cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/25042034

This post is “FYI only” for blahaj lemmy members. It is not a debate, and is not intended for non blahaj lemmy users to weigh in and offer opinions.

I recently received reports of a feddit.uk user espousing transphobia. Specifically, this was a feddit.uk user refusing to use the word cis, repeating the “adult human female” dog whistle, and claiming that trans women are not women. I approached a member of the feddit.uk admin team and raised my concerns and sought clarification of their stance on posts like this, where the transphobia is mostly dogwhistles, and “civil disagreement” on the validity of trans folk.

I was told by the feddit.uk admin that their preferred response is this kind of transphobia is to “sort it out through discussion and voting”. However, the comments in question are currently more upvoted than downvoted, and little “sorting out” has occurred. The posts remain in place.

At this point, the admin stopped responding to my messages despite being active elsewhere on lemmy. When it became clear they were ignoring my messages and had no intention of removing the posts in question, I made the decision to defederate the instance.

I know some folk agree with the feddit.uk admins approach of pushback through discussion and voting, but this instance is not designed to be that kind of space. Blahaj lemmy is meant to be a place where we can avoid the rampant transphobia universally visible on nearly every other social media platform, and where we can exist without needing to debate our right to do so.

    • Squiggles1212@lemmy.nz
      12·
      5 hours ago

      I’ll be honest, that definitely doesn’t sound like an abuse of mod powers to me. She acted on those who tried to incite violence against people with money. Lemmy has the worst reputation of all time across the web, with even Tumblr blocking most fediverse links, and the worst thing one can discourage is the occasional reasonable opinion on here. The admins probably asked her to do it, and whatever happened upon her defending Musk seems to make the same mindset crystal clear.

      Modlogs lie too, and admins overreact. Look at the OP. That’s the whole point here. Are you telling me you’ve never been banned from another website for reasons that didn’t apply to you? I don’t agree with everything she says, but she is right to take it all with a grain of salt, and the fact she said so was spoken in a way that proves all her points.

        • Squiggles1212@lemmy.nz
          12·
          4 hours ago

          Tomorrow I will have joined 7 days ago. And the day after that, 8 days ago.

          Yet this is the thread I woke up to today. I could’ve woken up to it yesterday if I knew it would please ya.