Due to multiple factors, such as unaddressed ableist removals from the /c/196 moderators, defense of chasers, no-quarter rules regarding our users, leakage of good-faith DMs from our admin team, and a general lack of initiative to punish these behaviors, we have come to the conclusion that the 196 community on lemmy.blahaj.zone has made the fediverse an unsafe space for our queer, disabled, neurodivergent, non-western, and other marginalized comrades on this forum, and we will be defederating from lemmy.blahaj.zone until we can be confident that this will not continue to be an issue.
We have attempted to make good-faith parley with both the instance admin and the comm moderators, but we’ve reached a point which we feel that until these behaviors are addressed by instance administration, we can no longer continue to federate in good-faith while our users are being actively invalidated by a small-but-vocal portion of the forum. Once we are confident that these behaviors have ceased and are unlikely to continue, we are more-than-happy to refederate in the name of queer solidarity.
Thanks for bearing with us :07:
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I hope that this issue will be resolved in the future by the admins of blahaj.zone, they should cut that threat to their own userbase loose ASAP and instead work on actively onboarding trans subreddits instead of that place infested with chaser pests. I would love to see a bigger, unified queer community on lemmy and it hurts me that you had to make this decision, but at the same time i fully, 100% agree that with c/196 around, we couldn’t maintain the safe space that this site has been since briefly after its inception when we purged the r/stupidpol crowd to make this more inclusive to our already large queer userbase. There’s a lot of people who’ve helped me throughout my transition, but that list wouldn’t be complete without those of you who made this the place where i could first talk about my gender exploration and experiment with my pronouns. We all owe it to our community to place safety before the desire to dunk on some of the most insufferable libs in the entire fediverse.
a trans instance not banning transphobia just fucking blows my mind. hatred for chasers is something pretty universal amongst trans people.
It all comes down to the mods. You can have the most left wing instance in the world on paper, but if the folks running it are just Black Hammer weirdos…
It is odd because that’s the excuse they gave for defederating our comrades from lemmygrad.ml
It’s wild how lemmygrad seemed almost split on us for a bit because we aren’t explicitly Marxist Leninist, but since federation I’m seeing a huge overlap of grad posters here.
Warms my heart really, and shows that even if you do have some made up ideological reservation about people, what really matters is how you are able to interact with one another in mutual defense and education.
I’m seeing a huge overlap of grad posters here.
Won’t somebody think of the vibes!?
Ada’s response is just…
Edit: The ableist mod is still a mod of 196. Nice one, protecting racist people.
Bruh, they said to their mod “Ableism bad” so know that mods knows that they need to refine their ableist beliefs and veil them in language that affords them plausible deniability next time around.
What more can you ask for? An apology??
