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It's because tech bros hate feminists and their allies even more than they hate the corrupt tech industry.
Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves.
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#62In case the author doesn't know or willfully didn't post the reason Spinster is banned both on Threads and Mastadon; the server is a safe haven for TERFs who co-opt feminism as the cover for open seething transphobia disguised as criticism when communicating to a wider audience. Credit where it's due they're much smarter than your typical bigots and know how to hide it better to avoid bans. The fact that the OP is ou…
"TERF" is just the newest slur anti-feminists came up with to further the evil feminist trope. Anyone who looks into the conflict between feminism and the transgender movement can see that the so-called "TERFs" are the ones on the side of common sense, fairness, and universal anti-discrimination principles.
Re: Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves.
#63The author's baseless accusations wrapped in snark sounds incredibly petty. Given this is how the instance admin handles defederation, preemptive defederation of this network makes sense.
Honestly this blog is one of the most entitled posts I’ve seen in a while.
Re: Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves.
#64Threads will probably switch from a blacklist to a whitelist soon.
Re: Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves.
#65Just a heads up, the creator and maintainer, Alex Gleason, of Soapbox (or Rebased as it was called) is [anti-trans](https://web.archive.org/web/20220726042921/https://blog.alex...) and was previously the [head of engineering](https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4102527-top-exec-at-tr...) of the Trump-related social network (Truth Social)
He also [worked on Poast](https://www.dailydot.com/debug/truth-social-poast-donald-tru...), which was a social network for neo-nazis and a direct successor to Kiwi Farms.
Steer clear of it.
Re: Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves.
#66It's an odd omission that the "feminist server" mentioned is actually a gathering place for TERFs, after they were banned from places like Reddit. If your community is problematic enough to be kicked off of Reddit , I can imagine your users/content may not be desirable to Meta/Threads' brand, either.
Makes sense considering he is staunchly anti-trans https://web.archive.org/web/20220726042921/https://blog.alex...
He was also previously the head of engineering of the Trump-related social network Truth Social.
He also [worked on Poast](https://www.dailydot.com/debug/truth-social-poast-donald-tru...), which is a social network for neo-nazis and a direct successor to Kiwi Farms.
Steer clear of it.
Re: Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves.
#67It's an odd omission that the "feminist server" mentioned is actually a gathering place for TERFs, after they were banned from places like Reddit. If your community is problematic enough to be kicked off of Reddit , I can imagine your users/content may not be desirable to Meta/Threads' brand, either.
The banned subreddits are archived here, they weren't particularly problematic, but the 'TERF' viewpoints they expressed angered the people-of-gender in the Reddit admin team so much that they decided to ban the whole lot: https://www.itsafetish.org/archives/gendercritical
It's unfortunate because there was often a lot of interesting and thought-provoking discussion there that hasn't quite been replicated on its successor, Ovarit.