Struggle informs theory, and theory in turn counsels action. That’s why those at the summits of power do everything that can to ridicule and condemn and censor these ideas

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • C4RC0S4@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Are you transgender or gender diverse? Informal Survey Result: Majority of active Hexbear users say Yes and Maybe.English
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    3 months ago

    Timezones are a fuck but what was left out of the below response was:

    I messaged Ada to ask the 196 mods if they would consider removing the “fuck tankies” banner as multiple trans users expressed they didn’t feel welcome due to being labeled a tankie (it is a generic insult for anyone more left than the person using the word, anarchists have been called it). She said that she didn’t feel comfortable doing that, which is valid, and said I could DM them.

    I DMed them asking if they would consider removing the banner and explained why. I did not get a response, instead a screenshot of my DM was pinned to the community along with an ableist slur. This DM leak post/slur was left up for over a day, finally the moderator used paint to partially obscure the image and put up a passive-aggressive comment about being tone policed.

    All the mod had to do was say “lol no, fuck tankies” and I would’ve dropped it, but it is a huge red flag when someone in charge of stewarding a community on an instance dedicated to marginalized people (which I am) chooses to publically ridicule rather than talk. This is after I asked the community mods of the dunk tank to change their rules to ensure that no other admins or mods could be posted to the community, which they did and the “people of NATO” post that referenced a lemmy.blahaj admin/mod was removed.

    That mod is still on the 196 team, while anyone doing such a thing on hexbear would be demodded and permabanned. I think ultimately there is a significant disconnect between moderation expectations and actions resulting in the sustained defederation. We’ve put up user polls on refederation twice since this happened, and hexbear users overwhelmingly do not wish to refederate.

    I am saddened by this in part because I think Ada is a great person and that the instance is great, other than 196. With transphobia a problem in a large part of the lemmy-verse supporting each other and sticking together despite any political disagreements is very important and look forward to cultivating a thriving, safe, and positive trans space in this corner of the fediverse with all of you.

  • C4RC0S4@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLemmy.world Support@lemmy.world•Any plans to refederate with lemmygrad when client side instance blocking will be available?
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    6 months ago

    The “proof” in the hexbear defederation post has nothing to do with a “call out for total war with other instances” but nice try again with the lies. The comments show that hexbear believes it has an ideological duty to engage in discussion on any current event, post of politics, or news post. The post links states clearly that “breaking the hexbear code of conduct on another instance will result in a ban on hexbear” I’ve compared the lemmy.world terms of service and the hexbear one and can’t find any difference so how exactly is hexbear telling its users to engage in other instances posts while respecting their code of conduct something deserving of “preemptive defederation”

    I accept your apology, Antik made the same one. It is clear that lemmy.world had no desire to have a dedicated leftist community federated, which is fine, just say that you are defederated for ideological/political differences. If you want to create the neoliberal instance, more power to you, but to say anything otherwise requires actual proof rather than vague claims.

    So you can try out a well-known instance of fascist trolls that frequently used slurs as well as made posts explicitly describing what instance to sign up on, and what posts to target with copy/paste, slur-ridden messages? However, an instance that wants to engage in sourced discussion of current events receives a “last resort, preemptive defederation” this massive disparity in response shows that the admins of lemmy.world are willing to give hateful nazi instances a chance, but won’t even let a leftist instance in the door.

    Double the reports of what?? There could not have been any user reports of hexbear posts/comments as IT NEVER EVEN FEDERATED with lemmy.world. You won’t even remove @FirstMajesticComet@lemmy.blahaj.zone communities from lemmy.world