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Has he restated this recently? It seems the original comment was back in May, hopefully he just forgot.
Good point, I originally made this as an image because someone requested that. Here's the text
Important Online Safety PSA for American transgender people following the US election.
Stop using insecure methods of communication.
Stop using media without a discrete privacy policy.
Stop posting identifying information about yourself.
As we enter into a new government with a hypothetical Republican trifecta, we will likely see the trans community attacked by the state, and sites and services such as Reddit, Facebook, Discord, and TikTok are known to have a great deal of unencrypted information about their users, and have been known to cooperate with law enforcement.
Instead of Discord, try Matrix. Here is a large trans chat on Matrix:
https://matrix.to/#/#tracha:chapo.chat
Instead of Reddit, try Lemmy. Here are some transgender groups on Lemmy:
hexbear.net/c/traa (shortlink, redirect link on page)
lemmy.ml/c/transgender
lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/transgender
Instead of Facebook or Instagram, try Pixelfed:
pixelfed.org
Instead of Twitter, try Mastodon. Here are some trans positive places on Mastodon:
lgbtqia.space
toots.matapocos.dog
Many resources for more secure alternative apps can be found on privacyguides.org
We can continue this conversation in DMs if you wish but your 'concerns' are not welcome here and contribute to an atmosphere of hostility towards trans communities on the fediverse.
Are you cis? And yes, they are safe and have done more things for trans people than you will ever do, and this concern trolling is ridiculous.
Are you yet another cis person coming into trans spaces to fearmonger about other trans spaces and why certain trans people are 'the good ones'? Just wondering, because that would definitely be transphobia.
Rich of you fuckers to talk about brigading when you're deliberately sending other admins into this thread, likely from an admin chat. You don't even have pronouns displayed anywhere, which is the bare minimum for supporting trans people online and normalizing showing pronouns.
Its a good point, tbh. Maybe should have included it too but I scrambled this together when a couple people asked me for stuff
Some servers don't do this, Hexbear for example auto rehosts images to hexbear or removes external images.
Its a trans group chat, its for trans people. Public facing communities like this one are fine to converse respectfully in. If you do know trans people, be sure to spread the image around.
Communication is the first step in providing assistance to people
This guide will go over the basics of how to circumvent reddit's ban system in order to bring more transgender and leftist people to the fediverse (which will be much safer for them). This guide is largely useful for other websites too, though the fediverse is more resilient to these methods due to the manual entry process on most sites.
Things you'll need to download:
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Tor Browser
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Mullvad Browser
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ProtonVPN (or a VPN of your choice, Proton is the best free VPN/email, the best paid VPN is probably Mullvad and can be hyper anonymous if you need it). It is suggested that you use a separate Proton account for your VPN than for your anonymous email. If you're super paranoid and breaking a lot of laws, you can have your TOR connection end with a VPN in order to mask your TOR traffic to reddit, but that is outside the scope of this guide.
What to think on to be effective:
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A target. Certain subreddits and communities may house more leftists and trans people.
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Contradictions. What are differences between the base of the community and the moderators? What are differences between the base of the community and the content on reddit?
What not to do:
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Do not change the base configuration of any of the browsers (besides a fully local editor such as Dark Reader), they're perfect as they are 💖
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Do not ever turn off the VPN while conducting activities.
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Do not ever access your Proton anonymous email without TOR Browser.
Steps:
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You need an anonymous Proton mail account.
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Open up Tor Browser.
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Go to YOPmail. This is a temporary email site with new domains every day. Proton is vigilant about these services, so you may need to try different domains for your temp mail, such as in this table.
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Go to proton.me in Tor Browser and sign up using the temp mail. If they block you, try a different domain until it sends an email to the temp mail.
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Now that you have a Proton account, go to Proton Pass. As always, only access the Proton account with Tor Browser. Create a new email alias, you will be using aliases for any new reddit account you make.
- Caveat: Proton may ask for further verification by detecting that you used a temp mail after signup. Go to emailnator.com in TOR and get a temporary gmail address to use for receiving verification, then turn off the recovery option.
- Open up Mullvad Browser and be sure your VPN is turned on. You can check if your IP is leaking on sites like ipleak.net.
- Q: Why Mullvad Browser? Its base configuration is good, and if you use private browsing, reddit will be incapable of building a fingerprint on you, which is the second way it can ban people via tracking. Be sure to save passwords in KeepassXC or a password manager of your choice. Reddit also blocks sign-ins from TOR Browser (due to its superior anonymity), but do not block VPNs, and Mullvad Browser is best used with VPNs.
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Make a reddit account with your proton email alias. This should be fairly straightforward, sometimes reddit will ask for a lot of captchas. Do them, it'll work eventually. Go to your main proton inbox (in TOR browser) and handle the verification email.
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Done! You are now ready to agitate for a leftist cause. Reddit communities and reddit itself often have a ban on participation until you reach a certain karma level or account age. The easiest way to bypass this is to go to a meme subreddit, find an old meme, and (lmao) repost it. You'll get thousands of upvotes immediately and easily bypass the spam filter. You can also make accounts in bulk in order to accrue time.
With good knowledge of macros, its even possible to set it up so that you can make accounts with one press of a button.
If any of you would like help or more information, do not hesitate to ask.
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Are you cisgender? Gender Survey Result: Majority of active Hexbear users say No and Maybe.
(imgur.artemislena.eu)
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3635039
Various thoughts:
Around 20 people weren't properly covered by the gender categories, obviously we're trying to be as inclusive as possible and a different approach will be tried next time
There were about 600 respondents, which gives us a accurate sampling of the active userbase. If you multiply any number by 3, you'll get a fairly accurate representation of the full userbase each week. This means there are around 800-900 people who don't identify fully as cis each week on this site.
Nearly 300 trans/gender diverse/questioning people unanimously agree that hexbear is an inclusive space
There was so much data on gender that I was really struggling to find a way to convey the data that wasnt a pie chart, graph, or an incomprehensible kalaeidoscope. If you have an idea on how to beautify the data, you can download the raw data here: https://pad.artemislena.eu/file/#/2/file/xzy4pck8on+oZp9yGRUIezR+/ - I further anonymized this data by removing time of response and any specific comments, I don't think it would be easy for anyone to figure out who is who.
There were a couple of text responses that really needed further elaboration, I noted hexbear's rules next to these comments
I'll probably be doing a demographics survey sometime in the future, including basic fairly anonymous stuff like "what region were you born in" "where do the languages you speak originate" "would you describe yourself as a POC" "what age range are you in".
The percentage of people answering they were cisgender increased by 8% than the previous survey. This could be for a myriad of reasons, such as cis people being afraid trans people will hunt them down in the public thread and assassinate them. Anonymity may have made them feel safer to respond. Regardless, way more people responded this time, which signifies that people felt safer responding to the cryptpad or it was easier to do. The leading question was a bit more inclusive than last time, but I think I'll include both questions (are you transgender / gender diverse and are you cisgender) to see how people respond.
We have a lot of people that aren't binary trans on this site.
Some of the questions were pretty funky and we got a lot of fuzzy responses on them as a result. In particular "After you realized you were trans/gender diverse, how long did it take for you to begin to act on it?" and "At what age did you begin transition?" caused a lot of friction, I think I will ask more vague questions in the future that lead to a path of more specific questions to capture better data, and to save people time. Questions like "Do you feel your gender transition had a defined starting point?" and some further ones.
Around 20 people each week on this site are cis she/hers, which is very low and roughly the same as last time. I feel like if hexbear ever starts hosting other federated stuff (like a federated tiktok or something) and can hook into it natively with lemmy, we'd see a better ratio.
I tried to be very sure any data with >2 people on it was clearly legible, I think some people might find it fun that there are others with their same fairly specific classifications per this survey lurking around on the site.
Overall I feel like the survey was a success despite some bumps.
You can find the other surveys/links here: https://hexbear.net/post/3016455
I made these graphs on company time
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Are you cisgender? Gender Survey Result: Majority of active Hexbear users say No and Maybe.
(imgur.artemislena.eu)
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3635039
Various thoughts:
Around 20 people weren't properly covered by the gender categories, obviously we're trying to be as inclusive as possible and a different approach will be tried next time
There were about 600 respondents, which gives us a accurate sampling of the active userbase. If you multiply any number by 3, you'll get a fairly accurate representation of the full userbase each week. This means there are around 800-900 people who don't identify fully as cis each week on this site.
Nearly 300 trans/gender diverse/questioning people unanimously agree that hexbear is an inclusive space
There was so much data on gender that I was really struggling to find a way to convey the data that wasnt a pie chart, graph, or an incomprehensible kalaeidoscope. If you have an idea on how to beautify the data, you can download the raw data here: https://pad.artemislena.eu/file/#/2/file/xzy4pck8on+oZp9yGRUIezR+/ - I further anonymized this data by removing time of response and any specific comments, I don't think it would be easy for anyone to figure out who is who.
There were a couple of text responses that really needed further elaboration, I noted hexbear's rules next to these comments
I'll probably be doing a demographics survey sometime in the future, including basic fairly anonymous stuff like "what region were you born in" "where do the languages you speak originate" "would you describe yourself as a POC" "what age range are you in".
The percentage of people answering they were cisgender increased by 8% than the previous survey. This could be for a myriad of reasons, such as cis people being afraid trans people will hunt them down in the public thread and assassinate them. Anonymity may have made them feel safer to respond. Regardless, way more people responded this time, which signifies that people felt safer responding to the cryptpad or it was easier to do. The leading question was a bit more inclusive than last time, but I think I'll include both questions (are you transgender / gender diverse and are you cisgender) to see how people respond.
We have a lot of people that aren't binary trans on this site.
Some of the questions were pretty funky and we got a lot of fuzzy responses on them as a result. In particular "After you realized you were trans/gender diverse, how long did it take for you to begin to act on it?" and "At what age did you begin transition?" caused a lot of friction, I think I will ask more vague questions in the future that lead to a path of more specific questions to capture better data, and to save people time. Questions like "Do you feel your gender transition had a defined starting point?" and some further ones.
Around 20 people each week on this site are cis she/hers, which is very low and roughly the same as last time. I feel like if hexbear ever starts hosting other federated stuff (like a federated tiktok or something) and can hook into it natively with lemmy, we'd see a better ratio.
I tried to be very sure any data with >2 people on it was clearly legible, I think some people might find it fun that there are others with their same fairly specific classifications per this survey lurking around on the site.
Overall I feel like the survey was a success despite some bumps.
You can find the other surveys/links here: https://hexbear.net/post/3016455
I made these graphs on company time
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3520611
You can find updates on this group on the link below. You should only trust information provided in this link and verified via our general Simplex Chat mentioned in the link below. We have affiliates that will be monitoring Hexbear and other trans groups to assist people. Our goal is to securely help transgender people in unusual circumstances with basic necessities that trans people need. Thank you.
We suggest viewing this link via TOR or VPN, while this site (hosted by a trans person) mentions they do not log IP, you can never be 100% sure about hosting providers. All further updates will be only through this URL and our Simplex Chat.
https://pad.artemislena.eu/code/#/2/code/view/OBjUSvB-We-z4zoAFcFp2qicIFWwExL81W9sdkwILBY/
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3520611
You can find updates on this group on the link below. You should only trust information provided in this link and verified via our general Simplex Chat mentioned in the link below. We have affiliates that will be monitoring Hexbear and other trans groups to assist people. Our goal is to securely help transgender people in unusual circumstances with basic necessities that trans people need. Thank you.
We suggest viewing this link via TOR or VPN, while this site (hosted by a trans person) mentions they do not log IP, you can never be 100% sure about hosting providers. All further updates will be only through this URL and our Simplex Chat.
https://pad.artemislena.eu/code/#/2/code/view/OBjUSvB-We-z4zoAFcFp2qicIFWwExL81W9sdkwILBY/
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Fingers crossed that RFK will transmit a worm to him or something by giving him raw milk and he just sits tweeting for the next 4 years