Talk:Spinster.xyz

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Worthy?

Is this worth a full article or would it make more sense to stick it in as part of a larger piece?--Hastur! (talk) 05:03, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Before this gets moved to mainspace, I would like to see a citation given for the primary claim that makes this page of any interest, that it is transphobic. Bongolian (talk) 07:08, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

I feel we could do with a larger article on the Fediverse and bad instances, which this could be a part of, but I have been checked out of the Fediverse for a bit too long to find a lot of the bad instances. Anyway, here's a source I very lazily found where Vox essentially makes the claim we have in our article[1]. And I know it's more of a personal anecdote so not really good evidence, but it seems that the guy running it is the same person who tried to convince me that Gab wasn't a hate site because it had "feminists with contrary opinions on it", which turned out to just be TERFs. Techpriest ^{(I am Alpharius! / / / )} 07:51, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Perhaps I was wrong

Based on these, maybe there was some collaboration with Gab to launch Spinster: 1, 2. These are new to me, though. Just some leads to follow... but these look almost in line with Vox's claim that Spinster had been "organized under" Gab, at least in part! Chillpilled (talk) 16:01, 13 April 2023 (UTC) Also here's a potential source (which I must re-read): 3 Chillpilled (talk) 16:13, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

This article is still a work-in-progress. It's to be expected that the picture will change as more sources are found. I made a similar error when writing the Kathleen Stock article. Specifically, I relied on a Liberal Currents article which stated "no evidence has been provided that this advice was given [by police], let alone as a response to actual harassment," but later found a police statement confirming they had received a report from Stock and were investigating it buried in an otherwise dodgy Daily Fail article. I think that if you're willing to re-examine your understanding and amend the article in light of new information, this means you approach writing articles with due caution and deference to what sources actually say.

"Spinster.xyz" yields results on Google Books and Google Scholar as well, though it appears to be mostly from "gender-critical" publications and authors. Still could be helpful in building coverage of Spinster's history etc. Nope Rocket (talk) 17:00, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

The Google Books and Scholar sources yielded nothing of use, but wow, this post on Medium really dug out a lot of examples of naked extremism across a variety of TERF communities, not even just Spinster. Chillpilled (talk) 00:01, 14 April 2023 (UTC)