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As posted about recently in !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works and !fediverselore@lemmy.ca it seems that @nutomic@lemmy.ml's stance on transphobia has not changed and his apology only seems to be that he was sorry he got caught and that someone leaked the DM. This is concerning for an admin of Lemmy.ml and the leader of the project. I don't think this means we should stop using Lemmy, it's open-source and even if they embed donation links, they can be stripped out in our fork. But it does make me wonder if we should consider defederating lemmy.ml on that merit. Since if they hold such views on trans issues, it's very likely they won't have any desire to act on that type of transphobia being expressed on their instance.

I know that Lemmy.ml has and does handle overt transphobia well, but I can't speak to their ability to handle less overt or thinly veiled transphobia, and this incident doesn't inspire much confidence either.

Edit: Since some people haven't seen the original. I decided to include it here. Warning, it contains transphobia, if you don't want to see that, don't open the spoiler.

CW: Transphobic talking points

I'd really like to hear Feedback from Blahaj's local community on this, I'm not as interested in outside opinions here so please try to refrain from top-level commenting if you aren't from lemmy.blahaj.zone (I will ignore them if you comment anyway from a remote instance).

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org -5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Did you contact their mods or admins? They should have an opportunity to administer appropriate action first. Then, if they are ok with this bullshit, de-fed.

Meanwhile, may I endorse a cool shirt that people might want to wear this summer:

https://www.punkwithacamera.com/products/chaos-marine-trans-people-existing-does-nothing-negative-to-your-life-you-cry-baby-bitch-40k-gutter-press?_pos=3&_sid=9fae89d95&_ss=r

[–] FirstMajesticComet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nutomic is one of the head admins on Lemmy.ml, there are others as well but he's one of the two in charge of the whole place.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago

Well, in that case, fuck 'em.

[–] mikezeman@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is their admin, and also one of the lead developers of Lemmy.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

The other comment that identified them as an admin disappointed me but this one makes me sad.