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.
It’s called TERF Island for a reason. Make them paddle if they want to leave
If even blajah can’t tolerate them they have no business being federated with us
- but trans women are the ones getting the vast majority of abuse and if the ladies wanna tussle i’m down to tussle
I’m not voting, but I just wanna say, in a reasonable society, opposing someone’s rights would get you beat up
:ukkk:
(i’m trans fyi)
I’m trans; I say fuck 'em
- if they defederate from us for being pro-trans, that looks worse for them than us preemptively defederating. Now we know to agitate around that specific issue and it’s a good time to confront britishers in their home threads. I’m fine either way but think we could do something funny which makes them show their ass+hair more.
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”
- ukkk is yuk
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
As much as it would be nice to have around for the few posts that are relevent to me I’m gonna hae to go with
just because of the excuse. Not only does the court case change nothing, but even if it did they should be enforcing their current anti-transphobia rules until they’ve reached a decision on how to implement it. They aren’t, and are holding up an irrelevent court case as an excuse.I haven’t interacted with that instance much but I’ve enjoyed their movies posts and stuff so far.
Otherwise, I really don’t know much about the issue and I’m not trans so another vote supporting what the majority of our trans comrades want is cool with me.
- transfemme here.
I say try
but the first sign of it not working.
