What looks to me to be pretty nasty transphobia was posted in the yarn.social IRC channel.

I’ll go on record unequivocally: transphobia is not OK ever. Transwomen are women, transmen are men, and it’s not in any way funny to pretend otherwise even as a “joke”. It’s hurtful and harmful.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci @movq@www.uninformativ.de I for ones was just silently confused, I’m not in the IRC, so whatever it was - therefore I didn’t see it. I also think it’s important to add, that no group, event or action, should be considered “protected from humor”.

It’s a feeling, hard to describe, but the Internet went for mostly toxic, with only a few sanitized places, to now almost fully sanitized. It ruined the fun.

The Fediverse fractured, mostly because some percentage of users, had to find a way to silence those offensive to them, for the entirety of their instance. I really don’t want this place, taking the same path.