Seems like Blahaj is defederating from Feddit.uk due to insufficent moderation of transphobia.
Just normal terf Island things.
The feddit admins have responded in this post:
https://piefed.social/post/691666
This is a good move. I’ve reported a lot of tankie-like remarks on feddit that never get their comments removed and it’s concerning. Better to cut off any suspected tankie incubator than suffer the consequences
So absolutely on-brand for lemm.ee:
Impeccable
Under that, from a dbz0 user:
I’d rather my comm ban people that complain about ‘tankies’. It’s a useless term which can mean 100 things to different people, only serving really to divide the left.
Is it just me, or has dbz taken a noticeable turn for the cooler in these last few month?
dbz has always had an almost even split of weirdos and decent people. But they get a lot of influence from the lemm.ee and .world types, so a lot of threads on there go a bad direction. Also their political (and adjacent) communities are overrun by liberals. Their climate and ecology ones don't allow any criticism of Democrats, for example.
Dbz the user is an insufferable debatelord who barely hides their contempt for you while posturing as jaqing off. Who was rightfully banned here around a year ago due to said tendencies (that I may or may not have got them to mask off on).
Dbz the forum is pretty chill. Little to Reddit for my liking, but not terrible.
Hey that's me
I made an account there maybe two years ago, they can generally be alright but a far cry from the glorious posters of hexbear. I only really use it these days to see what's happening on .world and the general lib-sphere that we aren't fedded with.
Blahaj: Goes out of its way to defend chasers and transphobes at the cost of a significant portion of lemmy's trans users
Also Blahaj: Why are we having so many issues with transphobes!
I'm a trans person new on Lemmy but I've felt way more at home here than on Blahaj for reasons i can't put my finger on
I mean this with all sincerity and no disingenuity but can you explain how Blahaj defends chasers and transphobes? The vibes were weird over there
for reasons i can't put my finger on
Communists tend to have principles. We die on some really dumb hills sometimes, but liberals will concede on everything all the time.
I find the sexualisation of trans people on blahaj uncomfortable, and when I still was on there I saw a lot of unmoderated sexism and ableism.
The 196 community in general has weird vibes, I’ve heard that the 196 subreddit has many vaush fans and vaush himself is just a really weird dude who normalises fetishising trans people and drawn child sexual assault material. The lemmy 196 community is a spinoff of the subreddit and the largest community on blahaj (last time I checked). I’ve had discussions with people there who linked to vaush videos as ‘source’ for why it’s ok to behave like a jerk be ableist. I think vaush is a horrible guy and his community is toxic, and some of the main posters and mods on blahaj are part of that toxic community which explains why a lot of the problematic stuff doesn’t get removed.
The majority of the moderation team of /c/196 was cis, which gives you a general idea of how fucked the vibes are at that lemmy instance.
There's been some bad blood since when they were federated and the (old) 196 mods were particularly shitty, example: https://hexbear.net/post/363529/3762934
Since then there's been new 196 mods because the old 196 tried to force-migrate the whole comm to .world.
Blahaj: Goes out of its way to defend chasers and transphobes at the cost of a significant portion of lemmy's trans users
What did they do?
Admins wrote a small summary here explaining the reasons why we defeded from blajah.zone: https://hexbear.net/post/369410
Blahaj: Goes out of its way to defend chasers and transphobes
uh oh, do i need to retract my "based" statement? i dunno enough about blahaj maybe
Guess I’m leaving Feddit.uk then…I’ll see if I can message the mods first.
Edit; I’m leaving cause of the transphobia issue. I might live on TERF Island, but I’m not a TERF.
They said in their instance rules they dont allow transphobia but they are ok with dogwhistles?
i don't really get how all this federating and different instances and stuff works but i do love how they're all connected and all have beef with each other. it's fun.
they're
We're part of this too, comrade
We're the best though.
federated beef is never our fault, other people are wrong.
struggle sessions are a different outdoor cat.
One of this guy’s posts is really flummoxing me:
WTF?!? In over a decade of keeping an eye on transphobic rhetoric, I’ve never seen anyone pull out that kind of move. Transphobes somehow always manage to break my brain in completely new ways.
They're using transwoman instead of trans woman.
This is used to define us as an ideological choice over a biological reality. To them a transwoman is a man identifying as a woman instead of a woman with the medical condition of being trans.
The entire goal of doing this is to push trans people out of medicine.
This was usually just a "mistake" made by well intentioned people up until this ruling but I'm inclined to moderate this behaviour from this point onwards in my online communities and force people onto "trans woman". If they refuse, banned.
It dehumanises trans women. It turns them into things instead of women with a medical condition.
I used to think that people who called out the missing space, even when the writer was obviously not bigoted, were going a bit overboard. But thanks to this anomaly of a transphobe, I can clearly see why this is necessary now.
To them a transwoman is a man identifying as a woman instead of a woman with the medical condition of being trans.
In his next comment he used the phrase: "previously being a biological male and now identifying as a woman", which actually makes me more angry than straight-up calling us men.
Because what thit implies is that, even if there was some magical thing that could turn us completely cis, he would still claim that we aren’t real women because we’ve not always been this way. Just completely othering us.
So it’s kinda nice to at least once see a transphobe acknowledge that we are biologically female, but on the other hand, JUST FUCK THIS GUY, SERIOUSLY!
A woman is an adult female. A transwoman is an adult female
Stunning and I agree completely
This is straight up the same rhetoric white "feminists" had about black women during the early 20th century, transforming adjectives into exclusionary essentialist dogma
His reply to the admin explaining to him how "trans" is an adjective starts off with this: ::: spoiler more transphobia
I don’t use the term cis. I use the term woman and you knew exactly what I meant. A blonde woman is a description of a woman’s hair colour and is a semantic-based response that is nothing to do with this point. You know this; it’s a foolish riposte that’s nothing at all to do with the clear and simple fact that a woman who used to be a man is not the same thing as a (cis) woman.
I can call it a woman who used to have a penis or a woman who used to be a man if you want me to be pedantic about it. Nothing to do with hair colour, or skin colour, or anything else except previously being a biological male and now identifying as a woman. ::: So you’re spot-on with the phrase "transforming adjectives into exclusionary essentialist dogma".
He calls us biologically female and he’s also willing to call us women, but only if he can add the dislaimer about our past. His dogmatic worldviews just don’t allow him to acknowledge us as just women, no matter what.
wait til the transphobes learn how to wield sex (as in changing your sex) against trans women
Me to future transphobes: "Get the fuck inside there! NOW!"
Well, you see,
British transphobes continue to be awful. Fucking hell.
Transphobia is deeply ingrained in the British mindset. Even some of our "communist" parties are transphobic and claim that "gender identity is bourgeois". Trans people are arguably treated worse by the British left than American religious fascists. That's how bad it is.
It is shocking how much worse they are than
@CARCOSA@hexbear.net
Apperently we are also federated with feddit.uk. Do you think taking the same immedite actions as Ada would be good? Or do you prefer waiting for the feddit mod team to make a dicision?
Even more fun watching the non blahaj thread from blaze where the UK admins are just blaming Ada for not wanting to be around transphobes as the admins have to work out if they can bad them or not after the court decision
least transphobic br*ts
Welcome
refugees.Feddit is the problem here so anyone who comes here would come likely come from there. Idk if we have access to feddit from here but moving from blahaj to here to access it would likely only be a temporary solution if nothing changes.
Fish.
Lol they can't help themselves
Blahaj is just going to slowly become hexbear style isolationists to avoid transphobia and still complain about us
rip bozo