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

submitted 21 hours ago by ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/main@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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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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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 21 minutes ago

Thank you, Ada

[–] trannus_aran@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 hour 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

[–] OctaviaMeowzly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Ada trying not to slay challenge (Impossible)

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours 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.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 19 points 5 hours ago

Terf island strikes again!

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 5 hours ago

hard mode: uk stop being transphobic for two seconds.

[–] 0x0f@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 7 hours ago

thanks ada uwu

[–] driving_crooner 19 points 7 hours 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.

[–] honeynut@lemm.ee -3 points 2 hours ago (1 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

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.

[–] VasovagalSyncope@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Based for defederating from feddit

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

[–] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 hours 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.

[–] mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works 1 points 47 minutes ago

Notice the 4chan based/cringe trope and they're from .world 🎣

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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!

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 13 points 9 hours ago (1 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?

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours 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.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 hours 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.

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 hour ago

Good point! Thank you!

[–] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 11 hours ago

Common Ada W

[–] jac@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 13 hours ago

As a denizen of terf island myself, all I can say is; fucking good! Our enemies hide behind statements like "just asking questions", but there's no room for debate when it comes to people's rights and look where that thinking has gotten us.

The time for debate is over. I want my rights back.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 13 hours ago

Based Blåhaj admin is based.

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 12 hours ago

Disappointing to hear from the feddit.uk. Hopefully they get their shit together, i like their admins.

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