There's a core problem when designing decentralized networks. You have to make a terrible choice at design time. 1. Either you make a network that is very secure and you protect marginalized people, but you also protect really awful people like pedophiles and human traffickers. OR 2. You don't built it securely and the network by default reflects or even amplifies existing power structures. The Fediverse didn't chose #1, so it ended up with #2, which means that many people won't see the problems. But if you're marginalized because of your ethnicity, your skin color, your country of origin, or a host of other factors, you do. The Fediverse does a decent job for Queer folks, and that's awesome! However the power that Queer folks have on the Fediverse is proportional to its size, and if the network grows then Queer folk may find that their empowerment will start to dissolve, just as its done for other marginalized people on the network, like Jews, and POC. #Fediverse