Update: In light of the programming.dev update here
https://programming.dev/post/8399272 [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. ====== 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
[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.
The admin banned people for saying that calling everything transpobia isn’t the way to make you seem reasonable and all non blahaj TLC get removed by default.
That’s pretty idiotic in case of a federated service. you can just close registration and delete the user database so nobody can do anything “anti trans” on your instance if you act like a child on such hilariously small issues.
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Their cause is “their website, their rules”. They really don’t need to justify what other independent websites they share content with.
That’s pretty idiotic in case of a federated service. you can just close registration and delete the user database so nobody can do anything “anti trans” on your instance if you act like a child on such hilariously small issues.