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I’ve only been on Lemmy a few days and I’ve already witnessed a lot of thinly veiled transphobia, anything from people dismissing the existence of trans people, to trying to claim we are predators. I’ve also seen people downvoted in the general communities for expressing trans support, or seemingly for no reason other than simply being openly trans or visibly queer. I know it’s an ongoing effort to moderate transphobia on Lemmy, and the fediverse as a whole. We have to also address mentions of thinly veiled transphobia and transphobic users. Transphobia isn’t just a differing opinion, it is a dangerous hateful sentiment which causes harm to vulnerable people and it needs to be addressed, at the instance and community level. We need to put in the effort to identify transphobic dogwhistles and language used by transphobes to eradicate this type of behavior from our communities and servers alike.
Some people will argue that the light stuff isn’t something to worry about, but that’s not true. This is a tactic they use to blend in with normies and make them think that nothing they are doing or saying is wrong. It’s what transphobic right-wing YouTubers and Facebook users do to avoid being banned for hate speech. We are better than these corporations though, Fediverse is run by communities and for the users, we should not let these things slide as easily as Corporations do, they’re in it to make money, we… We’re in it to create a community for the users. Part of that means kicking out those who don’t have all our best interests at heart.
Some one doesn’t understand how the fediverse works.
How the fediverse works is every instance is free to moderate itself how it likes, down to associating or not associating with other instances. So instances can choose to not deal with shit like that if they don’t want to. The idea that you have to put up with other’s idea of “free speech” which is just abusive is just not true, neither should it be.
This is exactly what I’m talking about. You’ll never be able to shut them all up all the time or forever or any of that. And soon as you kill one it can just relaunch under a different instance. You can’t control what another mod does with their own instance.
I take it you joined the Fediverse because of the promise of it being a free-speech safe haven? Seems like you’re the one who doesn’t understand how the Fediverse works.
No. Fuck Reddit long live Apollo. That good enough for you. Now go do some learning like from the other poster. Also grow the fuck up and stop making immediate assumptions about others just because you don’t understand how shit works. Hypocrite.
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Hypocrite.