Having been here and posting as openly #trans since early November, the reason I adore the #Fediverse (or at least my corner of it) is the safety for us and wonderful moderation. It's a joyful, quirky, safe space where people can flourish :heart_trans:​ It was much quieter back then, but you know what? I'm here to be openly myself. I'm not here for 'reach' and I don't want to read transphobic slurs - which I have also seen on the lemmy side of the Fediverse - it's like reading birdsite stuff. So I fully support servers wanting to protect people like myself pro-actively as a starting point because Threads can be the same, but also much worse given user numbers QT: can strongly recommend this:

Blåhaj Lemmy - Choose Your Interface

And if you don't follow Ada - the wonderful admin of blahaj.zone and lemmy.blahaj.zone - consider it a big recco, as she's simply awesome btw