This was originally posted as a comment response in [email protected].
Back in December, the instance hosting 196 (lemmy.blahaj.zone) announced that, as part of its mission as a trans-friendly space, harassment based on gender or neopronouns would remain prohibited—even if the user in question was suspected of being a troll. Users were asked to disengage, block, and report suspected trolling behavior rather than bring harassment into a community already vulnerable to that kind of bullying.
There was a small backlash to the policy from some users. This led to a number of “toe the line” posts that weren’t outright gender-based harassment but strongly signaled an intent to misgender or harass in the future. Blahaj admins promptly removed all offending comments during this wave of dissent.
Important to note: The majority of the Blahaj and 196 users supported the policy, upvoting and praising the admins for creating a safe space for trans individuals.
By January, the backlash had mostly subsided, and the trolls causing issues had moved on. However, 196 moderator @moss and their team remained unhappy with the policy. They cited “personal differences” and felt Blahaj admins had overstepped by removing comments themselves rather than allowing 196 mods to address users who openly expressed intent to harass others.
Yesterday, @moss and the 196 moderation team enacted a major decision without consulting the community. They locked [email protected] and instructed users to move to [email protected].
This move was extremely unpopular. Many users strongly dislike lemmy.world for various reasons (a complicated topic better unpacked elsewhere). The announcement post was met with widespread backlash, and @moss eventually locked it. In response, a few users created a new community on Blahaj: [email protected]. The new community quickly grew in size and activity, with most users opting to stay on Blahaj rather than migrate to lemmy.world.
It’s clear @moss and the 196 moderators underestimated the community’s attachment to its home on Blahaj. By attempting to uproot the group without input, they alienated much of the community. As a result, most users have moved to the new Blahaj-hosted community, which has already become the more active space.
TL;DR:
@Moss and the 196 mod team tried to move the community to lemmy.world without consulting anyone. The decision was extremely unpopular, leading to backlash and the creation of a new Blahaj-hosted community that most users now prefer.
Go ahead and check my comment history and see if there’s a trend in misgendering. If I were so vigorously against trans folk, I’d probably be far more vocal about it than just addressing this particular individual. Seems you’re looking for an excuse to paint me as transphobe.
My problem is with trolls and trolls alone.
And this particular one has embedded themselves within a very protected category of people for this reason and this reason alone- the absolute shit show it causes.
I could spend all day listing their offenses, but maybe you should do the work yourself and check their modlog.
They have suggested people commit suicide.
Sorry that trans people aren’t “UWU soft beans~” all the time or whatever, you don’t just get a free pass to insult people when they’re being assholes
So, two things:
One - You think this is staring from a place where I believe they’re trans. I don’t. Which is why I think they’re a troll.
Two - You think this is starting from a place where I care about your opinion. I don’t. Which is why what you say doesn’t really matter to me.
Which got drag a deserved ban.
Drag getting misgendered doesn’t have anything to do with that. Drag can be a troll, get banned and correctly gendered. Both things can be true at the same time.
This is exactly what they want. So I’m not going to give them more of it. I’m done arguing about that troll.
Take any other Internet discussion rule, like doxing for instance. Are you also trying to dox trolls because they are trolls?
Seems counterproductive to assess everyone’s behavior and then misgender them based on that. Just correctly gender everyone and call it a day.
No.