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Has anyone made an explicitly pro-trans, anti-fascist fork of Soapbox yet?

Oh look I stirred the bees nest

@liaizon isn't it itself just a fork of pleroma? what would be the benefits?

@cinebox well there is the start of a pretty active Pleroma fork called Akkoma that was recently started. But Soapbox and Rebased are both diverging a lot from Pleroma and I want nothing to do with filing issues in either of their repos because of many of the folks who are involved.

@cinebox @liaizon soapbox is both a fork of Pleroma and a whole frontend. You can use them separately. Here we are using our own fork of soapbox FE and Akkoma :derpy:
@clovis @cinebox @liaizon Soapbox is just the frond-end nowadays. He renamed the back "Rebase"

the benefit is a MUCH cleaner and clearer UI.

@liaizon Why would you need a fork? Sounds more like you are describing the content and people you wish to see on a (Soapbox) instance.

@mikael @liaizon Using the Soapbox frontend can and will ward off some folks from your instance, so it is a meaningful question.

@hypolite @mikael exactly this. And for good reason. If someone walks into a room wearing a pepe lapel pin on their shirt it doesnt mean they are a white supremacist, but it definitely means something and is usually a huge red flag. The creator of soapbox is *currently* working for trump's truthsocial and is an very vocal terf

@liaizon there is treebird (wip) by @neko . It is kinda based on same principles and look similar and right now it might be on the same usability level.