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:
What I'd like to see is for 196 to feck off to its own instance. I wanted to see this ever since 196 first discussed starting its own instance and relocating there.
As other people have noted, the vast majority of Blåhaj Lemmy's traffic is in 196, and this evidently gives 196 too much power over the rest of Blåhaj Lemmy. Replacing the 196 mod isn't enough; Blåhaj Lemmy just needs to kiss its main source of traffic goodbye entirely, if it wants to build an actual trans space, instead of a space for people to pretend to be allies.