Due to multiple factors, such as unaddressed ableist removals from the /c/196 moderators, defense of chasers, no-quarter rules regarding our users, leakage of good-faith DMs from our admin team, and a general lack of initiative to punish these behaviors, we have come to the conclusion that the 196 community on lemmy.blahaj.zone has made the fediverse an unsafe space for our queer, disabled, neurodivergent, non-western, and other marginalized comrades on this forum, and we will be defederating from lemmy.blahaj.zone until we can be confident that this will not continue to be an issue.
We have attempted to make good-faith parley with both the instance admin and the comm moderators, but we've reached a point which we feel that until these behaviors are addressed by instance administration, we can no longer continue to federate in good-faith while our users are being actively invalidated by a small-but-vocal portion of the forum. Once we are confident that these behaviors have ceased and are unlikely to continue, we are more-than-happy to refederate in the name of queer solidarity.
Thanks for bearing with us :07:
Ada's response is just...
Edit: The ableist mod is still a mod of 196. Nice one, protecting racist people.
She doesn't get that it isnt enough to just chastise people, you have to give people being abhorrent the boot, otherwise the problem just continues.
The inability or unwillingness to deal with the various bigotries properly plus just the intense McCarthyism justifies the defed pretty well.
Liberal ineffectivness is gonna lib
Yeah I remember in the beginning of Chapo chat one of the mods was posting edgy atheist style stuff about Islam and they got booted immediately.
Back in the Discord days there was an admin who defended loli and instantly got banned
Uphold TC69 thought
You don't understand how hard it is to find nerds online who want to wield power over others! We NEED the asshole! We're just stuck!
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the people who would leave because of an ableist piece of shit left are bad and I'd be glad that they left.
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carcosa is our federation representative and ambassador, we operate as a unified administration team. I'm not much of a comms person, I think I'm too aggro for that
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Yeah, re-federation isn't happening.
Taking a look, we've got 3+ million comments under the belt, and they have ~30K. We're gonna be alright.
Oof. I didn't realize the disparity was so enormous.
it is like that for almost all the instances iirc because not only are we big, we've been this big or bigger for 3 years, not 2 months
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I think most of them leave and get on with their lives before too long tbh. But I guess there are some
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If you cant keep your mods in line, just close your instance, you’re not fit to run shit
hey Ada, did you ban @Mewtwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone from your instance yet for accusing Hexbear posters of faking being trans?
because if not, you should consider eating my shit and hair
what a fucking loser lol
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Bruh, they said to their mod "Ableism bad" so know that mods knows that they need to refine their ableist beliefs and veil them in language that affords them plausible deniability next time around.
What more can you ask for? An apology??
I've done nothing and I'm all out of ideas
Love to have stern talking to's with a mod the community knows is problematic, keep them in power, and deflect instead of taking responsibility for enabling this shitty behavior
"I chastised that person before restoring their post or just never doing anything, clearly I do more than hexbear"