Image: Captain Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation in the captain's seat on the bridge of the Enterprise with his right hand raised and index finger extended, about to point forward as he says his catchphrase.

Top text: "My wardrobe: *Gives me dysphoria*"

Bottom text: "Me: *Finds a machine at home labeled 'Singer'*"

Template: Evil Kermit (Kermit the Frog on the left faces a Kermit lookalike on the right. The lookalike has his eyes covered by a black cowl, giving him a mysterious, Sith-like appearance.)

Text above Kermit: "Me: *Supposed to be shopping for warm-weather clothes*"

Text below the lookalike: "Me to me: 'I could always use another hoodie…'"

!egg_irl is a community for memes about being eggs (people who are trans but don't know it yet or deny it) and other trans topics.

You can find us by searching for https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/egg_irl or, if someone from your instance has already subscribed, by following this link.

If egg_irl is your cup of tea, you may also be interested in our sibling community, !traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@lemmy.ca.

!egg_irl is a community for memes about being eggs (people who are trans but don't know it yet or deny it) and other trans topics.

You can find us by searching for https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/egg_irl or, if someone from your instance has already subscribed, by following this link.

If egg_irl is your cup of tea, you may also be interested in our sibling community, !traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@lemmy.ca.

Sorry for more meta posts; I'm depending on you all to counterbalance them with memes :).

I wanted to ask if we should have any resources for eggs and trans people listed in our sidebar after our rules. For example, the transfem community on lemmy.blahaj.zone has these resources listed:

• The Gender Dysphoria Bible // In depth explanation of the different types of gender dysphoria.
• LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory // A directory of LGBTQ+ accepting Healthcare providers.
• Trans Resistance Network // A mutual aid organization to help trans people facing state violence and legal discrimination.
• TLDEF's Trans Health Project // Advice about insurance claims for trans healthcare procedures.
• TransLifeLine's ID change Library // A comprehensive guide to changing your name on any US legal document.

Another that comes to my mind is The Trevor Project.

Thoughts? Yea, nay? Any suggestions on what to include or leave off if we do post a list?

Hey, everyone! I'm happy to announce that !egg_irl is starting to take off now that we've moved instances. If you have eggy memes to post, or would like to see more eggy memes, or just want your feed flooded with more trans goodness, we'd be delighted to have you join us. Please find us at our new home on lemmy.blahaj.zone or search for https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/egg_irl if that link doesn't work on your instance.

Many thanks to your mod @bunnygirl for permission to post this here and for our swanky new logo!

At the moment, I've taken the rules that were in place on r/egg_irl as a starting point for our community. You can find them, tweaked for Lemmy (edit: and updated according to early feedback below), in the sidebar. Unfortunately, the r/egg_irl wiki is not accessible during the blackout, and it was not archived in the Wayback Machine, so we'll have to wait a bit to get the full versions.

There are, however, four potential changes that I'd appreciate community input on:

Scope

Nominally, r/egg_irl was for memes about being an egg, but a lot of the posts were just about things that eggs and omelettes could relate to. Do we want to update the community description to reflect that broader scope?

Content Warnings

Lemmy does not have post flairs at the moment, and I know it's going to be important that people can filter out content that would cause dysphoria. As a stop-gap, I would like to propose that posts assuming the gender of the viewer be required to be spoilered and be marked with a square-brackets tag [CW: Assumes Viewer is …] at the start of the post title. Similarly for posts that discuss violence, transphobia, etc. That won't be enough to support filtering, but hopefully it would help people avoid clicking through to content they don't want to see. Thoughts?

Also, while discussing post flairs, do we want to go further and ask all posts to be tagged [Transmasc Meme], [Transfem Meme], [Nonbinary Meme], etc.?

Pronouns

Lemmy does not have user flairs either, so there's no good way to know commenters' pronouns at a glance. Do we want to have a recommendation (I don't think we could make it a rule) that commenters list their pronouns in their user profile?

It was also nice that people could flair themselves as questioning, cracked, etc., but I don't that that's the kind of thing everyone wants to make as visible across Lemmy as being in their profile, so I don't have a good suggestion for replicating that feature.

Image Descriptions

One thing that I think we could improve on versus r/egg_irl is accessibility and searchabilty. (I at least had trouble finding old memes back on Reddit since every post is titled so similarly.) I have tentatively added

10. If possible, include an image description for accessibility.

to the sidebar, but there is a cost because it takes time to manually type up an image description, as well as a risk that people won't write good descriptions. Are we okay with this being in the rules? Do we want to make it a hard requirement?

Image description: A four-panel meme. In the first row, the left panel shows an illustration of a nonbinary person frowning with their head turned away and their hand held up in refusal, while the right panel, that they are refusing, has text reading "Voice training to sound more like your actual gender and less like your AGAB." In the second row, the left panel shows the same person smiling and pointing at the final panel in recommendation, while that final panel shows an illustration of Blåhaj with its fins raised in excitement in front of blazing fire and the text "Voice training to pronounce 'Blåhaj' with a proper Swedish accent!"

Template courtesy of @stgiga@lemmy.blahaj.zone, available at https://stgiga.github.io/gigaware/5box.png.

Blåhaj image is the instance icon from lemmy.blahaj.zone.

Image description: A four-panel meme. In the first row, the left panel shows an illustration of a nonbinary person frowning with their head turned away and their hand held up in refusal, while the right panel, that they are refusing, has text reading "Choosing a Lemmy instance based on interests, language, and region." In the second row, the left panel shows the same person smiling and pointing at the final panel in recommendation, while that final panel shows the icon for lemmy.blahaj.zone, an illustration of Blåhaj with its fins raised in excitement in front of blazing fire and the text "Choosing a Lemmy instance based on how excited their Blåhaj is!"

Template courtesy of @stgiga@lemmy.blahaj.zone, available at https://stgiga.github.io/gigaware/5box.png.

Blåhaj image is the instance icon from lemmy.blahaj.zone.

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Choose an instance that matches your interests, language, and region. (If you want more information about an instance, you can tap its "Join" button, which will show you its current homepage in the main view and its description in the sidebar. You can also check the tables here and here.) Please avoid joining instances that are already crowded (1K+ users/month). If an instance gets overcrowded, it can start running slowly or experiencing downtime, so choosing an uncrowded instance will give both you and others a better Lemmy experience.

Once you have decided on an instance, tap its "Join" button to open it and then tap "Sign Up" in the upper-right corner. Fill out the form and wait for your account to be approved.

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How to Find and Subscribe to Communities

There are four ways to find communities through Lemmy:

1. To browse communities that others in your instance are already subscribed to, tap the "Communities" tab at the top of the page and choose the "All" scope. Tapping on a community name will open it through your instance.

2. To browse communities across all instances, visit https://browse.feddit.de/. Tapping on the community's name will open it, but probably not through your instance (in which case the page will say that you are not logged in). Instead, follow these steps:

   a. Copy the community's URL or remote name. You can use the copy button next to the community name, you can open the community outside your instance and copy the URL from your address bar, or you can open the community outside your instance and copy the remote name (which will look like [!community@instance.tld](/c/community@instance.tld)) from the sidebar.

   b. In your instance, tap on the "🔍 Search" button in the upper toolbar.

   c. Make sure that you have chosen "All" for each of the four filters: "Type", "Scope", "Community", and "Creator".

   d. Paste the community's URL or remote name into the search field and tap "Search".

   e. One of the results should be the community shown as an icon, a name, and a subscriber count. If you do not see it, or it is buried too deep in the search results, try changing "Scope" to "Local". If that does not work, you may need to wait a bit and try again.

   f. Tap on the community in the search results to open it in your instance.

3. If you want an experience similar to Reddit's r/all, visit https://lemmy.directory/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/Hot/page/1, which aggregates from these communities as described here. As in Option 2, you can copy and search for a community's URL to open it in your instance and subscribe to it.

4. If you don't see a community by browsing, subscribe to https://lemmy.ml/c/findacommunity and make a post about what you're looking for.

Once a community is open in your instance, subscribe to it by tapping on the "Subscribe" button at the top of the sidebar. It will then appear in the "Subscribed" section of your "Communities" tab, and its posts will show on your home feeds.

Can't find a community you're looking for? If your instance allows it, you can create the community yourself by tapping "Create Community" in the upper toolbar.