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.
I just like seeing the British flag burn. Tiocfaidh ár lá.
I’m trans; I say fuck 'em
I’m not voting, but I just wanna say, in a reasonable society, opposing someone’s rights would get you beat up
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.- ukkk is yuk
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We should 100% detach from any instance that harbors transphobes.
- I think users can hide/block comms/posts they don’t like.
Heh heh CoC
- We defeded from blahaj.zone for the same reason. It would be pretty hypocritical to stay federated with them, especially since the transphobia
is even worse. There’s just no excuse for not banning someone who calls trans women “it”. - is better bait
- 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 think maintaining the ability for people here to agitate there is important.
No one in the world should ever have to speak to a British person
ukkk just because I almost never see a good take from feddit.uk users anyway. The good ones can or should just join Hexbear anyway, or Lemmygrad if they want more federation
- first to make their admins seethe
24 hours later because it’s the right thing to do for our usersI like this it is fun
we should not dunk at the expense of our own users, but you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take
