@bluewitchgwen I'm #NotAGirl, but yeah, I remember the 80s.

@masukomi @taedryn

@miguelpergamon no worries, it's a common mistake ‍️

@miguelpergamon I'm #NotAGirl, but I'm glad I'm entertaining

The way guys treat women they don't find attractive is a good barometer for how they think of women in general.

@w_b #NotAGirl, and you can see all of them at bunnyalice.com or ##CAPTCHAlice here 🩷

@_elena

@delcj attached.

Went thrifting with my partner yesterday, and found a perfect cup for Fedi.

#GoodMeowning

@ni seriously. No one should have to share a space with that many incels at one time.

God, that bus must reek of Axe and butt crust 🫢

@deirdresm

@deirdresm someone needs to stop the bus and kick that Black woman off...so the bus can be safely driven into a lake without causing any loss.

(and then get her a taxi to her destination so she's not late)

#FuckNazis

@May yay! Have fun and be extra gay for me please

@Adrenochrome #ThingsThatAreOnlyAdorableBecauseTheyreTiny

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

@heckinteagan *sigh*

@ricci I understand that that's the case (that tags.pub is block-preserving), so I assume the reason I was still visible at https://tags.pub/profile/AlicePics this morning (despite both me and my instance blocking tags.pub days ago) must have been due to caching or something then?

@toothpaste_sandwich

@ricci sure 🩷 I feel like I was in a particularly good intersection¹ to be able to bring what I perceived as a gross misuse of technology on Fedi into the light.

¹ Being a sexworker and ex-tech executive, who uses specific hashtags containing my name, with a large reach and a lot of community goodwill on Fedi—who also had their name and nudes broadcast by this bot service.

@bitbraindev strong agree.

I had a Twitter account, and used to be a YouTuber, and I have way smaller reach here, but folx here are *way* more engaged in an absolutely wonderful way that I never experienced in other places.

I'd trade volume and reach for authenticity and community any day

@matty

@ricci I think it's expected behavior that my posts should be visible from instances we're federated with, but that new "services" that do something different or unexpected should *always* be *explicitly* opt-in.

The difference is that Evan's "service" created new accounts for all of these hashtags and used them to boost the posts in what came across as a very creepy, entitled, and nonconsensual way.

I don't want a bot called AlicePics on some other server, happily spending its life boosting only naked photos of me. That's creepy.

@toothpaste_sandwich several people DMd me to say that he had been working to get Threads into Fedi, and his projects list those socials for contacts.

I can understand the justification for (though I strongly disagree with) having accounts on X, Threads, BlueSky, or Facebook—they're huge, and a lot of people are still (unfortunately) there.

But I considered Threads move to "participate" in Fedi a hostile act by a company known for violating privacy and for removing protections against hate speech from their platform.

@Shdwdrgn yeah, "exposure" is a currency I've been offered before.

@bitbraindev totally.

And this "I found it online, so it's fair game" mentality is something I fight against constantly with porn accounts who steal from sexworkers and repost it with the disclaimer "DM me to take your photos down".

It's like "no, asshole, you DM *me* if you want to use my work".

@matty

@ricci I have a Mastodon.social account, and I share (some of) my posts there, so yes.

I do have them limited (and I screen follow requests from there) though, because like 80% of attacks I get come from Mastodon.social.