Meta: For the sake of mutual aid with Blajah and my sanity, no more posts about Blajah's moderation policies please.
Meta: For the sake of mutual aid with Blajah and my sanity, no more posts about Blajah's moderation policies please.
I'm gonna get real with you folks, we've had way too many of these posts recently. I've been reflecting on this topic a lot the past few days. For me personally, I couldn't care less about my gender identity. But just because that's true for me, doesn't make that true for everyone.
The beauty of the fediverse is that if you don't like the way a particular instance or community is moderated you can simply choose another to hang out on, or create your own.
Blajah has made it pretty clear by now they will ban anyone who argues against the validity of xenogenders, in order to create a safe space for those folks. That's fair enough imo.
Safe spaces should be respected, and Blajah's admins/mods do not deserve abuse for creating and maintaining those spaces.
I can completely understand why Blajah users don't want to have to constantly argue with external users about the validity of their chosen identities. Bans are one way Blajah has decided to manage that problem so that their users can experience lemmy in relative peace and safety. While it is a blunt tool and I have my reservations about preemptive bans, there are not many other options for @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone, other than defederation from most instances. That would be a terrible outcome for the fediverse as a whole.
In order to help Blajah to maintain their safe space, I would like to propose, if @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com agrees and community sentiment is positive:
- that we no longer accept posts about this topic in this community; and
- we also remove previous posts on this topic from the community.
That's all folks, have at 'er.
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Its not ur choice as to if a mod is a BTB. The community gets to decide that. This post itself is a PTB kind of move ngl.
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It is if they ultimately decide that it's just simply being used to bellyache about transphobia or fascism. In which case it diminishes the validity of the community. If you still want to do that, Gab and truthsocial are that way.
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It's their choice whether they want to entertain the exact same conversation over and over again, in ways that create needless drama with some other instance, an instance which doesn't seem to mean any harm.
I would support this move on db0's part. It's not about blahaj, it's about db0.
Edit: You know what? My viewpoint doesn't need to be rehashed in this comment.
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It’s their choice whether they want to entertain the exact same conversation over and over again, in ways that create needless drama with some other instance, an instance which doesn’t seem to mean any harm.
Uh, considering recent events, where Blahaj defenders dogpiled a trans person on another instance for disagreeing with them, you sure about that
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Oh, certain users on blahaj definitely mean harm. I'm not trying to give anyone a free pass on toxic behavior because they belong to the "correct" grouping, although I know that claiming those passes is a real popular activity. I'm talking more about the original intent of the instance.
Even the "dragon is a gender, we'll ban you if you disagree" "disagreeing with me is transphobia ALWAYS because I say it is" stuff, I want to give some level of benefit-of-the-doubt about. I kind of think the original intent of blahaj was good, and it's now been hijacked by people who love causing drama and being the righteous attacker against someone who they've been able to define as "bad." I'm just saying I don't think feeding the flames is necessarily a good activity even when the complaint is legitimate. I feel very differently about some instances where it seems like the core admin team is part of the deliberate trolling and bad-faith behavior.
Maybe I am wrong and missed something. I have not been keeping close attention on it.
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I disagree with the core issue of a topic ban on YPTB, but I respect your arguments.
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