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.
Bubble, echo chamber, besieged fortress syndrome... Combined they make what Ada envisions the blahaj.zone to be.
I mean what the fuck, just ban the person you don't like.
Agreed. It's like they want to live in a bubble. Astonishing how the disconnection from reality doesn't hit them.
you didn't read shit did you? these folks have the absolute right not to have to constantly argue to justify their existence. until the shit heels of society catch up then they damn right should be in a bubble that those of us who give a damn about human rights are more than willing to respect and protect.
What bubble? How which disconnect from reality doesn't hit whom? Go on, be specific.
'Cause I'm inclined to believe you nutters are trapped in a bubble of believing that any group of people who doesn't like having you around is in actuality some sort of echo chamber that it's your god-given right, nay, duty to disrupt. It's kinda embarrassing tbh.
Funny how the cries of censorship always seem to come from people who don't actually care about the topic and just want to be edgy debate perverts for the sake of it. Heaven forbid a group of trans people have a space where we don't have to justify our existence.