I’m gonna get real with you folks, we’ve had way too many of these posts recently. I’ve been reflecting on this topic a lot the past few days. For me personally, I couldn’t care less about my gender identity. But just because that’s true for me, doesn’t make that true for everyone.
The beauty of the fediverse is that if you don’t like the way a particular instance or community is moderated you can simply choose another to hang out on, or create your own.
Blajah has made it pretty clear by now they will ban anyone who argues against the validity of xenogenders, in order to create a safe space for those folks. That’s fair enough imo.
Safe spaces should be respected, and Blajah’s admins/mods do not deserve abuse for creating and maintaining those spaces.
I can completely understand why Blajah users don’t want to have to constantly argue with external users about the validity of their chosen identities. Bans are one way Blajah has decided to manage that problem so that their users can experience lemmy in relative peace and safety. While it is a blunt tool and I have my reservations about preemptive bans, there are not many other options for @[email protected], other than defederation from most instances. That would be a terrible outcome for the fediverse as a whole.
In order to help Blajah to maintain their safe space, I would like to propose, if @[email protected] agrees and community sentiment is positive:
- that we no longer accept posts about this topic in this community; and
- we also remove previous posts on this topic from the community.
That’s all folks, have at 'er.
Did they know about the idea of different instances, and each one having their own set of rules and missions?
I was going to ask whether you meant the harassers or the harassed, but I think the answer is yes in both cases.
And they still left the fediverse?
Considering they were attacked on an instance entirely different from the one they thought they were ‘away’ from, by that instance’s defenders?
It’s hard to blame them.
That’s really unfortunate. Does the platform they’re on not have the “block instance/domain” feature?
Blocking an instance only blocks the communities of that instance. It doesn’t block users of that instance showing up in communities on other instances
Blocking an instance doesn’t keep the users of that instance from brigading other instances.
Sadly, the feature doesn’t block users, who are the ones who were causing the trouble. So far as I know, the block function only blocks communities/subs. Furthermore, the Blahaj defenders largely were not using their Blahaj accounts. Most people on the Fediverse have one or more alts.
That is a problem.