I’m gonna get real with you folks, we’ve had way too many of these posts recently. I’ve been reflecting on this topic a lot the past few days. For me personally, I couldn’t care less about my gender identity. But just because that’s true for me, doesn’t make that true for everyone.
The beauty of the fediverse is that if you don’t like the way a particular instance or community is moderated you can simply choose another to hang out on, or create your own.
Blajah has made it pretty clear by now they will ban anyone who argues against the validity of xenogenders, in order to create a safe space for those folks. That’s fair enough imo.
Safe spaces should be respected, and Blajah’s admins/mods do not deserve abuse for creating and maintaining those spaces.
I can completely understand why Blajah users don’t want to have to constantly argue with external users about the validity of their chosen identities. Bans are one way Blajah has decided to manage that problem so that their users can experience lemmy in relative peace and safety. While it is a blunt tool and I have my reservations about preemptive bans, there are not many other options for @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone, other than defederation from most instances. That would be a terrible outcome for the fediverse as a whole.
In order to help Blajah to maintain their safe space, I would like to propose, if @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com agrees and community sentiment is positive:
- that we no longer accept posts about this topic in this community; and
- we also remove previous posts on this topic from the community.
That’s all folks, have at 'er.
Man, this is the same spirit of the shit that we perennially went through with forums in the old bbcode days. Established users, especially mods or admins, playing dumb clique games with a community because they all get dopamine from it.
I’m sure the Fediverse does worry some, but this is likely not much influenced by that. It’s just regular, shitty human nature on the internet.
You’re talking to a veteran politics user from the bad place. I love that you’re calling your behavior as being “just regular, shitty human nature” as a defense.
What?
Bruh they’re a troll, ignore them.
I think it is both. It’s very subtle, but there’s enough of distinct little overlap between accounts that support super-odd political views, and accounts that like to attack specific people and cause random drama, that I found it really interesting.
And yes, also, people are jerks sometimes when you give them power and anonymity and a social grouping that is unmoored from everything except the dots on screen and the imaginings in their heads.