Spinster.xyz

Lol at people trying to stop women from signing up to Spinster to discuss women's rights.

For some people, the desire to stop women talking to each other unsupervised, is so overwhelming, they will say and do things which undermine their credibility to such an extent that everything they say thereafter is automatically ignored.

And still they do it. They can't help themselves. The living example of the law of diminishing returns.

How is PeachYogurt’s forum going? What’s the name again?

Well tbh I'm enjoying it over there.

As ever, a degree of caution is always worth while and I generally subscribe to the view that if you wouldn't say something in RL then don't say it online (and if confidentially is important to you then use a burner email to register).

I think people are getting confused about the way the Open Source software is being used and DejaVulva has done a good job of explaining it.

It's early days for the site, and who knows how it will pan out, but if we don't try and carve a safe space out online for ourselves who will?

There's a good reason people want to scare women from registering - they don't want this to be successful, they don't want a place for women to talk freely and organise.

MN has been great but is also under pressure and we have rules that can be difficult at times to swallow.

I'm not leaving MN or FWR but I do like the concept of having another place that's less restricted by the requirements to appease advertisers at the expense of not being allowed to state biological truth.

Lol at people trying to stop women from signing up to Spinster to discuss women's rights. Now where have we seen that type of behaviour before?

tighten up there structure and define some definitions of what they will allow this tech to be used for.

Ah, Bespin, I can tell you're not familiar with FLOSS. Mastodon and its derivatives are free-as-in-freedom software that anyone can run their own instance of themselves. The authors have no ability at all to control what other people use it for.

Seeing as you are so keen to stop people from.using server technologies in ways you don't like, perhaps you can head to the latest Ozimek/Fae thread and come up with ideas about how the authors of Tomcat, Apache, and Nginx can prevent their software from being used to host child abuse images, rape footage, etc in the name of men getting their jollies?

Well, I signed on there yesterday.

And then, this afternoon, influenced by what I had read there, I went right out and had a buzzcut and a swastika tattooed on my forehead1!1!

(No, not really. I think some posters may be exaggerating just a teensy bit!)

I WONT LANG

😂

DON'T GO THERE WOMEN!

NEVER GO THERE.

WHERE YOU CAN TALK TO EACH OTHER.

NOPE.

DON'T DO IT.

Scary, all those women talking to each other without being under coercive control by males, isn't it? Terrifying.

DejaVulva

Totally agree, but I have been reading how this pertucular network at this time is being used and exploited by such groups its all over the Internet in relation to this. I really hope they tighten up there structure and define some definitions of what they will allow this tech to be used for.

it's no diffent to kewi farmers and plenty of people on here use that site. The whole structure is being taken advantage of by right wing and neo nazi groups due to its minimal boundaries.

What rubbish!

You have no understanding of the structure of Open Source networking obviously!

Any user of such a network can block whole aspects of such a network and, if not that, can block any individual user of such a network.

it's no diffent to kewi farmers and plenty of people on here use that site. The whole structure is being taken advantage of by right wing and neo nazi groups due to its minimal boundaries.

Agree that if people are happy posting on Twitter it's no different to that. You can limit your audience when you post. I'm happy with it so far but if people aren't they can ignore it

Also, whilst platform itself has no ads, this does not in any way mean that users are not being tracked as to their activity on the platform, and their activity used to target ads and other content on other internet platforms and sites.

We all know that using the Internet means we are all monitored and tracked. It's what the men who control the Internet have chosen to do. That is on those men whose insecurity is so deep they have a need to keep tabs on everyone else. We know this already. The Internet is controlled by very sick , coercively controlling men.

Spinster is a tiny space that is not directly controlled by such insecure and paranoid men. Spinster isn't going to go away regardless of how many men choose to monitor / track it and its users.

Neither is Mumsnet going to go away, regardless of how many sick, insecure and paranoid men would wish it be so.

We are all very aware of all the gaslighting in which such men engage. It no longer works.

I never see any ads

In these blatantly women hating times it makes sense to exercise caution when joining on-line groups. Always best to sign up to social media accounts using burner e-mail addresses and a VPN even if you hope the group you are joining is well protected.

Protonmail.com and the tunnelbear browser extension in the Chrome browser are both free and easy to use. Also, it should go without saying that you use different passwords for all your different accounts and change them occasionally.

Red toothbrush

My security settings wouldn't let me open your link. I've registered but not posted yet (bit of a lurker). Could you say briefly what your concern was? Thanks!

However, any user that avoids the Fediverse environment option cannot be seen by wider Fediverse users.

I wrote this back to front! Sorry!

Any user that avoids the Fediverse environment option cannot see any posts from wider Fediverse users.

We get targeted ads here.

I'm on Spinster and it seems good so far. A nice welcoming place where women can actually talk about issues affecting us.

I wouldn't sign up to Kiwi farms. I read somewhere 'reading Kiwi farms is fine to read but whatever you do don't write anything on there.' I think Kiwi farms, although good at exposing predators, will be full of trolls and hackers and they don't in general like radfems, they call us terfs or terves. Not somewhere I would recommend women hang out.

It's also worth pointing out that's it's not a site about trans ideology it's about feminism, woman and our lives. Yes gender stuff is being discussed but since joining a couple of days ago I've also had conversations about porn, SN, girl's education, portrayal of women in the media and probably other stuff I've forgotten.

By default, your posts will appear in... the Fediverse timeline of anyone who we Federate with... so unless users change settings their posts will appear on timelines of non spinster users.

Also, whilst platform itself has no ads, this does not in any way mean that users are not being tracked as to their activity on the platform, and their activity used to target ads and other content on other internet platforms and sites.

It’s fine if you feel none of this is an issue for you. Go well.

Well said, @OvaHere ... it is a lovely friendly space, so far.