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:

  • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    On the hexbear side, the dunking thread that directly targeted me was up for over 24 hours despite hexbear having significantly more admins than Blahaj does.

    A dunk thread on one hand, the overall impact isn't big- it's making fun of a specific opinion, post, whatever. I thought it was in bad taste, but at this point I've reconsidered.

    A head mod using ableist insults to shut down someone complaining about ableist insults being commonplace? seems like it's indicating a significantly bigger problem, and this response doesn't seem like it's taking that seriously either.

    not even going to get into the chaser shit, but jesus-christ