke to me.

being not great at lying on the spot but coming up with elaborate cover plans like wasting resources on food you can’t eat so you will have something you can flush down the toilet so anyone looking for irregularities in the metadata will have that much harder time spotting you oh what a mood

i think a lot of people who don’t have anxiety tend to picture people who do as doing a lot of tormented hand-wringing and laying awake at night and don’t get me wrong there is a lot of that but also there is a lot of proactivity—we know we can’t account for everything but we can’t not try to anyway

there’s no such thing as safe but you are constantly fudging the margins to try to get just a little bit safer.

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot