We (fedi) love to act like we're so much better than other platforms, but this same exact thing would absolutely happen here. Fedi has a culture of drama, callouts, and cancellation that's at least as strong as Twitter's. And in my experience, fedi is far more trigger-happy with it.

A single critical tweet about the matter was not experienced by Isabel Fall as just one tweet. She experienced it as part of a tsunami that nearly took her life. And that tsunami might have been abated if people had simply asked themselves, “What’s the worst that could happen if I’m right? And what’s the worst that could happen if I’m wrong?”

Isabel Fall was on a path to living as an out trans woman with a career writing science fiction, and now, she says, there will be no more Isabel Fall stories. She is done writing under that name, and she now considers “Isabel Fall” an impossible goal to achieve, a person she will never be.