Spinster.xyz

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Hello FWRs

Has anyone signed up to spinster.xyz yet? It’s like twitter but without the misogyny. No banning for stating biological truths. See you over there hopefully

I have signed up but late at night and not thinking clearly so registered to close to my real name, so currently just working.

I have read all the issue about security etc., etc., but quite honestly the worst thing about it is all the twitter obsessives who are bringing their negativity and schoolyard bullying into the forum.

They clearly stated it would be an open forum for gender critical comments (and much much more women centred postings) and a small group thought that somehow getting Glinner to unregister would not only be a victory but somehow free up the limited space to those who were late in trying to register.

At moment I find it quite uninteresting. As someone else said a bit like the last day of term and everyone rushing round saying naughty things to get a round of applauce. May wait and see how it settles down and work out if it is worth registering in a less revealing name. (Posts from Spinster can be shared via their URL).

Also, unlike some who have commented here I get far more out of facebook (by not joining any womens groups where there always seems to be some control freak making it a negative experience). And by the way I have had no problem with registering under a fake name. Facebook's problem was they thought anyone who didn't have a name that reflected a WASP heritage couldn't be real.

Have found that on facebook, as on mumsnet you come into contact with women who you might not necessarily ever have contact with in real live. And I learn from that, even if I dont necessarily change my opinion!

I think just having a space where women can openly discuss gender critical issues and the impact of transactivism on women's rights is really valuable.

There is moderation, but on reasonable grounds eg sharing someone else's personal info, racism, and so on.

So I hope it will be positive. But at the moment I already spend too much time on social media where I am able to be gender critical so dont know that I need another place.

Just hope the twitter obsessives get a new life and realist they dont have to see the world through the lens a a hostile male forum.

(Some mumsnetter has been complaining on Spinster that mumsnet isn't strict enough about those posting on mumsnet who (s)he considers to be disrupters!!)

It's reopened for new registrations now.

sorry I went to work, you know some of us do that don't you.?

Oh, oi oi, Bespin. You're back! Excellent!

Missing the point though, sadly (mine as well as The Inebriati's but I'll just concentrate on my point).

I wasn't asking for your daily schedule or your shift times. I was, along with HaXX0r, wondering whether you also intended to air concerns about this in addition to your clear, er, worry for the welfare of women talking to each other via the Spinster platform:

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?

What say you, Bespin? Shall we see you on that thread? After all, server technologies being potentially misused clearly concerns you greatly.

I registered but thought I'd leave it to settle for a few days.

It's down at the moment

I thought the attack on Glinner was a shame. He's done a lot for gender critical feminism and would have been a positive contributor. He must feel awful after doing so much, and putting up with all that TRA abuse.

I just joined and was really enjoying it, definitely didn’t experience it as juvenile. Suddenly it shut down so I really hope it’s not an attack. Why is it so threatening to men for women to want to get together and talk?

I've joined up under a different username from MN and followed those I recognise from FWR, but I'll probably be a lurker like I was on Twitter as to my shame I don't really understand how these platforms work...

Someone posted a link to the Wiki entry below and I think it's quite pertinent wrt how things appear to be going over on Spinster.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckman%27s_stages_of_group_development

I keep trying to join but I haven’t got the email to finish registering 😕

I’m not on Twitter so somewhat clueless but I have nothing identifying on there.

Oph - try your spam email

Not i agree.

Part of the teething process I think.

I hope I didn't imply it was juvenile.

Just more like the first day of freedom and everyone is running round letting of steam!

I was hoping Spinster would stop or ban the monitors - am I misunderstanding?

Joss has signed up and already reporting

mobile.twitter.com/joss_prior/status/1163108301762158592

“So anyway, I signed up for the T.e.r.f.s. Gab rip-off, Spinster.”

Is this not banable behaviour? Specially when women couldn’t sign up due to numbers?

Happy Sunday you couldn't-stay-away old thing!

I realise Joss can’t survive, live, thrive, etc. without the succour of ‘real’ women, but oh my word dial down the jealous!

It's a shame to see the site being criticised. I don't find it juvenile at all, I think women are really enjoying saying what they've been banned from saying elsewhere. Best of luck to Spinster and long may it thrive.

I don’t know who to follow or how to find people that I follow on Twitter 😕

I think spinster serves a certain purpose. I think it's fine to be critical about it. In fact it's healthy to. It's never going to please everyone - nor should it. It's got a purpose that's different to other places - that's what gives it value and a unique selling point. It's always going to hit technical issues by virtue of its newness - and because its a target.

It's personally not for me, as I have reservations about the extent to which it's an echo chamber and has a narrow self selecting user base.

But there's nothing wrong about that.

It might be perfect for someone else.

What we need tbh, is pluralism. This forms part of that.

Ideally we do need more places with a very broad base and encourage debate between different views, but at this moment in time we are not close to that being as realistic as a possibility as I'd like.

Also thanks for sharing that link about group formation terryleather it's really interesting and seems to apply to the GC movement as a whole. I think we are currently in the 'storming' stage and I hope we can move out of this soon otherwise we're probably going to go down with the ship.

I keep hoping that the disagreements are put aside so everyone can work together. In the end those disagreements won't matter if we no longer have any of our rights left.

The site is great. Already about 4k users. Joss is spinning Joss's unique version of the truth over on Twitter, and fellow TRAs are lapping it up...

Does anyone know how you can search topics on there?

“So anyway, I signed up for the T.e.r.f.s. Gab rip-off, Spinster.”

Oh Joss what do you think you're going to do?

The site is great. Already about 4k users.

Yes .. one wonders how many users Twitter had in its first week of existence? I am sure it was an extremely narrow group of users that signed up in its earliest days.

No doubt, Spinster will grow and become a viable alternative as a platform that treats women's voices as a valuable resource.

My understanding is that Spinster was created as a social media platform for everyone aged 13 and over, that will not tolerate sexism and misogyny and will not censor any voice that abides by its rules for participation.

spinster.xyz/about

Joss is encouraging Hayden and Mackinnon to join so that will be fun! God knows what they think they are going to do apart from explode in a narc rage! Hilarious!