I’m gonna get real with you folks, we’ve had way too many of these posts recently. I’ve been reflecting on this topic a lot the past few days. For me personally, I couldn’t care less about my gender identity. But just because that’s true for me, doesn’t make that true for everyone.

The beauty of the fediverse is that if you don’t like the way a particular instance or community is moderated you can simply choose another to hang out on, or create your own.

Blajah has made it pretty clear by now they will ban anyone who argues against the validity of xenogenders, in order to create a safe space for those folks. That’s fair enough imo.

Safe spaces should be respected, and Blajah’s admins/mods do not deserve abuse for creating and maintaining those spaces.

I can completely understand why Blajah users don’t want to have to constantly argue with external users about the validity of their chosen identities. Bans are one way Blajah has decided to manage that problem so that their users can experience lemmy in relative peace and safety. While it is a blunt tool and I have my reservations about preemptive bans, there are not many other options for @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone, other than defederation from most instances. That would be a terrible outcome for the fediverse as a whole.

In order to help Blajah to maintain their safe space, I would like to propose, if @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com agrees and community sentiment is positive:

  • that we no longer accept posts about this topic in this community; and
  • we also remove previous posts on this topic from the community.

That’s all folks, have at 'er.

  • anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    142·
    12 hours ago

    I have a related question:

    Where do the users who get banned from YPTB go, when they eventually get banned from YPTB?

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
      155·
      12 hours ago

      I think it would be funny if there was a rule that the only way to get banned from YPTB was by coming in and saying “well, it’s the moderators’ community, so they can really do anything they want and you’re wrong for disagreeing with them in any way.” And then that person could get banned with reason “Okey dokey then.”

      I don’t think it’s actually a good idea. Freedom to say whatever in YPTB, even if you’re being kind of obnoxious about it, seems important, and imitating bad behavior to make a point is still bad behavior. I just think it would be funny.

      • OccultIconoclast@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Back in the day, Dragon Rider actually got banned from YPTB for starting too much drama, as db0 put it.

        Didn’t seem to work.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      410·
      12 hours ago

      There is a mod hot allert community…

      On fedi there is always a place to go. Start your own community on a obscure server !

      That’s how decentralization works… Vote with your feet.

      Isolationist communities will lose on the long run anyway.