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[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I've been squatting on some Reddit subs with the original creator of r/detrans. Unfortunately, he went offline completely, purged all his various profiles. The remaining r/detrans mods he entrusted went offline themselves, and/or aren't interested in fighting to hold the subs for their community.

Reddit will be banning "releasing sub names" over the next several weeks/months so other mods can remake them. The subs haven't been banned or removed from us yet, but I'm checking every single day to see what happens. It's only a matter of time until Fartbinn and other powermod alts take these over too.

I really respect the OG detrans creator, and want to support /detrans ... but it's not my cause, and there's nothing I can do if /detrans mods aren't willing to fight for themselves anymore.

I feel terrible and am really upset by the whole situation. I'll share more news as it happens.

[–]reluctant_commenter 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Do you think there's a risk of r/detrans being taken over by anti-detrans trans rights activists?

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Unfortunately if done intelligently it’s a lot more effective than a banning. That’s how you get hollowed out husks like r/AL, r/LGBT, and r/ainbow. All are shadows of their former selves, but anyone who is inclined to question any of it or know better has long since been banned or scared away. They now only exist to make the rest of Reddit think gay people still have spaces on Reddit. If they tried banning r/AGB, however, that is more likely to cause a stir that reaches beyond the rainbow curtain.

[–]reluctant_commenter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They now only exist to make the rest of Reddit think gay people still have spaces on Reddit.

God, what a sentence. That makes a lot of sense, and explicitly banning a sub is more likely to catch headlines as well, compared to "we banned a bunch of users who disagreed with us."

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Absolutely, they have to be extremely vigilant about it. They're constantly targeted, even to this day, that's likely a big part of them cycling through mods and updating rules the way they have. It's exhausting, and can really wear on the goodwill of even the most dedicated mods.

When r/detrans got banned for a few hours (part of the July 10th purge when we got banned too), Bardfinn tried to claim it through RedditRequest. I shared all about it here: https://saidit.net/s/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/5cb0/campaigns_to_get_subreddits_banned_for_hate_then/

[–]reluctant_commenter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wow.

A 46 year old man obsessively hating on two 20 year old young women like he does is rather creepy actually.

Completely agree with that other commenter.

Related-- I checked s/againsthatesubreddits out of curiosity and saw this post suggesting that people like Bardfinn who actively collect data about users and suggest them for banning/comment removal on the basis of their opinions may be violating UK law. Very interested to see how everything plays out.

Have to say, I'm so glad we're actually starting to see some change... even if it's slow. This time last year, I was feeling pretty hopeless about the whole thing. It makes me so sad to see the extent to which LGB people are censored off of social media.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, also ... if you don't know the history of how r/detrans started, check out their SaidIt sub: s/detrans

The whole story of the hostile take over of r/detransition is in the sidebar. You can see it on their Reddit sub too if you go to New Reddit, but I won't subject any of you to that god-awful interface.

[–]our_team_is_winning 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I myself didn't get banned, but I see @heke_nig has been suspended on twitter. He posts a lot of things about T fetish behavior.