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submitted 5 months ago by ada to c/birding@lemmy.world

Clayfield, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia - April 2025

#bird #brisbane #meanjin #honeyEater #noisyMiner #manorinaMelanocephala #manorina #australianBirds

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submitted 6 months ago by ada to c/drones@lemmy.world

I have to admit, I'm pretty excited. The 100MP main camera is nice and all, but that 50MP telephoto lens is what I'm really excited about!

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submitted 6 months ago by ada to c/main

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.

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submitted 6 months ago by ada to c/birding@lemmy.world

Buddina, Sunshine Coast, Australia - April 2025

#bird #australianBirds #brushTurkey #scrubTurkey #Alectura #AlecturaLathami

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Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by ada to c/birding@lemmy.world

Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia - April 2025

#bird #birds #AustralianBirds #swan #blackSwan #Cygnus #CygnusAtratus

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submitted 6 months ago by ada to c/birding@lemmy.world

Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia - April 2025

#bird #birds #swallow #WelcomeSwallow #AustralianBirds #Hirundo #HirundoNeoxena

[-] ada 144 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There's no such thing as "lazy". It's always, always, always a word used to make someone feel guilty for hitting a personal limit or threshold.

Even if you want to work on those thresholds and improve them, you can achieve that without framing yourself as fundamentally selfish and uncaring.

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submitted 6 months ago by ada to c/birding@lemmy.world

Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia - April 2025

#meanjin #brisbane #spoonbill #royalSpoonBill #bird #birds #australianBirds #Platalea #PlataleaRegia

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DM Spam (self.main)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by ada to c/main

The wonderful @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone has developed a script to help deal with DM spam.

With this script, when a user is permabanned, DMs sent from the account in the previous 24 hours will automatically be marked as deleted.

We have set the time to 24 hours to ensure that the majority of pre-existing (non spam) DMs are preserved in the event of an account being banned. That being said, if you lose a DM to this script that you need recovered, please reach out to myself or Kaity, and we can restore it manually for you!

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submitted 7 months ago by ada to c/birding@lemmy.world

Clayfield, Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia - March 2025

#bird #birds #AustralianBirds #ButcherBird #CracticusTorquatus #Cracticus

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Test 2 (self.meta)
submitted 7 months ago by ada to c/meta@pridehaven.social

Testing

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submitted 7 months ago by ada to c/birding@lemmy.world

Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Australia - March 2025

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submitted 7 months ago by ada to c/birding@lemmy.world

Tiritiri Matangi, Aotearoa/New Zealand - February 2025

[-] ada 128 points 8 months ago

That's an instance ban. Instance bans automatically issue community bans for local communities the user has been active in.

[-] ada 131 points 8 months ago

I just saw a report on it and I've removed the post.

[-] ada 114 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm disappointed that the majority of top level replies to this post is a bunch of people deciding to jump in and question its validity. Yeah, it may not be true. But it also could be true, because bigots feel empowered at the moment and may well act in the way described even if they're not technically "meant" to.

So yes, express caution and don't assume everything you read is true, but conversely don't come in to a queer space, in the middle of an active movement against gender diverse folk, and fill the comment section with denials and second guessing, as if everything is fine and its business as usual, as if people are being unreasonable for being concerned

[-] ada 118 points 10 months ago

Thus, the decentralized platform is rolling out a "more aggressive" policy on parody accounts that aren’t clearly labeled.

If it were decentralised, it wouldn't be possible for the platform to set a network wide policy on parody accounts...

[-] ada 145 points 2 years ago

Trans people

[-] ada 133 points 2 years ago

I don't know about beautiful data. That's scary data :/

[-] ada 111 points 2 years ago

I will defederate from any instance with admins that excuse transphobia. If that makes our part of the Fediverse quite small, that sucks, but it is what it is. I moved here to get away from social media that won't take action on transphobia. I'm not suddenly going to decide it's ok if it means we get more traffic.

[-] ada 124 points 2 years ago

Artificial scarcity (invites) and VC funding

[-] ada 143 points 2 years ago

Unless they start brigading heavily or cross a line in terms of the communities they house, we won't be defederating them.

Their own communities are, quite something, but their admins have told them to be on their best behaviour when engaging in communities outside of their instance, and so far, they seem to be doing that

[-] ada 121 points 2 years ago

I'm the admin :P

[-] ada 156 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just be to clear, the state of the union post was an explanation of coming downtime, not a call for panic :)

We've got the solution and way forward for these issues.

You don't have to move if your main concerns are impact on our resources.

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