Due to recent concerns surrounding feddit.uk’s enforcement (or lack thereof) of policies against transphobia, and lemmy.blahaj.zone’s unilateral defederation of that instance, it’s clear we need to take action in order to protect our users.
For context, please see the following threads:
feddit.uk has been defederated (via blahaj)
Emperor (feddit.uk admin)'s response
Hexbear thread with further context and discussion
Seeing as the feddit moderation team’s policies clearly do not align with our own stances on transphobia, bigotry, and reactionary rhetoric generally, we are considering two different options, with feedback requested for whichever route you would prefer (NOTE: we are primarily concerned with how trans users and other marginalized groups feel):
- Unilaterally defederate from feddit.uk due to lax enforcement of rules against transphobia and their admin citing the recent UK anti-trans court ruling as one of the reasons for this
- Remain federated with the instance at large while banning their admins, mods and any transphobic users, along with those who violate Hexbear CoC generally (the same way we handled issues with dbzero a while back)
We want to communicate these discussions we’ve been having behind the scenes to the userbase at large and allow those most impacted to give their input on how to proceed. Please give any feedback below.
- first to make their admins seethe
24 hours later because it’s the right thing to do for our usersI like this it is fun
we should not dunk at the expense of our own users, but you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take
- The situation for my trans siblings in the UK is absolutely dire rn. When the courts and the governments are out to strip them off their rights, they need solidarity, not backstabbing. Reacting to these developments by an internal discussion if transphobia should now be allowed on the instance means the admins have already chosen barbarism.
Yeah, absolutely despicable shit from the feddit.uk admins.
It should go without saying that there was no need for a discussion for our instance. Hexbear admins were already in unilateral agreement that transphobic content isn’t acceptable.
Reacting to these developments by an internal discussion if transphobia should now be allowed on the instance means the admins have already chosen barbarism.
My vote is also
and quite frankly I see this problem in the other option.As the old saying goes, if there’s ten people dining with a Nazi at the table, there are eleven Nazis at the table. If you’re choosing to say on the transphobia instance…
I dont think we should be taking into account whatever blahaj does before making our own deciaions, but i also dont think we need to discuss defederating from an instance chock full of loosely moderated reactionaries
'ate transphobes
'ate the UK
'ate blood sauage
love my comrades
Simple as
No one in the world should ever have to speak to a British person
why not use this emotes instead so we dont over use dean too much?
defederate feddit.UK keep federation and ban their admins. mods and transphobic usersDone
- No more half measures, walter
down for whatever, but i’d also like to forward a relentless bullying campaign as an option until we do whatever it is we do
for funsies
Critical support to any comrade that does this
My criticism is of course out of concern for their mental health after seeing the responses
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I’m called enough slurs as it is already
They don’t ban the transphobes.
If, at some point, they stop treating transphobia like a moral dilemma and have a track record of moderating it right away, maybe we can reconsider
If even blajah can’t tolerate them they have no business being federated with us
I am not a member of any marginalized group but i want to defederate from as many instances as possible.
I’m not voting, but I just wanna say, in a reasonable society, opposing someone’s rights would get you beat up
I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of them on our local comms so I don’t really care to weigh in one way or another.
I will say having someone in a position of authority with the name “Emperor” is incredibly sauceless. If you’re in control of something online your name should either be like “Dave” or “Weepo Gleepo”
It’s called TERF Island for a reason. Make them paddle if they want to leave
