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I will soon move this account to @Fiona@blahaj.zone.

The trigger for this decision is the decision of the mods on tech.lgbt to defederate from woem.men (tech.lgbt/@mods/11381732496512) for reasons that I find neither particularly convincing, nor particularly proportional… What I end up seeing here is a defederation from a major transfem instance and I really don't like that!

There is another big reason though: Over the time I’ve used it with my alt account, I really came to like Sharkey over Mastodon how it is configured here: I like being able to write LONG posts without a 1000 character limit. I like using emoji reactions. I like seeing them.

Feel free to already follow my new account, just in case something goes wrong with migration, though there aren’t a lot of posts on it yet.

I will give the mods a chance to reconsider their decision until they actually enact it, because there are still a lot of memories here, this was kinda where my transition began after all, but it looks like this is going to be farewell… 😢

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@Fiona@tech.lgbt @Fiona@blahaj.zone Reading the tech.lgbt mods' explanation was ... less than enlightening. If all they're going off of is hearsay (which is what it sounds like), that's deeply messed up.