Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

I've long believed that the crucial advantage of the term "queer" over the acronyms is that is acknowledges that diversity is not something you can exhaustively enumerate. we must be always prepared to embrace diversity that we hadn't considered before. this is the most consistent inclusivity

Also, while I'm on the topic, this is what we do every day in Fedimins (the rooms in .art's Discord server that we use for admin communication and support). There are over 100 instances represented in there - not all talking at the same time obviously, a lot of folk only pop in when they need a vibe check on something, but there's usually at least 20 of us in there active on any given day, pinging each other on issues, asking for advice, giving support, whatever.

We talk.

This isn't just me. This is all of us on well moderated instances with admins/mod teams that serve their community and prioritize their community's safety.

There are two people in our fedimins chat who have been busy collecting receipts for some truly awful instances full of hate and graphically disturbing content over the past couple of days, and we can see them working on it in fedimins, but nobody outside of that space can see the work they're putting in

If you act like a shitheel on one instance and suddenly you're surprised when you sign up on another instance to block evade and get banned right away, it's because we talk.

Byron/Universeodon admin saying shit like 'they work in isolation' and 'there's no discussion between these admins' is BS.

We share receipts, we keep records and logs, and work together to support a safe community between our instances.

Hey white people

Once upon a time some Black people came to fedi and joined some instances. They got harassed, and a few of them went 'hey, let's make our own instance, where we can set our own boundaries!'

Surprise, they got harassed off there too

"Why don't Black people just make their own instance?" is REALLY FUCKING SHITTY for many reasons that you'll probably never have to contend with, but that's one of them.

https://ubiqueros.com/notes/97y03equhh

✅ i don't want to see or be seen by .social users

Have a guess who'd catch the most flack:

Me if we were to even *think* about defederating fosstodon for continuing to host an account like this despite it having been reported by a bunch of instances:

https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/110815813243559950

Or Fosstodon, for hosting them

Correct, it would be me

mh – mental health
ph – physical healh
pos (or +) – positive
neg (or -) – negative
~ (sometimes ?) – unsure if it’s positive or negative, or somewhere in-between
ment – mention
pol – politics
uspol/ilpol/ukpos/eupol etcetera – politics, but region specific, the first two letters are an indicator (uspol – united states politics, eupol – european politics, and so forth
oh – overheard
ooc – out of context
nsfw – not safe for work
tmi – too much information
sa – sexual assault
csa – child sexual abuse
sh – self harm
sui – suicide
sfw – safe for work
cw – content warning
cn – content note, haven’t seen this one personally, but used for context rather than warnings
alt – referring to alt-text, which are media descriptions for the visually or aurally impaired
ec – eye contact, usually an image of someone or something looking directly at the camera
what – commonly it’s used for “hotdogs are tacos” type deals, stuff that seems silly that’s meant for messing with people
??? – confusing or nonsensical
veg – usually vegan, sometimes vegetarian
exp – experience
qt – quote toot/tweet
rt – re(toot/tweet)
qn – quote note
rn – renote
qp – quote post
rp – oddly, usually roleplay, but it could be repost too
lb – last boost
ref – reference

– tone indicators –
/lh (or just lh) – lighthearted
/j (or just j) – joking
/s (or just s) – sarcasm
/srs (or just srs) – serious
/sx, /x (or just sx or x) – sexual
/nx, nsx (or just nsx or nx) – non-sexual/not sexual
/ly (or just ly) – lyrics
/r – romance
/gen (or just gen) – genuine

– queer community abbreviations –
enby/nb – a non-binary individual, someone who is neither boy nor girl
terf – trans exclusitory radical feminist, someone attempting to fight for women’s rights while only fighting for some of them
fart – fascist aligned radical transphobe, used for the same group as terf
transmed – someone who believes trans people can only be boy or girl, must medically transition, and must have dyshporia in order to be trans (i.e. a malevolent wilfull ignoramus)
lgbtqia+ – lesbian gay bisexual trans queer intersex asexual etc., used as a general term for the queer community
alphabet mafia – a slang term for the queer community making fun of the lgbtqia+ acronym
grsm – gender romantic and sexual minorities, a more inclusive umbrella acronym for the queer community
hrt – hormone replacement therapy, a medical process using supplements to artificially increase or decrease the hormone levels of an individual, resulting in gender affirming physical changes
ts – trans
saph/sapphic – in reference to the historical lesbian poet Sappho, who was a significant face of early lesbian communities, sometimes used in place of the term lesbian

Feel free to reply with more and I’ll edit them in
Link to this list on my website for longevity

CORRECTION: i have been asked by my source to publish a correction regarding two prominent examples on the list which turned out to be false positives

https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/meet-the-shitpoasters/#correction

osm: here's the exact coordinates of every bollard on this street

google maps: bob's discount curtains and used radioactive sources

I use openstreetmap most of the time these days so it's a weird experience looking at google maps, because instead of, like, detailed locations of pedestrian crossings, or exact layouts of bike paths, there's 20 places that want to sell you something

I saw a twitter tweet embed on a website, and it has the X logo in the corner, and my first thought was "oh, look, twitter knockoff"