I'm trans and I really don't want to federated with these people if their mods are defending the -tard suffix and they aren't getting de-modded and banned. I also don't want to be federated with them if they ban critiquing western chauvinism.
Someone who is an admin and with more of a level head than me RN please talk to their admins about it.
The mod team on blahaj are absolutely atrocious. Other than Ada, who seems to actually engage in good faith and tries to foster at least some level understanding, their mods respond to our mods wanting to talk by leaking DMs and general bad-faith attitude. When Ada requested that direct DMs from our mods not be shared, there was some shitty scribbling and effective refusal to comply, and now also this modlog?
Everyone's a lib, that's fine. But the blahaj mods are just actively playing troublemaker at this point and don't seem interested in any kind of actual good faith interaction. They never have seemed it.
I disagree. The admin is part of the problem as well. They're just playing some good cop bad cop routine, with her being the good cop. If she really cared, those mods would be long gone. That's her prerogative as admin. Like, she could just completely shut down the Lemmy site and focus more on the Blahaj Mastodon, which is the actual flagship Blahaj website.
Beat me to it. Ada really just seems to be there to make it seem like they can be talked to, negotiated with, but Ada never does anything but wring their hands and complain about working things out being "too hard."
What do you call someone who sits down at a table full of fascists?
A fascist.
I'm being hyperbolic of course, but the same sentiment still applies. They have the power to get rid of the problem mods, but choose not to, because having those mods be the "bad guy" means they can do what Ada secretly wishes they could get away with.
You may well be right, I guess I'm just trying to be as generous with intentions as I can be.
I tried that too but gloves are off now.
So everyone's a bastard like all cops?
I think it's mostly 196 mods and specifically Moss
Maybe so, who knows about the modlog, but either way their actions not being held to account by admins, even after blatantly defying their requests, isn't great.
Is this engaging in good faith?
I can't claim to be aware of all posts they ever made, I suppose I just meant in the Hexbear-Blahaj discussions I've seen, Ada seemed to consistently be the one trying to make for productive relations. I very much agree that isn't a great take.
She's flat out saying that she prefers the company of nazis. That's not being productive.
Reminds me of when we ran a demos survey on lemmygrad we found out 50% of our users are LGBT and overall 10% of our users are trans. Meanwhile when Beehaw ran theirs, they didn't even dare to separate cis and trans identities on the survey.
Blahaj, I await your demographics survey results.
hexbear was 70% LGBT+ and something like 1/3 trans, from a demographic survey we did a year ago. I'm still livid that users on blahaj were accusing us of not being queer without copping bans.
Hexbear is the only online community I've ever been a part of where I sometimes feel like the odd one out as a straight cis dude, and it's done me all sorts of good.
The blue stuffed shark can fuck right off.
They should have paid the fine
The "tankie" cliche is a powerful information weapon. It preps people to dismiss everything they encounter from mls, at minimum, but likely a lot of other left politics gets caught in the cross fire. I really wonder how the anti-tankie crowd encounters revolutionary Anarchism. Many of them seem extremely hostile to any form of revolution and any use of force to achieve political goals, and to the admittedly very limited degree I've talked to them seem to think anarchism is when you let everyone do whatever they want, without a lot of theory beyond that. It seems, and I hope this is just my limited experience with them, that their politics begins and ends at "you cannot force anyone to do anything for any reason".