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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.


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  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

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Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.

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There's a post about it.

That post explicitly says it's not a place for debate or participation from users of other instances.

I'd like to respect that but I think events like this need debate and discussion because it helps to develop and evolve the culture of lemmy and the fediverse in general.

The post says:

This post is "FYI only" for blahaj lemmy members. It is not a debate, and is not intended for non blahaj lemmy users to weigh in and offer opinions.

I recently received reports of a feddit.uk user espousing transphobia. Specifically, this was a feddit.uk user refusing to use the word cis, repeating the "adult human female" dog whistle, and claiming that trans women are not women. I approached a member of the feddit.uk admin team and raised my concerns and sought clarification of their stance on posts like this, where the transphobia is mostly dogwhistles, and "civil disagreement" on the validity of trans folk.

I was told by the feddit.uk admin that their preferred response is this kind of transphobia is to "sort it out through discussion and voting". However, the comments in question are currently more upvoted than downvoted, and little "sorting out" has occurred. The posts remain in place.

At this point, the admin stopped responding to my messages despite being active elsewhere on lemmy. When it became clear they were ignoring my messages and had no intention of removing the posts in question, I made the decision to defederate the instance.

I know some folk agree with the feddit.uk admins approach of pushback through discussion and voting, but this instance is not designed to be that kind of space. Blahaj lemmy is meant to be a place where we can avoid the rampant transphobia universally visible on nearly every other social media platform, and where we can exist without needing to debate our right to do so.

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[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

makes sense to me, that is what blahaj is for 😒 besides people that agree with that user don't want to interact with blahaj. And those that do could do it elsewhere

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Seems fair, I don't think this is PTB

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 20 points 15 hours ago

I've composed a little ditty for my barbershop quartet:

"Hell Yeah!"

I'm afraid it loses something in text.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (6 children)

Good decision by Ada. I'm also quite pleased with how many instance mates stood up in here to defend blahaj's decision.

PS: It occurs to me we might need a name for our peeps. I.e. like one talks about "lemmings" or "redditors", we could use something for members of the divisions by zero. Edit

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[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How are people still struggling with the basic concept that the person who runs Blahaj can do what they want with Blahaj?

All I get from this type of moaning is: “I joined a decentralised platform and now disagree with decentralisation in action.”

If this kind of action is what it takes for Blahajists to protect their necks then this is how it’s gonna be…

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They're not struggling at all, just supremely butthurt that they're not being given a direct platform to abuse people.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Hit the nail right on the head here, they're whining because the trans people won't allow them to debate and strawman their existence. I'm happy that Blahaj challenges socially acceptable transphobia and I really wish more people would do it. These types of transphobes shouldn't feel welcome anywhere ~~with trans people~~ at all.

Blahaj should do more like this.

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in 20 points 22 hours ago

fair for both sides, I don't see a PTB here.

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