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

submitted 1 day 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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[–] druellambass@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Oh man, that's truly disheartening to see, especially how I noticed a lot more people that are being just unnecessarily mean 😟

Thank you for taking the appropriate steps to deal with this 😄

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

Thank you Ada and mods. It's too easy to manipulate discussion and voting, which is why safe spaces were created.

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

If instances aren't willing to moderate themselves when it comes to transphobia they should get the boot. I hope more instances defederate feddit.uk over this. Might make them change course and rethink if they should maybe moderate better.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 11 hours ago

Transphobia has no place on anything I use. I may not be one of the folks on your instance, but I still appreciate the good work.

[–] obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 12 hours ago

Thank you for taking real direct action on issues like this. It keeps our community safe.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 16 points 12 hours ago

slay 💜💅🏻

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

How did a transphobic comic get positive votes on lemmy?

[–] will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Unfortunately some kinds of transphobia gets upvoted now and then because cis people don't always understand what we're going through and what is hurtful or oppressive. Some people just have this stance that others should take things even if they have no understanding of what it's like to actually be the victim of systemic/societal discrimination.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 14 hours ago

Thank you, Ada

[–] trannus_aran@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 15 hours 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 31 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Ada trying not to slay challenge (Impossible)

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 19 hours ago

hard mode: uk stop being transphobic for two seconds.

[–] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

💙🦈

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 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 31 points 19 hours ago

Terf island strikes again!

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 17 hours ago

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

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