Fair enough, if that’s what people want to do. But personally I fail to see what’s different from the last time we tried federating with them, which left a bad taste in my mouth that lingers to this day. Is it still full of rabid anti-communists? Yes. Is that one shitty mod who posted Carcosa’s DMs still active? Yes. Is the head admin still a weak-kneed lib unwilling to take any action against those things? Also yes

gonna be a no from me too

Being able to block blahaj users from some comms will do very little when the actual issue is chasers. When we refed, we will inevitably run into them on the open comms, which means that in the long run we will get exposed to chaser behavior. Yes, they’ll get blocked after being gross and horny creeps, but i’d rather prevent the risk of that kind of interactions in the first place.

There’s also the question what we gain from refedding with an aggressively anticommunist and pro-imperialist instance just because they have some trans people on there. How many are we even talking? Do we have numbers on that, are they doing polls like we do? Back during the drama that led to defederation, the threads discussing open transphobia on the instance where full of painfully clueless cissies, with barely any trans users speaking out even though the issue directly affected them. That may not be a representative picture, but still, it was a very different picture from what you saw on here even back before the pronoun tag purges. I understand that you want to reach out to the kind of trans person who is so desperate for validation that they’ll put up with Vaush fans fetishizing them, i get there’s a lot of trans people who could do well with a better community that allows them to grow and thrive instead of assimilating, but i wonder if there’s that many trans folks on there in the first place.

That sounds like a cool idea