Lucy [she/faer]

Some instances use allowlist meaning other servers are defederated unless added to the list. Hexbear is the only major instance that uses this model, to my knowledge.

Sorry for speaking out against transphobes in a not-wholesome way. It will happen again.

You can create an account on a more populated instance, become mutuals with your sibling’s wafrn account and then boost stuff for them.

Good but then do not bother people with your “bigot is a meaningless word nowadays” when you say such hateful shit. That’s just pathetic.

Said dude who wrote this shit:

And it is at least partly because of a radical overreach in policy demands over the last decade by the “T” in LGBT. It has generated an inevitable backlash that is now hurting the other letters in the soup, of which I am one.

Maybe it’s you who are the problem, at least sometimes?

Counterargument: I don’t want to engage in good faith with a bigot.

But I am not getting much visibility.

I’m afraid that’s just how it is. Tags aren’t very popular among Mastodon users in my experience so they don’t help much either (but I still recommend adding some tags). Literally the only thing that helped my posts getting seen is a boost from some popular Masto person.

You don’t. Instead, you recommend a specific community/instance that they’d like to participate in. And if Fediverse doesn’t have such a community your friend wouldn’t stick with it anyway.

For most people the advantages of federation doesn’t matter at all. What matters is their ability to connect with their fellow human beings on topics they care about.