Do NOT Panic!

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We have not been silenced yet, but there is a sinking feeling that it is happening.

I'm still getting the hang of this potato option. However it is something for now.

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[–]Fleursdumal 36 insightful - 9 fun36 insightful - 8 fun37 insightful - 9 fun -  (0 children)

Glad you were able to snag the best sub name 😸

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    [–][deleted] 36 insightful - 6 fun36 insightful - 5 fun37 insightful - 6 fun -  (5 children)

    Yep. None of this true, actual, or anything else. Just Lesbian.

    [–]LesbianSeparatist 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Love it. Appreciate all the work you do.

    [–]Oreodaphne 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    Say what? Not even any pics of puffy-lipped straight women dry rubbing each other with their three inch long acrylic nails?? whatever will the world do lol

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

    thank god I got tired of all that. At least we have that going for us currently.

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

    That's because there is no porn on saidit

    [–]QuilldeVil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    AMAAAAAZING!!! This makes me so SO happy! A bit of joy in a glum day.

    [–]Liz-B-Anne 26 insightful - 7 fun26 insightful - 6 fun27 insightful - 7 fun -  (2 children)

    THANKS for setting this up. (I'm Ann_Fetamine over on Deadit...I refuse to utter its shitty name since it's dead to me now. Petty? Yep. But so is banhammering 2000+ subs for political reasons to look good for your corporate overlords). Only ever used that site for its format which is much preferable to email, most blogs or outdated message boards. But this one looks a lot like it so I like this option.

    For any lurkers who are curious: I'm a Kinsey 6 lesbian, trans-exclusionary in both sexual attraction AND in my brand of feminism, gold star, femme, leftist (not liberal), agnostic religiously...what else? Oh yeah: ANTI-CENSORSHIP.

    [–]MsHurricane 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    Same my friend. Same.

    [–][deleted] 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

    The sub has not been banned! We made it private and are letting you guys in a little at a time. Thank you for your patience. Its been a looong day!

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

    So what happens when you privatize the sub? I’m not playing dumb I’m really not familiar with this concept?

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

    Ah, that's great news! I just finished work and the one Lesbian sub I was active on is gone.

    [–]lxit09 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    This is amazing news!

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

    Still blows my mind that Reddit would be so against women who prefer other women having their own sub.

    Oh, no, we're only good for titillating men. I forgot.

    [–]funk_transcender 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Which mods can I message to get added back? I was an active user and it was the only lesbian sub I posted on :(.

    [–]ZeWombat 15 insightful - 5 fun15 insightful - 4 fun16 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

    Look! It's the lesbians. Wait - Are you the Actual Lesbians? True Blue Lesbians? Imitation Lesbians?
    Or maybe you are what we've meant by the word 'Lesbian' for the last how many decades?

    I'm glad I found you all (and the new GC sub).

    [–]al-Amira 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    I'm still getting the hang of this potato option.

    I'd rather have a potato option than a Stasi site. The AHS subreddit is literally encouraging members, in some of their threads, to stalk "unwanted" subreddits and/or their mods/members on other platforms like twitter.

    [–]MsHurricane 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    This is incredible. Or unbelievable. I honestly have no idea what to say or think. I’m shocked. Not surprised but rather baffled. Wow. I hope the rest of the gang catches up. Thank you so much for this Max. The irony that the group was starting to feel like our own online lesbian bar.

    [–]oatmealhockey 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    What kind of clown world are we living in. But I guess we shouldn't be shocked. Seems obvious that Reddit is run by tras. They surely saw how GC spaces were getting more and more support and they got big mad lol.

    [–][deleted] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Yeah they definitely got scared and reacted like a yapping chihuahua and then gloated about the loss when their yapping got us taken down

    [–]k_rivvers 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I only lurked TL and GC but those were the only places on the internet where I felt like I belonged as a lesbian. Hope more folks can find this place

    [–]Cotton 12 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

    Well done Max!!

    [–]Urzsiah 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

    I literally joined True Lesbians earlier today! I was so excited to find a community of wlw that I didn't have to censor myself around. I was hoping to invite people over to my Animal Crossing island because it's a shooting star night 😒

    [–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Welcome to the sub! I’m sorry under these circumstances there was strain, but unlike the rest of reddit, we welcome you!

    [–]lxit09 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I'm devastated we got banned! I finally found a group of people I could really relate to and felt comfortable with and they ban us because we're women who love women. I hope we all get into the discord!

    [–]InattentiveGiraffe 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Happy to join :)

    [–]GatorNeighbors 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    Was on TL, went to look at another sub, came back and it was private.

    I don't post or comment enough for the mods to know to invite me, but luckily I bookmarked this site first!
    Hurrah! Hope we can have a good safe forum here.

    [–]catsuneko 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    You can still get invited, you just need to message the mods.

    [–]Imscared 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    How can I message them please ?

    [–]lizlingus 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Thanks for this! I was mostly a lurker and devasted when I saw GC was banned today. I saw someone post on Facebook that TD has been banned and immediately raced over to Reddit to confirm what I already knew.

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

    :\ All the subs I was lurking on are now private, what a bummer ! I already miss the PinkPillFeminism sub...

    [–]chronic_chad-is-back 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Chronic_chadmeister here! I'm really hoping us refugees flooding Saidit will help generate revenue so it becomes more user-friendly 😮 Seriously pissed this is how we've been treated by people who are considered "progressive"

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

    Hey y'all! I didn't write too many comments on TL but definitely was a longtime lurker. Thought we got banned, but whether we are or aren't, I'm glad we can re-find ourselves over on this platform. LOVE that we got this name and am so glad it's founded as a female-only space.

    [–]Voyger 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Thank you! <3

    [–]kittenwhiskers 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Thank you so much for setting this up! :)

    [–]nothankyou 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Fucked up what happened, but thank you for doing this and for acting so fast!

    [–]beereadit 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Did they ban our sub? I can't access it anymore and my message history related to it disappeared just like the GC.

    [–]teenwitch9 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    woo hoo! power lesbians activate 🏳️‍🌈✨

    [–]al-Amira 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    So... I'm probably losing my eye sight or something, but where do I find a subscribe option? I can't find it anywhere.

    [–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    To your right under the word Lesbians. I think it is highlighted in some pink type color.

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

    Thank you, as it turns out it was an issue with adblockers that hid the subscribe button. And thank you for setting this up.

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

    Thank you so much for doing this!

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

    awesome, thank you! Happy to be here :)

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

    :D :D :D

    [–]Jesus-Christ 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    How is this a potato option? It's probably the best alternative there is.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

    Why was my post censored?

    [–]Oreodaphne 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

    Well you yourself said you're not an exclusively homosexual woman, and yet you decided to call us the "lavender" community because you don't like the term "lesbian." Speaking for myself only, but this is not what I left reddit for.

    As someone who does not experience exclusively homosexual feeling, I don't feel it's my place to say what the word should be

    Maybe I will use "lavender" for now until I hear from the lavender community about a word they'd prefer.

    Lesbian. Lesbian is fine.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

    edited

    I don't personally feel right using "Lesbian" for the reasons I explained. I don't want to impose a word on the community but I need one to use in the meantime, and I know "lavender" is one that has history, so I think that's the best I've got available to me right now.

    I would love to hear an alternative if the community or an individual member would like to provide one they'd be happy to see used to refer to them.

    I also didn't post here expecting engagement with the content of the post, as I said I was hoping for an explanation of why my post was removed, since I didn't think there was anything wrong or rule-breaking about it.

    [–]ThisSiteIsUnusable 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    I was hoping for an explanation of why my post was removed, since I didn't think there was anything wrong or rule-breaking about it.

    No one gives a shit about your opinion on what lesbians call ourselves.

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

    Respectfully, while you might not, you cannot speak for any other woman or person besides yourself. And to re-iterate, I'm interested in what the community or individual women in it would like others, including me, to call them, since using the word "Lesbian" to describe people who are not actually Lesbians is not considered ethical by some.

    [–]ThisSiteIsUnusable 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    No, I promise. No one gives a shit. We're lesbians. If you feel the need to make a fool of yourself by using other terms you can make up your own.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    I would prefer to use a non-appropriative term the community and the women in it are happy with.

    [–]MC1R 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I can't believe this, first gender critical, which made me feel sane and now I wake up in the morning and true lesbians is no more. Literally the only lesbian subreddit I related to.

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

    Thanks for this! I sadly fear we'd be banned next.

    [–]c4ntdestroyer69 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    yay!

    [–]atruelesbian 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Do we have to do anything to be let back into the sub?(:

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

    Message the mods and ask for an invite.