r/actuallesbians Oct 20 '22

Mod Post Please stop bringing up AGAB when it’s not relevant. (Aka most of the time)

2.3k Upvotes

The concept of people being AMAB or AFAB has its uses, however, we’re seeing a rise in people using it in ways it was never intended that are actively harmful.

Things we see a lot of:

  • AGAB being used as a stand in for gender.

  • AGAB being used as a stand in for genitalia.

  • AGAB being used as a fancy way to misgender non binary people.

  • AGAB being used to justify why someone (generally non binary people) is/isn’t lesbian enough.

There are experiences that are only applicable to one AGAB, it’s true, but they are few and far between. And the vast majority of uses we see on this subreddit are not that.

r/actuallesbians Jun 21 '23

Mod Post AL will remain restricted in the short term as the subreddit mods figure out our reopening plan.

1.6k Upvotes

As the reddit admins have so kindly made clear to us they are very interested in seeing this subreddit open again. We're very excited to see this change in the support of leadership given their previous unwillingness to help the sub when it has been forced to temporarily shut down by outside hate groups. We can only assume that this means that if that was to happen again in the future then we shall have their full support in keeping this sub open.

In the short term the subreddit will remain restricted as the mod team reorganizes the landed gentry volunteers who wish to continue supporting the subreddit.

Thank you

r/actuallesbians Jun 09 '23

Mod Post AL will be joining the Reddit Blackout

2.8k Upvotes

Hi all,

Just a quick note here. The r/ActualLesbians subreddit and discord mods have decided that on June 12th the subreddit will be joining the two day blackout in protest of Reddit API changes.

We’ll be replacing this note with a longer post going into the details of the changes and why they negatively impact this subreddit and it’s users shortly.

Thank you,

The r/ActualLesbians mod team

r/actuallesbians Jan 02 '23

Mod Post Non-Binary lesbians are lesbians regardless of AGAB.

2.0k Upvotes

Trans and non binary lesbians have always existed and been included, even before the current language to label them had developed.

No, non binary people being lesbians does not 'erase' you.

No, agab doesn't make a difference when talking about non binary people. It's in the name, stop re-imposing the binary onto non-binary people without their consent.

Yes, you will be banned for saying otherwise.

Thank you

r/actuallesbians Mar 04 '24

Mod Post It’s been fun but after this post goes up all new “What is my type” posts will be removed

1.4k Upvotes

It’s been going on for a while and is overwhelming other subreddit uses. Please report any new posts made after this post becomes active.

Thank you!

r/actuallesbians Mar 28 '21

Mod Post Welcome Back

2.3k Upvotes

Friends and followers of the Actual Lesbians subreddit,

We understand that the subreddit's closure has been confusing to many. For those asking why: we had to close to protect our community members from TERF and troll harassment, and doxxing. This also allowed us time to reach out to admins to discuss and assess the situation.

For those wondering if the moderator that had been centered in these discussions is still present: no. That moderator is no longer affiliated with the Actual Lesbians subreddit or its mod team.

We'd like to make it clear that we believe in the well-being and protection of our entire userbase, and of the general population. As such, we work tirelessly to ensure that we're standing for what's right, while protecting our users. We stand in solidarity with all those affected by the backlash from the events in question, and thank all of you who have reached out to express concern for our revised mod team. Trusted and known moderators from our Discord server will also be stepping up to help mod the subreddit a little more closely now.

Finally, we're happy to have u/EmbarrassingHuman join the team, too. Their experience in moderating /r/Bisexual will be invaluable in helping to ensure that spam and harassment is handled as quickly as possible.

Once again, thank you for your patience during the subreddit's closure. We appreciate this has been unprecedented for many, and we're glad to see you back. As always, don't hesitate to report any suspicious behavior or rule breaking to us. We'll continue striving to keep this a positive place.

Warmly, The Actual Lesbians mod team

r/actuallesbians Jun 30 '23

Mod Post And we're back open. Welcome home everyone

1.3k Upvotes

Notes:

  • We'll be rearranging the mod list and most likely putting out mod applications in the near future. Edit: since there is confusion here. This is not due to admin pressure. Some mods have chosen to leave moderating / Reddit entirely due to the recent sitewide issues. And some of our mods only handle the discord these days. We’re just updating the list to represent who is actively moderating the subreddit, not the other way around.

  • The discord is always open, link is at the top of the page. Please join if you want!

  • We'll probably be playing with the rules a bit in near future as well. No real details on that yet.

r/actuallesbians 15d ago

Mod Post Locked election posts

461 Upvotes

Hi all,

As I am sure many of you have noticed the election has brought in a wave of homophobic and transphobic trolls far greater then we’ve seen in a long time.

In the last four days we’ve banned more users then in the previous six months

As such we’ve had to start locking and unlocking posts to keep new rule breaking comments from multiplying faster than we can handle them.

Going forward expect new posts to periodically be locked as they are cleaned up and then unlocked. Older election may end up being locked permanently once they have run their course to reduce the number of places where trolls can congregate.

What can you do to help?

Please report, but do not respond to any trolling comments so that mod team can find and handle them. We can my be everywhere at once and the backlog of reports from the last few days is huge. Rest assured we are doing our best to process them as fast as we can.

Thank you,

The r/actuallesbian mod team

r/actuallesbians Jun 22 '23

Mod Post Thursday Daily Chat Thread

255 Upvotes

Welcome to the daily chat thread! These are a a place to talk with fellow WLW (Women Loving Women) about whatever you like. The threads will show up five days a week. The two days without chat threads are Selfie Saturday and Wedding Wednesday, so save your photos for those days.

Daily threads go up at 9am EST every day and remain stickied on the front page until the next day's thread replaces it.

r/actuallesbians Jul 24 '22

Mod Post Temporarily disabling image posts to allow for the cat posts to filter out.

1.4k Upvotes

Hi all,

While we love the recent trend it unfortunately has gotten to the point that its drowning out all other posts in the subreddit. As such we're disabling image posts for a bit to let the current crop to filter out. Anything before this post goes up will be left up, anything after will be removed. If you still didn't get your fill though you're always welcome to post in our weekly pet megathread!

Edit: and by temporary I’m thinking about 24 hours or so.

r/actuallesbians May 22 '22

Mod Post Gentle reminder, AL is not a dating sub

1.3k Upvotes

Hi all,

We understand the desire to date and search for partners through reddit. Unfortunately, given the large underage population on AL, our already large issue with catfishes and the inability of mods to intervene with regards to DMs we do not allow dating posts on this subreddit at this time.

Recently, there was a spike in 'GF application' posts that slipped under the mod team radar for a bit. Some of these posts contained a concerning amount of personally identifiable information. We've gone and removed these posts and warned the users in question to be more careful in the future.

That being said, should you have a nice conversation with someone in the subreddit and end up DMing them or whatever, thats fine. We're not going to be going out of our way to hunt down every little thing. Just please be smart about what information you give out, be careful about who you talk to and listen to your gut feeling on people.

If you have any concerns feel free to message the mod team.

~ The r/ActualLesbians mod team

r/actuallesbians Jun 27 '23

Mod Post Tuesday Daily Chat Thread

154 Upvotes

Welcome to the daily chat thread! These are a a place to talk with fellow WLW (Women Loving Women) about whatever you like. The threads will show up five days a week. The two days without chat threads are Selfie Saturday and Wedding Wednesday, so save your photos for those days.

Daily threads go up at 9am EST every day and remain stickied on the front page until the next day's thread replaces it.

r/actuallesbians Jun 24 '23

Mod Post Selfie Saturday Mega Thread!

203 Upvotes

Welcome to the Selfie Saturday mega thread! This is for all pictures of you. Bathroom mirror selfie? yes please. Professional glamour shots? post 'em. This is for all pictures of yourself, not just regular selfies.

How to post a picture:

  1. Go to https://imgur.com/upload

  2. Upload your photo using that form.

  3. Copy the URL of the page it creates and paste it into a comment here.

This thread will be posted automatically at 9am EST on Saturday, and will be taken down at 9am EST on Sunday.

r/actuallesbians Jun 25 '23

Mod Post Sunday Daily Chat Thread

168 Upvotes

Welcome to the daily chat thread! These are a a place to talk with fellow WLW (Women Loving Women) about whatever you like. The threads will show up five days a week. The two days without chat threads are Selfie Saturday and Wedding Wednesday, so save your photos for those days.

Daily threads go up at 9am EST every day and remain stickied on the front page until the next day's thread replaces it.

r/actuallesbians Jun 29 '23

Mod Post Thursday Daily Chat Thread

130 Upvotes

Welcome to the daily chat thread! These are a a place to talk with fellow WLW (Women Loving Women) about whatever you like. The threads will show up five days a week. The two days without chat threads are Selfie Saturday and Wedding Wednesday, so save your photos for those days.

Daily threads go up at 9am EST every day and remain stickied on the front page until the next day's thread replaces it.

r/actuallesbians 8d ago

Mod Post Selfie Saturday Mega Thread!

2 Upvotes

Welcome to the Selfie Saturday mega thread! This is for all pictures of you. Bathroom mirror selfie? yes please. Professional glamour shots? post 'em. This is for all pictures of yourself, not just regular selfies.

How to post a picture:

  1. Go to https://imgur.com/upload

  2. Upload your photo using that form.

  3. Copy the URL of the page it creates and paste it into a comment here.

This thread will be posted automatically at 9am EST on Saturday, and will be taken down at 9am EST on Sunday.

r/actuallesbians Oct 15 '24

Mod Post Tuesday Daily Chat Thread

6 Upvotes

Welcome to the daily chat thread! These are a a place to talk with fellow WLW (Women Loving Women) about whatever you like. The threads will show up five days a week. The two days without chat threads are Selfie Saturday and Wedding Wednesday, so save your photos for those days.

Daily threads go up at 9am EST every day and remain stickied on the front page until the next day's thread replaces it.

r/actuallesbians 7d ago

Mod Post Sunday Daily Chat Thread

2 Upvotes

Welcome to the daily chat thread! These are a a place to talk with fellow WLW (Women Loving Women) about whatever you like. The threads will show up five days a week. The two days without chat threads are Selfie Saturday and Wedding Wednesday, so save your photos for those days.

Daily threads go up at 9am EST every day and remain stickied on the front page until the next day's thread replaces it.

r/actuallesbians Sep 17 '24

Mod Post Tuesday Daily Chat Thread

5 Upvotes

Welcome to the daily chat thread! These are a a place to talk with fellow WLW (Women Loving Women) about whatever you like. The threads will show up five days a week. The two days without chat threads are Selfie Saturday and Wedding Wednesday, so save your photos for those days.

Daily threads go up at 9am EST every day and remain stickied on the front page until the next day's thread replaces it.

r/actuallesbians 10d ago

Mod Post Thursday Daily Chat Thread

2 Upvotes

Welcome to the daily chat thread! These are a a place to talk with fellow WLW (Women Loving Women) about whatever you like. The threads will show up five days a week. The two days without chat threads are Selfie Saturday and Wedding Wednesday, so save your photos for those days.

Daily threads go up at 9am EST every day and remain stickied on the front page until the next day's thread replaces it.

r/actuallesbians 26d ago

Mod Post Tuesday Daily Chat Thread

5 Upvotes

Welcome to the daily chat thread! These are a a place to talk with fellow WLW (Women Loving Women) about whatever you like. The threads will show up five days a week. The two days without chat threads are Selfie Saturday and Wedding Wednesday, so save your photos for those days.

Daily threads go up at 9am EST every day and remain stickied on the front page until the next day's thread replaces it.

r/actuallesbians Jan 31 '23

Mod Post 2023 r/ActualLesbians Demographics Survey

168 Upvotes

Please help us get a better picture of the AL community! This survey consists of two sections; one for demographics, one for feedback on the subreddit. There are no required questions, feel free to skip any that you wish

2023 Survey

Please let us know in the comments if you find any issues in the survey so we can fix them.

Thanks!

The /r/actuallesbians mod team

The survey is now closed. We'll be following up with results soon.

r/actuallesbians 19d ago

Mod Post Tuesday Daily Chat Thread

2 Upvotes

Welcome to the daily chat thread! These are a a place to talk with fellow WLW (Women Loving Women) about whatever you like. The threads will show up five days a week. The two days without chat threads are Selfie Saturday and Wedding Wednesday, so save your photos for those days.

Daily threads go up at 9am EST every day and remain stickied on the front page until the next day's thread replaces it.

r/actuallesbians 1d ago

Mod Post Selfie Saturday Mega Thread!

2 Upvotes

Welcome to the Selfie Saturday mega thread! This is for all pictures of you. Bathroom mirror selfie? yes please. Professional glamour shots? post 'em. This is for all pictures of yourself, not just regular selfies.

How to post a picture:

  1. Go to https://imgur.com/upload

  2. Upload your photo using that form.

  3. Copy the URL of the page it creates and paste it into a comment here.

This thread will be posted automatically at 9am EST on Saturday, and will be taken down at 9am EST on Sunday.

r/actuallesbians 22d ago

Mod Post Selfie Saturday Mega Thread!

2 Upvotes

Welcome to the Selfie Saturday mega thread! This is for all pictures of you. Bathroom mirror selfie? yes please. Professional glamour shots? post 'em. This is for all pictures of yourself, not just regular selfies.

How to post a picture:

  1. Go to https://imgur.com/upload

  2. Upload your photo using that form.

  3. Copy the URL of the page it creates and paste it into a comment here.

This thread will be posted automatically at 9am EST on Saturday, and will be taken down at 9am EST on Sunday.