foxglove (she/her)

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Cake day: May 14th, 2025

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  • I support moving to Blahaj as well ✅

    Pros:

    • only upvotes (no more harassment through downvotes)
    • Ada has already banned lots of bad actors from the instance, so moderation will be easier
    • Blahaj’s community and instance is already women friendly

    Cons:

    • there is probably some work to move another instance (I’m not sure what that would take - or if we would just shutter the lazysoci.al community and start a new one on Blahaj?)
    • Ada’s rules can be pretty strict, which means we might lose some control over moderation decisions and discretion; you could view this as a pro or con, part of the reason Blahaj is so welcoming and such a good option is because of Ada’s strictness - I only bring it up because of the 196 drama that happened recently where the mods of that community felt they didn’t align fully with Ada’s approach - so that’s just something to get clear on, what are the expectations, and are we comfortable with those expectations
    • Blahaj defederates from some instances and likewise some instances have defederated from Blahaj, so that might impact our users a little bit (again, this could be a pro depending on how you feel about the instances that are defederated from one another; I suspect Hexbear users who like this community would be upset if we moved to Blahaj, because Hexbear defederated from Blahaj).


  • honestly, anytime someone is wearing a cross or mentions they are Christian or religious, I assume they are unsafe and likely have some kind of bigoted views. To be fair, I think most people are bigoted to some extent, we can hardly escape the acculturation that comes from growing up and living in a society that has heteronormativity baked into it.

    I know for sure that not all Christians or religious folks are anti-LGBT+, but where I live it’s fairly predictive that if someone is religious they’re also more likely to be conservative and have reactionary views on topics like science (e.g. more likely to be creationists, anti-vaxxers, etc.), gay rights, trans rights, etc.