Update: In light of the programming.dev update here https://programming.dev/post/8399272, the defederation is no longer going ahead.

However, something more needs to be said. Even here on Blahaj, some of our users took issue with the choice to defederate over this issue.

So I would like to give some background and context.

Blahaj Zone exists, because both Kaity and I left mainstream social media to escape transphobia. Reddit, with its lackluster approach to fighting transphobia, and twitter, with its outright celebration of transphobia pushed us here, to the fediverse, and to create Blahaj Zone and Blahaj Lemmy.

To that end, we will continue to treat transphobia seriously. Our goal is to create a space where gender diverse folk can exist and let our defenses down a little, where we don’t have to worry about getting dragged in to an argument with a transphobe, or a bad faith actor “just asking questions”.

If you are looking for a more reddit like experience, where in the interest of increased engagement, we let low level transphobia slide, and push responsibility for dealing with it on to community mods and individual users, then you will likely not be happy with blahaj going forward. If you choose to stay here, understand that we may defederate again in the future over similar issues.

The choice is yours.

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It has recently been brought to my attention that the lead admin of programming.dev is engaging in ongoing transphobia.

You can see the conversation in question here https://programming.dev/comment/6131539

For that reason we will be defederating from programming.dev in 48 hours.

There are only three communities on that instance used by small number of our users, so this won’t have a big impact, but if you are one of those users, you will need to use an alt account on another instance if you wish to access the communities.

  • Serinus@lemmy.world
    11·
    9 months ago

    From what I see, he seems childish more than anything about “MAP Pride”. He argued for jailing people who harm children.

    And he got banned for it. That’s a far, far thing from an instance endorsing “MAP Pride”.

    Find me an instance of someone being Transphobic that isn’t just “ignoring” pronouns in someone’s flair on Lemmy.world, and I’ll ban them myself. And I’ll have a talk with the mods of that community if needed. And yes, I’ll ban for intentional misuse of pronouns, but it’s gotta be pretty blatant and not just flair.

    I’m pretty tired of Reddit mods who get offended and ban anyone who argues with them. If you’re biased, you should recuse yourself. People with power should have a higher bar for their actions than others.