Thanks!
Yeah, the current thinking is just to have the one magazine for now unless people have good reasons why that won't work. Of course a lot depends on whether there are any active bugs federating between the two systems but I think right now things are copacetic.
It's a great point. This kind of legislative activism is frequently done in public on Twitter, Facebook, etc. as well so the risks are low in general but it's still something to make people aware of. It's a real contrast with anything that's direct action, where the fediverse is a non-starter.
What browser are you using? I have that issue in Firefox, but not in Chrome.
I like "fledditors"!
Agreed that there are plenty of problematic instances led by cis people that everybody federates with, including mastodon.social. For eightpoint, I don't know how many instances have and haven't refederated ... for that matter I don't even know how many defederated originally. Some instances see it the way you do: the abuser's gone, so as long as there's no continued problems, refederating makes sense. Those who are still defederated probably see it as a question of ongoing safety: the admin mistakenly trusted and gave power to an abuser, and then defended them, so they're likely to make similar mistakes in the future. It's a matter both of moderation philosophy and reactions to the specifics of this situation.
Welcome! A bit more on kbin and lemmy as reddit alternatives:
You can follow and post to Lemmy communities from kbin, upvote and downvote posts, and leave comments. The same the other way around. At least, you can when it's working, sometimes bugs get in the way!
You can also follow and post to either from Mastodon, and make comments, but you can't upvote or downvote from Mastodon.
In general Mastodon's a more Twitter-like experience, Lemmy is Reddit-like, and KBin merges the two -- it's got a "microblog" tab as well as the link aggregation.
Update: If you don't like Mastodon's interface, there's also CalcKey, which has a very different feel. I've got an account blahaj.zone, which is a very queer-friendly CalcKey instances, and there are others as well including calckey.lgbt.
toot.cat's a great site, I've had an account there since 2017, and it's very queer-friendly. I don't know whether the current admin has stated their gender so you might want to check on that.
With eightpoint, quite a few sites defederated late last year because of information that one of their moderators was actually somebody who is widely seen as a serial abuser, has a reputation for inflitrating and wrecking radical left spaces, and has in the past cooperated with the FBI ... but was using a different name on eightpoint (as they have multiple times in the past). Of course in a situation like this, everybody makes up their own minds about how believable the information is; for what it's worth, I found it quite convincing. Anyhow, eightpoint's admin initially strongly backed the moderator, and accusations of bad faith went in both directions. The moderator stepped down and left but it's hard to recover trust after a situation like that.
EDIT: @jenalyze@queer.af gave the abuser's name elsewhere in the thread.
Exciting times! And get well soon Kaity!
Great writeup, thanks much for taking the time to do it! I included a excerpt and link in the Get ready for trolls, hate speech, harassment, spam, porn, and disinformation section of Don't tell people "it's easy", and seven more things Kbin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon
It used to be a slang term people trying to sound hip would use, but that was many decades ago -- 1930s or 1950s I think.