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feddit.uk has been defederated (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

Thank you for keeping this community safe, I know this is never an easy decision and the job of moderating is often thankless 🫂 I really appreciate it

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 days ago (6 children)

This is a good move. I've reported a lot of tankie-like remarks on feddit that never get their comments removed and it's concerning. Better to cut off any suspected tankie incubator than suffer the consequences

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (21 children)

I'd rather my comm ban people that complain about 'tankies'. It's a useless term which can mean 100 things to different people, only serving really to divide the left.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Thanks again for all the work you do for this community. It does mean the world.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ada trying not to slay challenge (Impossible)

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I appreciate this move. The nice thing about the Fediverse is that admins can take a step like this to protect the integrity of this instance, and users can still engage with that stuff if they create an account on another instance. I'll continue to argue with bigots elsewhere but I'm grateful for how the admins curate Blahaj Lemmy.

It's a shame how the UK seems to be heading backwards on human rights, and shameful how the UK government has decided to throw in with the bigots and embolden them.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago

Terf island strikes again!

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 days ago

hard mode: uk stop being transphobic for two seconds.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Based for defederating from feddit

Cringe for another decision that effects all blahaj users without their consent without posting any proof.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

thanks ada uwu

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago

I'm coming from a small brazillian instance and we're also getting attacks on the brazillian trans community, on our case is the medical association, dictating that doctors couldn't treat trans kids.

I asked my admin to support you and to de federate them until they change their policy, hope other instances join too.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Censorship lmao. I get where you're coming from, but pulling a ostrich with your head in the sand is not a productive way to go about it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Is it censorship for someone to kick you out of their house for being an asshole?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Hey sounds like you should use feddit.uk as your main and share your opinion there where it will be received.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Go fuck yourself as well. Kindly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Looking at your account history it's mostly just you raging and swearing at people. Take a look yourself.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

If Lemmy were a centralized platform, then sure. It is not, therefore no single instance can be reasonably accused of censorship. If you feel censored by your instance, then you're free to make as many new accounts on other instances as you want and avoid the offending instance.

This isn't censorship, this is a community of people deciding they don't want to hear the same bullshit they hear everywhere else on the internet in their own home.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (5 children)

trans women are not women

Wasn't this a recent court ruling in the UK? Which isn't great.

I don't know all of the terminology, but the entire argument over it just seems so stupid, how does letting trans people exist bother you in any way?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yes, but the best thing is that it's not, like they are claiming, law. It is merely an interpretation. It doesn't stop us from doing anything we were doing previously though ultimately a lot of transphobes and business will inteprate it that way, sadly. Plus there is some whisperings of it meaning certain legal things but it isn't that yet. The Equality Act needs to be updated anyway and if it was this would make the supreme court's ruling null and void.

Even if it does mean new laws most of us will probably break them anyway as unjust laws are not worth paying any attention to.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

For a positive perspective on it the equality act doesn't stop you including more groups than it specifies. So society can advance without needing the government to keep up, as long as enough of society agrees that can allow putting pressure on businesses when they don't keep up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Good point! Thank you!

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