I’m calling for https://lemmy.ml/u/Beaver@lemmy.ca, the most prolific user of the transgender comm here on lemmy.ml, to be immediately unbanned and nutomic to be removed as admin. It is good and correct to leak the DMs of transphobes.
@dessalines@lemmy.ml @JoeBidet@lemmy.ml @cypherphunks
edit: you can find more info from kristinas post here and beavers post here
edit 2: proof, also beaver was banned from the whole instance modlong
edit 3: For trans people looking for a safer instance, I suggest Hexbear. They have a very active trans user base and are extremely supportive.
@JoeBidet@lemmy.ml @dessalines@lemmy.ml
(someone mentioned to me that posts dont ping properly, sorry if i pinged twice)
As the ‘head mod’ of one of the largest (and certainly safest) trans communities on the fediverse, I absolutely agree.
You can find a post on this issue here https://hexbear.net/post/3129775. To note: nutomic has also had comments removed for defending a defender of pedophilia @theanonymousejoker on lemmy.ml, who is now banned. He’s also been banned on Hexbear for transphobia.
I’m a ‘tankie’, transphobia is unacceptable, being a ‘tankie’, anarchist, woke, socialist, etc. is fine and are the most common political stances trans people take.
This is chauvinism. You are saying the people that help me house the trans homeless are ‘eating my face’. You know nothing but speak confidently.
He technically functionally has the right. Just move instances and leave him in the dust.
Sure, I can do that, but I would prefer every place on fediverse to be trans accepting and not admin’d by transphobes. 🤷♀️
That’s not a right, that’s a privilege, and one that is accorded by this community. Hence, this post, and hopefully revoked ASAP, it seems.
No, it’s a right called ownership. The shit is his. Just leave him in the dust. Don’t give him the power.
I mean, ultimately, yea. He’s not the only admin (and the second most senior AFAICT), and creating a relationship between users and admins/mods is a worthwhile activity. Just walking away whenever mods do something excessive (which is a thing, they’re human, it’s always going to happen) is too passive and destructive.
As a non-trans (IE, not having direct personal stakes as others would) … two salient issues here for me are:
- Ensuring consistency between admin actions and instance rules and culture
- Creating a culture of and expectations around reasonably holding admins/mods to account for their conduct. Overzealous and personal admin/mod actions are a cancer for group-based social media platforms like this. Simply moving is one possible course of action, but a damaging one. Creating feedback loops between users and mods, IMO, is a better way to go, and so trying for that here is worthwhile.
I’m not saying it doesn’t suck. I’m saying you can’t police this guy’s server. He does that. You literally physically cannot. Moving away isn’t damaging to you. It’s damaging to him. These instances live off the community just like Reddit.
Moving away isn’t damaging to you. It’s damaging to him.
Moving can always damage a community. And as I said in my dot points, I think there are real grounds for calling this out as inconsistent with stated rules. The fediverse is about grassroots organisation, not just decentralisation … just walking away is arguably too passive, especially when there are grounds to discuss what’s going on.
Removal as an admin isn’t far enough. Needs a non-negotiable permaban. Unambiguous transphobia simply shouldn’t be tolerated at all.
Preface: I’m a cis guy, so my opinion may be very well invalid
I don’t understand why there aren’t more people arguing for this. Why on earth does a leftist community not instaban someone spewing transphobia, especially so if they’re on a position of power?
It’s really frustrating how often in IRL leftist spaces there is often still quite a lot of (trans)misogyny, often more carefully presented but still kinda there. The whole rejecting pronoun tags for some contrived technical reason strikes me as in that same vein. Most non-leftist spaces are categorically worse, but it still sucks when your hometown communist party is routinely posting cringe about "bourgeois decadence’.
