Due to multiple factors, such as unaddressed ableist removals from the /c/196 moderators, defense of chasers, no-quarter rules regarding our users, leakage of good-faith DMs from our admin team, and a general lack of initiative to punish these behaviors, we have come to the conclusion that the 196 community on lemmy.blahaj.zone has made the fediverse an unsafe space for our queer, disabled, neurodivergent, non-western, and other marginalized comrades on this forum, and we will be defederating from lemmy.blahaj.zone until we can be confident that this will not continue to be an issue.
We have attempted to make good-faith parley with both the instance admin and the comm moderators, but we’ve reached a point which we feel that until these behaviors are addressed by instance administration, we can no longer continue to federate in good-faith while our users are being actively invalidated by a small-but-vocal portion of the forum. Once we are confident that these behaviors have ceased and are unlikely to continue, we are more-than-happy to refederate in the name of queer solidarity.
Thanks for bearing with us :07:
so am i missing something or are the blahaj zone admins just letting that c/196 moderator go clout-drunk with power & fuck the vibes of their whole site lmao
we dwarf the activity of that comm - if that’s what they were after, purging the comm was the way to go.
I hope that this issue will be resolved in the future by the admins of blahaj.zone, they should cut that threat to their own userbase loose ASAP and instead work on actively onboarding trans subreddits instead of that place infested with chaser pests. I would love to see a bigger, unified queer community on lemmy and it hurts me that you had to make this decision, but at the same time i fully, 100% agree that with c/196 around, we couldn’t maintain the safe space that this site has been since briefly after its inception when we purged the r/stupidpol crowd to make this more inclusive to our already large queer userbase. There’s a lot of people who’ve helped me throughout my transition, but that list wouldn’t be complete without those of you who made this the place where i could first talk about my gender exploration and experiment with my pronouns. We all owe it to our community to place safety before the desire to dunk on some of the most insufferable libs in the entire fediverse.
a trans instance not banning transphobia just fucking blows my mind. hatred for chasers is something pretty universal amongst trans people.
It all comes down to the mods. You can have the most left wing instance in the world on paper, but if the folks running it are just Black Hammer weirdos…
It is odd because that’s the excuse they gave for defederating our comrades from lemmygrad.ml
I would love to see a bigger, unified queer community on lemmy and it hurts me that you had to make this decision, but at the same time i fully, 100% agree that with c/196 around, we couldn’t maintain the safe space that this site has been since briefly after its inception when we purged the r/stupidpol crowd to make this more inclusive to our already large queer userbase.
Perfectly correct take on this
To clarify further: My problem is not individual users, otherwise a few dedicated wreckers could get every instance defederated. My problem is a provenly toxic moderation policy that openly embraces the fetishistic objectification and harassment of trans people and turns a blind eye to ableism.
Go check their community page. The vast majority of their activity comes from that comm. Like, it’s not even close. This is why the admins there have been handling that chaser nest with kiddie gloves. The entire instance goes black with that comm gone. Typical of liberals, they care more about popularity and clout than principles.
The vast majority of their activity comes from that comm. At this point, /c/196 is Blahaj and Blahaj is /c/196.
Incredibly based. Civility is a two way street, and I didn’t like how we were bowing and scraping to get them to do us the favor of remaining federated. Hopefully some of their cooler users will migrate over
I also wish their Anarcho-Bidenist mod/admin team a very
Hopefully some of their cooler users will migrate over
Me with the “I’m gonna use Kbin because Lemmy’s developed by a tankie” to “I’m gonna use Blåhaj because Kbin can’t moderate transphobia” to “I’m gonna use Hexbear because Blåhaj can’t moderate ableism” pipeline
I am happy to report that this is the only online community I’ve ever been in where a minority of the userbase can raise issues and get them dealt with. it took some struggle the first time but we’re very proud of the strong anti-bigotry stance we’ve collectively settled on, made all the stronger because it comes out of users, mods, and admins doing self-crit when these issues are brought forward.
Tankie is a bullshit term anyways, in the end all that means is that we’ll militantly defend one another and fight for a better world instead of rolling over and allowing norms and civility to bog us down in reactionary quagmire.
I know the term was originally used to refer to rolling tanks into Belarus, but like 90% of people on this site’s parents weren’t even born when that happened so nah.
Just know that sometimes you need to exercise power to protect yourself, and the way we do it here is very much “mass line” style where the users dictate action to the moderation and administration teams. With the role of administrators and moderators being to defend the community from reactionaries and step in to resolve internal conflict in the most democratic way possible.
didn’t like how we were bowing and scraping to get them to do us the favor of remaining federated.
Preach, this shit’s been obnoxious
Yeah that’s what we’re happy about. Until today the official stance from admins and mods had been appeasement. No linking to their posts, no tagging them, etc. etc.
All to appease these anti-communist doomscrollers that were always going to have a problem with us, and whose anti-communist attitudes would always give fash a way in. Nice of them to go mask off so soon.
We are the larger instance, with a larger queer community. We don’t need them. I guess I don’t get the point of your reply
A preëmptive strike by chapo.chat… I did not expect this.
I dunno, I think it’s pretty neat how it’s capitalized as “IJsselmeer” because ⟨ij⟩ is seen as inseperable.
