So... tumblr again.
Feb. 22nd, 2024 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
general_radixA rough timeline of events (screencaps here):
* predstrogen, a trans woman, gets harassed by transphobes for months on end while the mods (many of whom are also transphobes) do nothing. The final straw: her entirely SFW transition timeline post gets reported.
* predstrogen vents about how the CEO, photomatt, should die in a "hammer car explosion"--something which any rational person can understand is too cartoonish to be an actionable threat. photomatt immediately permabans her and REPORTS HER TO THE FBI.
* Everyone calls out photomatt. He ends his insanely pissy response with an implied threat to delete the entire platform if the userbase doesn't back off.
Things are not going great.
Maybe this latest PR shitshow will encourage people to come back to DW, but I'm not counting on it. I'm at least on some of the places folks are fleeing to, like Pillowfort and Mastodon (dot-art in my case).
Currently contemplating what to do beyond cross-posting my amigurumi patterns (of which I have quite a few now).
* predstrogen, a trans woman, gets harassed by transphobes for months on end while the mods (many of whom are also transphobes) do nothing. The final straw: her entirely SFW transition timeline post gets reported.
* predstrogen vents about how the CEO, photomatt, should die in a "hammer car explosion"--something which any rational person can understand is too cartoonish to be an actionable threat. photomatt immediately permabans her and REPORTS HER TO THE FBI.
* Everyone calls out photomatt. He ends his insanely pissy response with an implied threat to delete the entire platform if the userbase doesn't back off.
Things are not going great.
Maybe this latest PR shitshow will encourage people to come back to DW, but I'm not counting on it. I'm at least on some of the places folks are fleeing to, like Pillowfort and Mastodon (dot-art in my case).
Currently contemplating what to do beyond cross-posting my amigurumi patterns (of which I have quite a few now).
