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Due to overwhelming support for unilateral defederation from feddit.uk, we will be doing so tomorrow at 8:30pm Moscow time. Please see the previous thread for context.
We wanted to give everyone a heads-up since after we defederate, numerous account actions and deletions will NOT update on the defederated instance due to coding limitations in lemmy. This includes:
-Post edits and deletions
-Account edits (bio, profile picture, display name)
-Account deletions
In the future this will likely be fixed, but due to the dev work required it's not feasible to change in the short term. If you have any account or post changes you want to make, please do so before 4/27 8:30pm Moscow Time, or when this post is 24hrs old.
Thanks to everyone who provided their feedback. We will continue to fight transphobia and reactionary rhetoric on this instance for the safety of our users 
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Don't disagree.
We don't mind opposing information insofar as it isn't spammy gotchas or reactionary attacks on marginalized groups.
Removing "vuvuzela no iphone" and "communism bad tianmen winny the pooh" comments prevents this place from being the same annoying fight fest that every other liberal social media platform is.
Good faith discussion isn't a bad thing, but removing tired low-effort garbage is necessary to have a space where we can focus on our own discussions without derailing into having the same debates over and over. Most of those types of comments aren't good faith anyway and those users just want to stick it to us rather than explore ideas.
Hopefully someday we can reunite with you if feddit.uk changes or you make an account on another lemmy server.
I wasn't referring to that sort of stuff, I meant with this defederation. A bit extreme in my opinion.
Defederation is the choice that prevents the mod team from having to do a lot more moderating.
Sure, it is the most "extreme" option out of what a federated server can do, but anyone who really wants to participate in conversations with Hexbear can join any other Lemmy server that federates with us. Anyone who really wants to see or interact with our content will be able to.
So really it is us deciding the reach of federating with that server is worth less that the expected moderation effort. Not very extreme IMO.
You think it’s extreme to protect trans people here from those who completely dehumanize us?
Sure when you phrase it like that it sounds black and white, but i don't think the comment in question was "completely dehumanising". They were saying that, in law, "woman" refers to cis women. Which is what our supreme court decided recently. Horrible decision, and I disagree with it, but it's something to fight against. Not completely shut off from the entire country and hide in your bubble. Because if you do that your bubble will get smaller and smaller.
nah. cutting shitheads off at the knees is how you fight. you don't give dumb motherfuckers an inch, an iota, a single minute of belief their opinion is worthy of air. you don't discuss.
and dogg? look at me. look at me. you're not listening. listen when i talk.
Hexbear is straight up bigger, better, richer.
feddit.uk is a nothingburger instance. feel me? from where im sittin, nothing of value was lost.
you can go now
For some of us, this bubble is the only place their identity isn't under constant attack.
Bigots and liberal ideas exist everywhere. We won't miss anything by excluding them.
Creating a total commie bubble within a liberal society would take so much fucking effort that suggesting that blocking safe havens for bigotry prevents us from seeing important ideas is actually hilarious.
They’re not even complaining about us not seeing important ideas, they’re complaining that they won’t get the privilege of feeling like they’re getting a balanced diet by occasionally entertaining a little communism as a treat. It’s self centred af
He literally called trans women "it".
transphobia
There’s absolutely no excuse for letting such a fucked-up comment stay up. It’s such an obvious instaban.
Feddit has no obligation to submit to a supreme court ruling. The Feddit admins simply have no intention of preventing transphobia on their instance. Either they agree with it, or they're too weak to stop it.
On Hexbear we have a fantastic melange of people who would be banned on sight in other instances purely because of their country of origin. I value that global scale bubble.
Sounds like the supreme court ruling is just the thin veil needed to justify doing what they wanted to do anyway.
Fair enough
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Going to fight the injust rulings of one country's supreme court by conceding to their points on my international website for no reason other than it's easier to side with bigots than it is to fight them
Hexbear.net defederates with feddit .^y^ uk
Is this extreamism?
I think it’s extreme that you don’t mind transphobia.
I mind it
Do you realllly tho?
Did ChatGPT write this for you? Really going with the classic right wing whines huh? And not only are you NOT HITLER, you're also a super cool ALLY, WOWIE!
Anyway I called you a dumb troll not Hitler, get over yourself
You've kinda got me in a bind here, I'm supposed to prove that I hate transphobia without trying to be a "super cool ally", as you say?
Sorry for jumping to Hitler, bad example, I meant just to try and find common ground with people. Don't be so adversarial and act like every reply has to be a mega dunk. If you seriously think I'm a dumb troll I'm not quite sure what to say.
This is the first reply I've downvoted in the entire thread
You completely downplayed it in your other reply.
I call you out for completely downplaying a comment refering to us as "it", and you do it again by saying that he’s "probably" a bigot. Are you serious?
And for the last part: If they approve of this law, we sure as fuck can ban them. Why not?
It became blatantly obvious what you were doing after like the third comment, I've always warned dipshit trolls who think this is twitter or a youtube comment section
NONE OF YOU ARE SMART ENOUGH TO TROLL THIS INSTANCE
Protip, your dead giveaway was your over-the-top "concern" for "open-mindedness" and "varying opinions"......forum engineering nerds don't express views like that while simultaneously being too dense to recognize the obvious bigotry that's undermining the forum experiment
If federation was at the forefront of your mind you would've immediately advocated for banning the transphobes that led to defederation, instead you played dumb and tipped your hand
Nice try
If you did you'd make your feelings clearer in your original comment and delete your feddit.ukkk account.
Happy now?
extremely cool and good
It’s not about a single comment or a single user (especially since there were multiple), but about the behaviour of the entire admin team, who after 3 days are still debating whether or not to do anything about it.
It’s so fucking selfish of you to expect trans people to put up with transphobes coming in here and treating us like shit, when all you have to do is just make another account here.