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.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    2346·
    2 days ago

    Censorship attempt failed… These people are so fucking annoying. They can’t tell a difference between a discussion and hatred.

    Nothing lost, good for feddit.UK admins for having a back bone.

    Let these children self segregate and jerk each other off within their echo chambers

    We got a class war to fight and corpos to destroy anyway!

            • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              1 hour ago

              No, no, the only thing I expect of you is smugness and condescension. It’s pretty much all you ever do.

              Seriously, go back through your own user history. Read it like someone else would if they stumbled across you randomly. I’m not saying you have to change, but don’t pretend you’re not just running around lemmy swinging dick.

              Everyone has patterns. We all fall into habits, ways of saying things, word choices. Yours are consistently nasty, even when there’s no point to being so.

              Thing is, behind all of that nastiness and condescension seems to be a person with some degree of passion. But it’s buried so deep that it eventually just becomes tiresome to keep trying to find the human in there. It comes off like you’re just trying to fuck with people. If that’s your goal, keep at it. If it isn’t? Maybe slow down some and consider the outcomes of your choices.

      • Skiluros@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        47·
        1 day ago

        How is this relevant?

        Did you read the alleged offending text? It’s not transphobic, let alone Nazi.

          • Skiluros@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            31·
            1 day ago

            Sorry, who is Leni?

            I wouldn’t leave it to just trolling and illegal stuff. Spamming obvious propaganda, shitting up a digital space with dumb bullshit (doesn’t have to political, just distracting and irrelevant), commercial spam, baiting users to piss them off. There are many situations were mod actions are justified.

            But this is definitely not the case.

              • Skiluros@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                31·
                24 hours ago

                Thanks for the context.

                Now I truly understand why the individual was referred to as a clown. 🤣

              • Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                1·
                23 hours ago

                Not sure why you’re bringing me into this. First, I’m not, and never have been, transphobic. My gf is transgender and beautiful. Secondly, I don’t even know this Leni person.

                Feel free to hate me, but do you really have to bring up my name every single time someone says something controversial?

                Besides, I never even did anything controversial except vote for the Socialist candidate instead of Democratic candidate in the election. Only fucking Lemmy would call that controversial.

                I stand by my voting record. You all are obsessed! lol

            • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
              13·
              16 hours ago

              Sorry, who is Leni?

              Someone who has had a mix of things in her past that she regrets but made up for and things that are easy to take out of context or exaggerate (and who has had people follow her everywhere who don’t care which is which because they want to blemish her as much as possible), with many of the examples you were given having been removed by rule enforcers on the basis of going against genuineness, if that serves to indicate you fell for others’ dishonesty.

              • Skiluros@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                32·
                1 day ago

                Got it.

                Yeah, I guess most of what I listed does fall under trolling.

                I just hope other instances don’t follow BLZ on this issue. It is completely unjustified.

                • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
                  31·
                  1 day ago

                  I don’t think you are trolling. You are just off. Hence why I do not support you being censored.

                  You should have the ability to express yourself if this is your real opinions. Content itself is clown grade tho

          • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
            13·
            1 day ago

            In case you haven’t noticed, I’m not relevant to any of this either. You’re the first person to bring me up and what all this hoopla about me right now is based on. I’m not sure how someone is a clown for sticking to values she is always willing to discuss.