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’m not voting, but I just wanna say, in a reasonable society, opposing someone’s rights would get you beat up
I’m trans; I say fuck 'em
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.Removed by mod
No tolerance. Feddit.uk can oust their mods and admins themselves or move to different servers.
Fuck a Nazi TERF instance. And that user in question with the “adult human female” dog whistle bullshit can face the fucking wall.
:ukkk:
(i’m trans fyi)
If I’m reading the feddit.uk comments correctly, UK passed some transphobic law defining “woman” and that somehow affects how they moderate their UK based internet forum.
From burgerland this is absurdly inconceivable, but the UK is know for not having any sort of free speech laws.
Whether its for feddit.uk or the UK as a whole
Big
We should 100% detach from any instance that harbors transphobes.
It’s not really a huge loss if it does get defederated. They posted annoying anti-China slop like that piano player and his victim complex.
All white english to be banned, all goes according to plan
- transfemme here.
Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Shitty ass rule that just means transphobia and other bigotry is acceptable as long as it’s a ”subtle” dogwhistle.
The admin’s response is just very strange. Why does British law matter here? No one expects or wants forum rules to have a formal legal basis. It’s something you make and enforce based on what kind of community you want to have, and if they’re fine with transphobia because it’s legal to be a transphobe, they clearly don’t want the kind of community we do and we should defederate.
Why does British law matter here?
It doesn’t, they’re just insufferable reddit-tier losers
