The DU Lounge

Fet Life dot com (but without the space). It's the largest social media site for people in the kink, fetish, and leather communities, straight, queer, and everyone in between.

People in the alternative sexualities communities are always targeted by authoritarian regimes. Always. The site is free to join; there are lively discussions in a context which is as anonymous as anyone wants it to be; it is privately owned by Canadians, so not bound by US laws. It's a space where folks who care are very clear-eyed about just how bad things are likely to get on the way to perhaps getting better. (That site has downsides, too - happy to DM if anyone's truly interested.)

In a political activist chat group on there, I asked where someone had learned about something they had posted in mid-Trump 1.0. They pointed me here. I lurked for several years, reading almost daily, with two main objections to registering for an account. I joined when one of those objections was addressed, with the addition of transphobia as a TOU violation.