'It's a Huge Relief': Trans 'Shitposters' on Bluesky Feel Safer Away From Twitter

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'It's a Huge Relief': Trans 'Shitposters' on Bluesky Feel Safer Away From Twitter
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Bluesky has users considering just how toxic their timelines have become on a website owned by Elon Musk.

around gender-affirming care, “WE ARE GOING TO BEAT YOU WITH HAMMERS.” The drama quickly became a cornerstone of Bluesky lore, and users continue to post joking threats that include the hammer emoji. After Hannah was removed along with a few others, Graber said that they would all be “welcome to join elsewhere in the federation and perhaps reconnect with us after we exit beta.”.

“I don’t have too many regrets about getting banned,” she says. “I think I said what a lot of trans people have wanted to say to the ‘just asking questions’ transphobic journalists, and I’m proud to get to do it in a way that lets [Yglesias] know how hated he is for that.” However, she adds, “I would like to be unbanned and I promise to be on my best behavior from here on out.

Hannah says that while the developers are certainly on top of things at the moment, it may become difficult to prevent harassment as the user base expands. “But I feel more hopeful about Bluesky than basically any other social media I’ve used,” she says, citing the invite-only system that has largely kept the worst trolls off the platform while granting access to tons of her Twitter friends.

This uninhibited joy, which has inspired a dizzying proliferation of memes, slang, personal connections (and, yes,

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