cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/25042034

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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    Hi, Feddit UK admin here, I’d just like to add a bit more context. We’re currently discussing these comments in an admin chat, though this was apparently not communicated to Ada so she got the impression inaction was our position. Our position is not inaction, but these specific comments have become wrapped up in a policy discussion on how we facilitate discussion of our state’s increasing hostile actions without allowing transphobia to propagate. I hope we can rectify the situation soon, but doing things by committee is never swift.

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      I think blaha’s behavior here is telling and should be considered in the decision making process.

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      Ada has said that she defederated because of a lack of response, not the content itself.

      Extra context is helpful, thanks.

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    While the underlying issue swirling around the UK courts’ confusion of gender vs. sex, male vs. female is just as confusing to me and I have no clear answers for that, the Blahaj admin’s move is I think the right one.

    That instance prides itself as being a safe-space for LGBTQ+ folks, so explicitly allowing behaviour that does not recognize its users’ identities, is reasonable grounds for defederation.

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    Defederate an instance because of a single problematic user doesn’t feel right.

    But also defederate an instance because their admins don’t comply their own rules doesn’t feel wrong.

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        This is hardly transphobia.

        Depends - many people would say that not including transwomen in the category of “women” (without qualifier) is transphobia, and the comment literally says:

        This is exactly the same as saying transwomen are not women, because they are not. They are transwomen.

        So the comment is basically arguing that “women” should only be used to mean “cis women”, which some might (perhaps rightfully) consider transphobia.

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      I’d argue it wasn’t defederated because of one user, it was defederating because of a fundamental disagreement in moderation policies.

      The one user could’ve been saying anything people could find deplorable. It was that the admin chose to be hands-off about it that pulled the trigger.

      Which is a good thing, in that servers are allowed to decide how they want to handle moderation, and other server owners are allowed to decide if they accept that, or if they expect the moderation will lead to continued problems of the same vein down the road. The fediverse working as intended.

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    For anyone who’s curious about the actual messages, I think these are them:

    A woman is an adult female. A transwoman is an adult female who used to be male. It’s not difficult to grasp that they are different things. You can admit that and still believe that transwomen should be treated with dignity like anyone else.

    Personally I don’t give a shit what bathroom people use or what they want to be referred to. I’ll go along with whatever… But a woman and a transwoman are different things, and it’s disingenuous to pretend otherwise. Always have been different things and always will be, no matter what the law states, now or in the future.

    Kier’s words are still not transphobia. There is no fear, dislike, prejudice, discrimination, harassment, or violence in his statement. The scream of ‘transphobia’ is thrown around too much for anyone who disagrees with a narrow definition. Any disagreement is labelled as hate, and it’s silly.

    Should a transwoman have the same rights and respect and opportunity as a woman (as per the legal definition)? Absolutely. Are they the same? No, they are not. Is that a hateful bigoted viewpoint worthy of scorn? I don’t believe so.

    I don’t use the term cis. I use the term woman and you knew exactly what I meant. A blonde woman is a description of a woman’s hair colour and is a semantic-based response that is nothing to do with this point. You know this; it’s a foolish riposte that’s nothing at all to do with the clear and simple fact that a woman who used to be a man is not the same thing as a (cis) woman.

    I can call it a woman who used to have a penis or a woman who used to be a man if you want me to be pedantic about it. Nothing to do with hair colour, or skin colour, or anything else except previously being a biological male and now identifying as a woman.

    ‘adult human female’ is not a dog whistle. It’s a legal and common-sense definition that you clearly understand but are trying to make out to be hate for some reason. I am not denying the legitimacy of transwomen; nor is Keir.

    Transwomen and (cis) women are different things. And Transmen and (cis) men are different things. They have different names, which you yourself use for a reason. That reason being they are not the same thing. This is exactly the same as saying transwomen are not women, because they are not. They are transwomen.

    It’s pretty simple.

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      I disagree with this, and I’d downvote it, but it sounds like they’re just repeating what the supreme court said. I don’t think it deserves a ban.

      Completely defederating with us over this is insane

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      Well, they’re right that it is pretty simple. Here’s a fun experiment for anyone who thinks this isn’t transphobic: try reading it again, but substitute black for trans. Totally reasonable they should have to use another bathroom, right?

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          Did you? They spent the whole post arguing that a trans woman is not a woman. To clarify, a cis woman and a trans woman are different things. Both of these things are women. Cis and trans describe the women.

          Some trans women may identify with having once been a man, but it’s hardly the case for all of them, especially the ones who recognized their mistaken assignment early. She was always herself. She was never a man unless she herself identified as one.

          The wording “used to be a man” and “used to have a penis” makes me wonder if this person is using genital surgery as a determining factor. It’s thankfully becoming very acceptable these days to be a girl with a penis or boy with a vagina, so that such surgeries are more of a personal decision rather than a means of legitimizing oneself to society.

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      Thank you for posting it. Good to know that Blahaj made the right choice for its users, which really wasn’t obvious otherwise.

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        Just because it’s have a cordial tone, but it’s pretty tranphobic all around the place. Master class on sealioning.

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          Idk just saying that transwomen and cis women are different doesn’t seem transphobic in and of itself, especially since the person seems to be saying that they should have the same rights now

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            Idk just saying that transwomen and cis women are different doesn’t seem transphobic in and of itself

            Agreed - but the crucial point here is that the comment says that trans women are not women, which is a stance many would consider to be transphobia. I think the proper way to say it is that trans women and cis women are obviously not the same thing, but both are women.

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            The whole “I’m not saying ‘cis’” is the biggest red flag. Typically in their mind it’s because cis means “normal” instead of just being an adjective. It’s like the people that say they have nothing against the gays ™ but they don’t like it shoved in their faces. Nothing against them but don’t exist near me energy.

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            It’s a very polite post on the surface, but do note that they refer to trans women as “it”. I think they’re being very polite because they know that saying “I think trans women are just deluded men and I don’t want to respect those things” doesn’t go as well.

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              They don’t. Read the text carefully. The use of “it” doesn’t seem to be in relation to trans women.

              I agree it confusing, but the use of it seems to be more general. Note how the rest of the text doesn’t use such a construction.

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          I mean the basic argument, that trans identifying peoples are in their own distinct categories outside of the typical gender binary, actually has some interesting meat to it.

          Trans men and women do have different experiences from their cisgender counterparts, different medical needs, different journeys. None of which I am experienced enough in the subject to speak to.

          Kinda loses me on their “I don’t use the word cis” part though

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            Op argument is that they are Real Women and then then Women Who Used To Have Penis, reducing the trans experience and identify to the sex they were born into. The part of not using the word cis is not even the worst, imo, like using the word “thing” to talk about people is pretty disgusting, or comparing “blonde women” with “trans women” like if gender identity was just a superficial aspect of a person instead of the fundamental one it is.

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              Yeah honestly, I think saying trans women are not women, like that gatekeeping part is the main issue. You know, trans women aren’t the same as cis women from like what they went through but they are still gatekeeping. Trans women are women. When you just say women without any further info people will derive that its referring to most probably cis women but this differentiation really does not matter. I think thats what the OP is arguing but who knows.

              But personally it really depends on moderation style. I don’t take huge offense to the feddit.uk mods not removing this. Its on the edge but if for example they don’t have like gatekeeping rules about it then the other users should just downvote it. If it doesn’t fall in lines with the rules then remove it but defederation of one comment is a lot if you ask me. But I get that they want to be a save space for LGBTQ+ people

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              See, I just don’t think what you’ve deduced the argument to was what was actually said.

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                Think of it from a math perspective. The non-transphobic stance would be that woman is the superset which contains subsets of trans, cis, and others. The comment says they’re two separate sets, woman and transwoman. This is why cis doesn’t have to be used, because woman is sufficient to describe the set, because trans women aren’t part of it.

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        Blahaj admins trumping up something minor into a crisis so they can claim they’re being discriminated against and enact a wild overreactive response?

        I’m shocked. Shocked, I say. Well… not that shocked.

        I mean in fairness, the original messages are a little bit ignorant yes. Mostly I was just trying to quote the accurate background material so people could see the primary source information.

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      I’m so annoyed by these pseudointellectuals who can’t seem to grasp the relatively simple difference between “sex” and “gender”.

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        I don’t understand what this has to do with the difference between sex and gender. Is “woman” a sex or a gender?

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          It can vary on the context, but “female” and “male” are “supposed” to refer to biological sex alone.

          That’s why it can be offensive when men talk about women as “females”, and why it also would sound slightly silly to talk about — for instance — women penguins. “Female penguins” sounds much more correct, doesn’t it?

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            Women penguins only sounds weird because that’s not the normal word for it. They’re girl penguins or lady penguins. “Woman” feels too formal and human.

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              And why isn’t “women birds” the normal word for it? And do you think scientific studies call them girls or ladies?

              Nah.

              You can, but it works because it’s essentially joke-y, because clearly female penguins aren’t women, but female.

              Kinda like referring to a granny as “young lady/miss”, even though everyone knows they’re not.

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                Scientific studies also use male and female in reference to human subjects’ gender identities. Woman and female are both incredibly old terms which have been used interchangeably as there was no widespread concept of gender identity in the English-speaking world until recently. We had to invent the term “gender identity” to separate gender from sex because they’d previously been used to refer to the same thing.

                You seem to be saying that a trans man is female because he was assigned the female sex at birth. Have I understood that correctly?

                Sources:

                https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex–gender_distinction

                https://www.etymonline.com/

                Small sample of studies using male/female to refer to gender:

                https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6748626/

                https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10685922/

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                  You seem to be saying that a trans man is female because he was assigned the female sex at birth. Have I understood that correctly?

                  Well, sort of. I know sex isn’t as black-and-white as people make it out to be, but since we’re already having troubles explaining gender being a spectrum, I’d thought I’d leave out the more nuanced bits in favour of succinctness.

                  We had to invent the term “gender identity” to separate gender from sex because they’d previously been used to refer to the same thing

                  I mean yeah, the word gender, meaning “male or female sex” is from as early as 15th century, but only came to be the more common word for “sex” as “sex” started getting erotic connotations.

                  The “male-or-female sex” sense of the word is attested in English from early 15c. As sex (n.) took on erotic qualities in 20c., gender came to be the usual English word for “sex of a human being,” in which use it was at first regarded as colloquial or humorous. Later often in feminist writing with reference to social attributes as much as biological qualities; this sense first attested 1963. Gender-bender is from 1977, popularized from 1980, with reference to pop star David Bowie.

                  https://www.etymonline.com/word/gender

                  Edit whops I posted before finishing writing just a moment

                  As I was saying language nor gender identities are never as black and white as we’d like them to be. So yeah, you are right in that in different contexts, scientific studies like you say, may as well use female and male to refer to subjects. As in male for trasnmen and female for transwomen. As it should. If they’re not like studying uteruses, I don’t see why them being trans would matter.

                  Trans women are women. Trans men are men.

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            I’ve never heard of a gender/sex distinction between ‘woman’ and ‘female’, what are you basing this on? By whom is this distinction ‘supposed’ (as you put it) to be a thing?

            I doubt the general public would agree, anyway. In the Cambridge Dictionary, I find ‘female’ defined as ‘belonging or relating to women or girls

            You may of course argue your definition of ‘female’ should be the correct one, but it’s not the common one at the moment. I would think it’d be strange, though, if you couldn’t refer to a trans woman as ‘female’, which your distinction seems to imply.

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              The general public are a subjective take, and also, dumb as fuck.

              Yeah, sex is related to gender, but it’s not the same thing.

              if you couldn’t refer to a trans woman as ‘female’, which your distinction seems to imply.

              If its your colloquial necessity to objectify women, then I don’t know, be equal and objectify the trans girls as well.

              But if you don’t, then it’s gonna be preferable to address them as “women”, not “females”.

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                If you’re purely referring to ‘female’ as a noun, I do have a similar intuition about ‘female’ (noun) vs. ‘woman’, but it has little to do with objectification and more to do with ‘female’ generally being used in a biological sense, specifically non-human animals.

                As an adjective, ‘female’ is pretty neutral, though.

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                  Yeah, it’s to refer to biological sex. But language doesn’t have exact rules, it’s descriptive more than prescriptive.

                  Most people don’t understand that sex and gender are similar, yet distinct concepts.

                  As an adjective, ‘female’ is pretty neutral, though.

                  But it’s implications aren’t always. I used to think that as well, but unfortunately language is a cooperative thing and if the person you’re talking to doesn’t consider it neutral, then it isn’t.

                  And if a police was giving a description of a trans girl, they probably wouldn’t say “male”, would they?

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            So the problem is the word “female”, not the word “woman”, am I understand this correctly? If I am, then what should the correct sentence/statement be? “A woman is an adult …”

            I’m not trolling, I’m genuinely confused because I thought XX -> female, XY -> male, but there are a bunch of combinations that present themselves / have a male or female phenotype. Is woman supposed to be the gender and female the sex?

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              Is woman supposed to be the gender and female the sex?

              Yes.

              But like I’ve said, the issue is that most people don’t know their difference between “gender” and “sex”. Hell, my native language doesn’t even have two distinct words, which is a huge negative when trying to educate them on the subject.

              And because they don’t understand the difference, they sometimes, or all the time, think “woman” refers to the biological sex, and thus they insist “men can’t become women”, because biologically you don’t change from male to female, and that is true. But your gender does change from masculine to feminine, so it is not wrong to say that men can become women.

              It’s honestly just a lack understanding. And that lack of understanding stems from fear of seeming stupid, so they fear talking about it and interacting with the subject. Which is why it’s called transphobia, despite those people not necessarily being directly afraid of trans people.

              Languages, or gender identities, are never quite as straight forward as we’d like them to be.

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                biologically you don’t change from male to female, and that is true.

                “Biological sex” refers to many different traits, some of them changeable, some of them not. It would not be inaccurate to refer to medical transition as changing one’s biological sex

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                  Okay, that is true enough, biologically you do change, but not genetically, or gonadly, at least not yet. Who knows what the future brings?

                  I’m just trying to “use their language” to get the ideas through, not trying to differentiate between trans and cis. In fact that’s sort of been my point that there’s usually just no need to.

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                OK. That makes sense. But why is it offensive to refer to certain women as females and certain men as males?

                It seems to be the correct terminology to be more specific e.g “she’s a male woman” makes more sense to me than transwoman because I never know which “direction” it is (transitioned to woman or transitioned from woman). And if would also be clearer to say that somebody is male/female for those that don’t want a question to “linger” whether it’s what they identify as or whether they were born that way.

                my native language doesn’t even have two distinct words

                It seems like only romance languages do, because they have “gendre”. I do wonder which other languages do.

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                  Other languages have gender as well. And we have a word for gender. It’s just the same word as for “sex”, but we do have words for “woman”, “man”, “male” and “female”, so you might ask “kumpi sukupuoli” (which sex/gender) and depending on context, you’d reply either “man/woman” or “male/female” as in “mies/nainen” for man/woman and “uros/naaras” for a biological sex, however those terms are even more clearly not for humans than in English. As in English, a cop might reasonably say “suspect is a white male, six foot”, etc, but no Finnish cops would ever use “uros”. You could in very specific contexts perhaps sometimes use those for people, if you’re like trying to invoke animal imagery for very masculine males or something, but it’d be closer to “bitch” almost than “female” to call a woman “naaras” in Finnish. Not really, but it wouldn’t be far off. It’s like almost halfway between those, I’d say.

                  “she’s a male woman” makes more sense to me than transwoman because I never know which “direction” it is

                  Well if there’s “trans” in front of the “man” or “woman” that’s like having - in front of a number. Like 7 isn’t the same as -7 you know? They look similar, but it’s not hard to learn. That being said, I do actually agree with you that that would be the correct terminology, however we can’t really ascribe rules to language and I can see reminding people that they’re not “true” women, but “male” women would be like deadnaming. There’s just no need to specify. A woman is a woman. A woman is a gender, or should be, and that’s the direction we’re taking the language in. (And by “us” I mean “the woke people” as opposed to the transphobes and conservative fucknuts) Be you short, tall, black, trans or even ginger, you’re still a woman, they’re all just adjectives. Unless there’s honestly a genuine need to specify, then what’s the point of having that adjective there?

                  Trans women are women, quite simply.

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          ‘Female’ is a sex, while ‘woman’ is a gender.

          Sex refers to biological characteristics like chromosomes, hormones, and reproductive anatomy. That’s why we say things like ‘female dog’ or ‘male cat’—we’re talking about biological sex, not identity.

          Gender, on the other hand, is a social and cultural construct—it includes roles, behaviors, and identities that society associates with being a ‘woman’ or a ‘man.’ That’s why it makes sense to say ‘a woman wears makeup’ or ‘a man wears a suit,’ but not ‘a male wears makeup.’ Saying ‘a male wears makeup’ sounds off because makeup is associated with gender expression, not biological sex.

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            The wikipedia article is a jumbled mess then.

            A woman is an adult female human.

            That seems to be an incorrect definition. Shouldn’t it be “A woman is a human identifying as female”?

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              I mean, sure? Not really? Language is imprecise, and different peoples in different cultural backgrounds will use it slightly differently, and to me both read as interchangeable. I’m not an expert in this area, nor am I trans, and this is getting into the detailed weeds of gender and human sciences.

              “Through transition, a transgender person aligns their gender expression, legal status, and often their physical sex characteristics (through hormones or surgery) with their internal gender identity.”

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                Language is imprecise, but definitions should be precise. Because reading that article is very confusing when sex and gender are constantly being mixed up. People who are confused, like me, are then accused of being “transphobic”, but how are we supposed to understand when even the definition mixes things up? Not everybody wants to have a similar discussion as we just had, in order to somewhat understand what’s going on.

                Reading the wikipedia article confuses people even further. The comment that caused defederation looks very much like the person read the wikipedia article which states “A woman is an adult female human” and continued down that path. In fact it’s even the very first thing they say.

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                  It is complicated and messy, which is why, if it doesn’t directly concern you, maybe the correct thing to do is to not weigh in with your opinion.

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      Moreover, it’s her instance, and she can do whatever she wants with it.

      Its users are free to leave whenever they wish, but I doubt many will as a result of this bc (a) Ada is awesome, and (b) the comments look strongly in her favor. Also © Ava’s policies are clearly explained at the outset, and firmly and fairly applied.

      Our approval outside of the situation does not matter in the slightest:-).

      (That said, if it did, I would want to see some additional context, bc wine that phrase can be used as a dog whistle, I believe it may also be legitimate as well. I would strongly hope that the additional context in this case provided the justification that I can’t fully see here. Which knowing Ada, seems highly likely. Edit: if this comment really is it, then nvm, I get it. Tbf that really does seem like a discussion that needs to be had among centrists, but I can totally see why Blåhaj doesn’t want to federate that content and thereby host it on its own servers. So without prejudicial judgement either for or against the original comment, I definitely support Ada’s call here. As I always end up doing when I dig deeply enough to see what’s going on in each situation. I am not saying that I would have done it - perhaps a community block or other reduced feature could have been applied, but for her server, it’s her right.)

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      Yeah, this is just the Fediverse operating as intended. Some instances are heavily federated, others are less so. This gives people options.

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      Eh, there was a situation a while ago with the LemmyNSFW instance that I felt was a bit much. However, the sidebar of the community they had issue with didn’t help LemmyNSFW’s case despite the fact it was a copy-pasted dictionary definition.

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    I think it’s healthy for admins to defederate, for whatever reason, from their choice of other instances.

    If this is not done enough, then we will end up with few instances dominating the ebb and flow of discussion and content. And making it difficult for voices to be heard.

    If done too much, and there are many tiny clusters of communities, there are social forces that will make many of these network closer.

    If we did this more, it will break the monopoly of the large instances we see today, and better things can grow

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      As a .world user id be sad if it got defederated. I like my content to have all kind of point of views (if discussions are civil).
      I have yet to see any large influx of transphobia comments, but will say i haven’t read much comments in general.

      I wonder if lemmy has a system to ban users from an instance without defederating? It should only be a last resort…

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        You sure know a lot about .world for an 8 hour old account. Actually, wait… Relentless attacks against Americans? Bitching about .world? Lemmy.cafe instance? Hi Antiyanks! Nice seeing you again on your over 150th account by now.

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    Censorship attempt failed… These people are so fucking annoying. They can’t tell a difference between a discussion and hatred.

    Nothing lost, good for feddit.UK admins for having a back bone.

    Let these children self segregate and jerk each other off within their echo chambers

    We got a class war to fight and corpos to destroy anyway!