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.
Registration on this instance is clear enough about what this instance is about, and this move is perfectly in line with it. The post isn't even for you.
Notice the 4chan based/cringe trope and they're from .world 🎣
Scrolling through this thread, I don't see any blahajis with less than full approval. If there are, they are more than welcome to show their disapproval by moving to a different instance.
I appreciate this sort of moderation. Imagine if somehow it was voted down: then people who don't want to be federated with feddit.uk would have no options. "Posting proof" may have some benefit, but few of us want to tread through more transphobia, so that sounds like a net negative to me.
This is precisely how things should work. Way to go, Ada!
It's pretty funny watching tourists who aren't using blahaj (or even feddit.uk) crying out that this doesn't fit their ideals. This instance is clear about its purpose, and this moderation is perfectly in line with that goal. There's no need for hypotheticals, because like you said, this was received almost-or-fully unanimously.
I really thought I had created my account there. I will move over at some point. Edit: I also like the openness of the decision."We took this action. No, it is not up for discussion." We can laugh at the tourists. Anyone with a heartfelt disagreement can act as they see fit, and everyone else can go about their business.
Of course some of them are clueless, but others see marginalized people protecting themselves as an attack on them.
As with all rule changes on blahaj, the consensus comes from the ones who weren't banned...
What are the odds these "disagreements" are actually just transphobia wearing a mask? Plenty of us disagree with Ada. We're still here.
Most disagreements are filed under "Gatekeeping" and banned by blahaj admins.
Most Gatekeeping bans are not for Gatekeeping, or for breaking any other rules.
That's wild because I've disagreed with Ada on multiple decisions and I've never been banned... I wonder what the people who got banned were saying?
Was anyone in particular banned for disagreeing with defederating, or are we just making up things to be mad about?