dang... rip to the subreddit that helped me find myself
For real. I remember browsing stuff on there and asktg when I started coming out almost a decade ago. Crazy to see a place like that close up shop
i wonder if egg_irl sticks around
Maybe they'll set up shop here!
Woah. So far, I've been super brazen about this whole reddit fiasco; I told myself that if this is how they want to go, then I wish them a painful downfall.
But seeing a community that played such a substantial role in my self-discovery close down forever... It's hitting me in a way I honestly couldn't have predicted. This subreddit, along with /r/egg_irl, forced me to confront things that I had pushed down since childhood.
This really feels like the end of an era, as silly as that may sound.
I hope a lot of those communities move over this way, I'd hate to lose such welcoming places.
Just because you have to change venue doesn't mean your community has to disappear.
Community is more than a place, it's a feeling, it's a people.
Damn... That's an important mental health resource. Humor is a decent defense against both depression and authoritarianism: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. Thankful we are a wonderfully resourceful group but I will dearly miss traa meet chasers and the rest.
Apparently some are trying to make https://raddle.me/f/Trans happen? The fediverse has interested me for a while but it took another controversy to push me into becoming a newbie again. I'm still figuring out how to lemmy :) So far Beehaw seems to be a fabulous place and I'm glad you're all here!
why are there so many trans subs?
Traa was the main meme posting place, so it going down is pretty big news. Honestly, it's a tough world for a lot of trans people, so a lot of us hang out online. Personally, I don't have any friends irl who are trans, even though a good portion of my friends are bi or gay, and they often dont have the same experiences. Trans people are only like 1% of the population at large, so it makes sense when compared to the much more substantial populations of lgb folks
Of all of them, I think i'm going to miss tgcj the most.
There's a lot of things wrapped up in "trans"; lots of identities fall under trans as a term, but don't necessarily relate to one another. I'm a trans woman, while my experience relates in some ways to transmascs and to agender or enby folk, in many ways it does not. This kind of subdivision is, I think, less evident for the L or the G in LGBTQ+ because they're more specific things.
Along with that, Reddit is (was) one of those places where it was possible to build a supportive community of anonymous individuals, somewhere it's safe to be yourself without putting your real identity against that presentation. For a lot of us, it was the first place we were truly us, and it really sucks to see how it's being torn apart right now. A bigger concern especially now, while things are as batshit insane for trans kids as they are, is that these communities will now be harder to access even if they do stick around after the 30th - so where do the people who don't have the safety or freedom in their offline lives to express themselves and work through their identity go then?
Oh, fuck. Man, I hope they move over here, or that I would be able to create !traa@sopuli.xyz or something.
