Northsky: A Haven for the Trans Community, or a Trap

If you know me, you know I’m the “misandry isn’t real” and offline closeted trans woman whoms’t doesn’t know if I’ll ever return to transition, unless by some miracle I fall into a supportive circle again. A supportive circle that doesn’t dissolve or abuse and then mulch me for having opinions like, “Trans men being denied entry into spaces for trans women isn’t oppression, or the mythical concept of ‘misandry’, you dolts.” Or, “I like to mess around with LLMs, and I am quite aware this pisses people off, I don’t care. I’m not in high school anymore, and neither are you.” Never-the-less, and despite running my own PDS either standalone, or via a Wafrn instance for the past year or so, I was a little optimistic about Northsky. In fact, I’ve been on its wait-list for a year? Year and a half? Two years? It’s hard to count now how long its been since they announced this thing. And I’ve been baffled the whole time, because … hosting a PDS is like a 10 minute setup process. Putting a…