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 did see that but its a pretty limited excerpt and when I commented I couldn't find the source. Here's the full exchange now that I've found it: (CW transphobia of course) https://feddit.uk/post/27973987/16868783
What I didn't expect to find was that this transphobe was literally arguing with an instance admin, flamingos-cant. That paints it in a somewhat worse light, even though she was correctly calling out their transphobia and that of Sir Queer Harmer, she could have cited the rule, said "that's outright horrible" and deleted his spew.
But if they come back from conferring with the other instance admins in the next couple days and say "yeah nah fuck this guy, transphobia is ban-on-sight now" I'm still in for staying federated. If such comments are not removed, then their statement of "transphobia is not and will never be allowed here" is just a lie (or is one admin's stance and doesn't represent the rest) and obviously we should defed.
edit: It really is a bit bizarre to me to explain in minute detail to someone how what they're saying and supporting is transphobia, and then not moderate it, and then claim "transphobia is never allowed here", but I suspect there's some internal politics going on about it, and flamingos seems to be on the correct side of that dispute. like fine, there might have been enough vagueness in the first comment to justify not deleting on sight, but the doubling down and saying worse things was pretty clear cut