Updated - programming.dev defederation on hold - Blåhaj Lemmy
lemmy.blahaj.zone
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.

  • Kayn
    27•2 years ago

    I don’t think post titles in this community should include personal bias.

    “lemmy.blahaj.zone admin announces defederation from programming.dev because of controversial comments made by their admin” would have been better and much more factual.

      • Kayn
        10•2 years ago

        Cambridge Dictionary defines “controversial” as “causing disagreement or discussion”. The admin’s comments did just that, so objectively speaking they are controversial.

          • Kayn
            14•2 years ago

            That’s your opinion, which I’m saying should be excluded from the post title.

            • @CJOtheReal@ani.socialOP
              3•2 years ago

              Its not a opinion, the stuff you wrote makes it seem like the blahaj admin has a case or anything besides a powertripp about a game.

              • Kichae
                9•2 years ago

                Their cause is “their website, their rules”. They really don’t need to justify what other independent websites they share content with.

                • @CJOtheReal@ani.socialOP
                  2•2 years ago

                  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.

        • @awwwyissss@lemm.ee
          2•2 years ago

          Is helping sick babies controversial? I bet I could find someone who thinks we shouldn’t help sick babies.

          • Kayn
            5•2 years ago

            Do let me know if you find someone like that.

  • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
    6•2 years ago

    I kinda thought the ‘cissie’ name-calling was a little obstructive to proper conversation. I get that some people are really offended by the ‘cis’ name, and I’m not sure the writer didn’t choose that jeer intentionally because of that.

  • syd
    14•2 years ago

    Nah their admin is drama queen. Unfortunately being trans doesn’t makes your decisions automatically right and everyone else transphobic.

    I’m not talking about this particular case and I think their defederation from Lemmy NSFW was also stupid.

    • PugJesus
      3•2 years ago

      I’m not talking about this particular case and I think their defederation from Lemmy NSFW was also stupid.

      … wasn’t that over loli/shota stuff?

    • sab
      15•2 years ago

      The nice thing about the Fediverse is that people can go forum shopping. Blåhaj is an instance that chooses to defederate too much rather than too little, making sure to create a safe space even if this safe space is smaller. That’s between them and their users. As long as there are users who appreciate this approach to moderation, it’s good for the Fediverse that such an instance exists.

  • @Fizz@lemmy.nz
    7•2 years ago

    Looking at the comment thread and seeing that it’s all hexbear users makes me think whatever he said was justified.

    • @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
      6•2 years ago

      Kind of fucked up reasoning, but you’re not wrong, it was pretty harmless, but the point of blahaj is specifically to be a trans space, no matter how small that ends up being so…

      Good luck, I guess.

    • @CJOtheReal@ani.socialOP
      2•2 years ago

      He didn’t even say anything bad or transpobic, just played a game and made a post that ot won a award…

  • Kalash
    3•2 years ago

    This must be the most pathetic reason for defedaration I’ve ever seen.