alright one more take before i shut the fuck up. i wholly believe the coming weeks is going to be the make it or break it period of cohost and it's staff--and it all depends on how they're going to handle the transmisogyny problem seeding itself here that was directly brought from transandrophobia truthers, people who sit uncomfortably close to the TERF table who migrated from tumblr to here.
you may vocally support porn and allow porn to exist on this website, you get free reign to set your pronouns here, it's a small anti-corporate site that chooses to go against the grain of the enshittification of the internet, but do you allow trans women to exist comfortably on this site? are you going to protect trans women from the relentless pedojacketing, the entirely fabricated claims that we face in order for transmisogynists to justify our harassment, and the inherently hostile culture that trans women are forced to survive in that has been propagated by sites like tumblr?
a good solid chunk of us i'd reckon migrated from tumblr to here SO we could avoid the shadowbans we faced on tumblr, to avoid the outright brazen searchbanning of the "tgirl" tag like what tumblr did, to avoid getting permanently banned and our blogs getting annihilated forever for no reason like we had to do on tumblr, and to avoid the TERF harassment campaigns on tumblr.
there's really no good place left for us to go, and i like cohost even if it's clunky! and YES, there's absolutely going to have to be uncomfortable decisions to be made about dealing with the transmisogyny problem on this site--but if my years of moderation experience is anything to go off of when i ran basically Lord Of The Flies: Homestuck Discord Edition, the unspoken unfortunate truth about moderations is that you HAVE to make uncomfortable decisions. it isn't easy, but you have to take the issue out at it's source before it starts to fester.
and i'd hate to see cohost's staff annihilate their goodwill much in the same way that tumblr's staff did. as i've said. as i've always said. when trans women are ringing a five-alarm fire? you listen to them. you help them. you don't let them burn, you don't giggle to yourself and throw napalm into that fire. you help them. you uplift them. you give them a space where they can just. exist. in peace
