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Mod of r/Transgender_Surgeries has posted an edit to their post addressing Lemmy with questions and things to consider (www.reddit.com)

submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by bayesianbandit@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Cross posting this here for visibility as it's easy to not see the edit. They are adding thoughts and resources to the post as they evolve so maybe keep an eye out for future edits.

I think the questions they have are very reasonable & they have welcomed cis people to discuss on the post (but not elsewhere on the subreddit)

I'm new to Lemmy and doing what I can. Long time member of the subreddit. Maybe some of you all are better than me at discussing these topics with them?

Thank you all for your help so far 🫶

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (3 children)

I'm road tripping around New Zealand at the moment, so I can't reply in depth just yet, but I've been talking to @supakaity about the possibility of spinning up another lemmy instance that is allow list only. We could allow list blahaj.zone, and other safe instances, and host sensitive communities there. It would mean our users still had access to the fediverse at large, but that the sensitive communities were insulated from trolls and bigots.

I'll address the rest of the post in more detail later today when we're not on the road

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 11 points 21 hours ago

If this works out it could really demonstrate the strength of decentralized social media. Thank you so much for considering taking on this challenge, and good luck!

I really hope it will work. It sounds to me like it should.

[–] bayesianbandit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Okay that's rad. I'd been privately thinking of something similar to that myself but I'm new to the fediverse and didn't know whether it was possible. If it's like what I'm thinking you're suggesting that would solve a HUGE issue in our community for balancing visibility (to help others and give information) with privacy (to support each other and avoid bigots). Centralized social media/messaging platforms have never prioritized this need in their design so we are always switching between apps to fulfill either function.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

So, broadly, what I'm thinking is two instances. One is public facing, (ie blahaj). Any communities hosted there would be visible to and usable by anyone on the fediverse.

And then a private instance. It would only be visible to users on hand selected instances.

People generally wouldn't create user accounts on the private instance, and instead would access communities on those instances through user accounts hosted on the allow listed public instances. For super sensitive stuff, folks could host user accounts on the private instance, but those user accounts would not be able to access most fediverse content.

[–] bayesianbandit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 18 hours ago

Yes this was basically exactly what I was thinking! It's very reassuring to hear that could be possible in the real world and not just in my head :D

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

Enjoy your trip!