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I've noticed a lack of a general purpose trans community on this instance. The transfem community is disproportionately bigger than the trans masc is, so it seems logical to me that we combine for a general-purpose trans community, similar to r/trans for things that aren't specific to either.

Is there any interest for this idea? Does it already exist on here?

Update: I have created the community. Post away! https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/trans

I'm not able to log on to my blahaj zone account, and the website in general does not seem accessible anymore. Does anyone else here have similar issues, or did I miss a maintainance notification? (Posting from my alt, since I can't log in)

I've been trying to register for an account for lemmy.blahaj.zone. On my PC, the only thing I can find is an instance titled blahaj.zone. I tried signing up for that and it worked, but the site is this weird Tumblr knockoff instead of what I'm used to with instances and communities. I have no idea how to navigate this thing. Where the hell are all the communities??? Why is it just users posting stuff to their followers???

Is lemmy.blahaj.zone affiliated with blahaj.zone? If not, why can't I access lemmy.blahaj.zone on my computer? I am posting on jeroba for Lemmy on my phone since that is the only place that's letting me access lemmy.blahaj.zone (but won't let me log on with the account I made on blahaj.zone on my computer).

Can someone help me with this/explain what's going on? I'm very confused.

Thanks.

EDIT: Lemmy.blahaj.zone is back up. Horray

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Hey. I've been getting blasted lately from my trans friends who use this platform, and I've been through a real rough patch as of lately, so I've been taking it really badly. I just wanted to clear the air - that isn't me that made those comments.

Personally, I don't even care about this subject, but my mental health hasn't been good and this only made it worse. I've pissed a lot of people off but this isn't something I'd ever say or do.

Idk exactly how I'd convince you of this but to save my mental fortitude I'm not gonna explain any further.

What am I supposed to do? Say, "oh no, this isn't me. Please don't hate me."

If you believe me, I don't care. If you don't, I don't care either. I'm only doing this so people stop harassing me.

It's this type of drama I left lemmy for, and I'm not of the mental capacity to deal with it more.

So if you'd excuse me, I'll go back to not using this account anymore.

Since my post is confusing, tl;dr. This is my account. It has been since June. I do not have a blahaj account. Someone used my name here and posted weird comments.

People don't stop being trans because you disagree with them politically. I despise Jenner and other high profile trans grifters but I'm not shitty enough to deny their identities.

Do better. As a user of both sites this shit is genuinely upsetting. Despite how you may feel about hexbear, how can you claim that they bait people into revealing their internalized transphobia and then turn around and make shitty claims like this? I don't give a shit if you call me a tankie or red fash or whatever, but I'm trans whether you like me or not.

I was banned from lemmy.world for “personal attacks” for 3 days because of calling someone a “piece of shit” after they called me a “cunt”. The comment calling me a cunt wasn’t removed and the user hasn’t been punished at all by the lemmy.world admins.

The comments in question:

Lemmy.world modlog:

In the interest of full disclosure, this is my other comment that was removed:

And here’s the comment of that user I was referencing, in the Blahaj modlog after it was removed:

This feels like an overreach, especially when the admin clearly didn’t feel it was important to punish their own user for “personal attacks” in the same thread.

Ever since I joined 6 Months ago, I've had the issue where comments or entire posts won't show up. Recently it has gotten even worse, where it feels like I can only see 20% of what lemmy has to offer...

To be a bit more exact, the Comment Count under posts and the total posts of a Community are always far more then what is actually there. Furthermore, if I post something and someone comments under it, I can read the comment in the inbox, but if I click on it to open it under the post itself, it simply isn't there. Thats also why im certain that all those missing posts and comments are actually there, just not displayed

I believe non of those stem from defederated places. The only idea I could come up with is that back when I first joined, there was a discussion around some language settings that could screw with that for some reason. But nowadays I can't find those threads, so I figured I'd ask here.

Thanks!

It seems that the issue was resolved behind closed doors, so it could have been resolved behind closed doors to begin with, and then if the defederation was to go ahead simply announce the defederation.

Making an announcement "it will be defederated in 48 hours" made for this weird countdown drama thread (we even had programming.dev people show up and be sad about defederation!) that didn't really go anywhere, and then y'all just locked it when we refederated and made it clear that you were never interested in input and you'll be running the instance as you please (which is well within your rights of course). So what was the point of the thread?

I can see how it is nice to have warning if a community you're involved in is going to be defederated, but it also drags drama to our nice little corner of the fediverse, and pins it at the top of our feeds for all to see. In fact it shows up as the top of every feed for me, Local, All, and Subscribed. I can't get away from it.

Every time these threads show up they end up blowing up. Honestly, if you didn't make these threads, I wouldn't care who you defederate. But because the thread exists, I have to come in and I have to have an opinion. That's a personal issue and I recognize that, but I would hazard a guess that I'm not the only one. People who have never interacted with Blahaj nor the instance getting defederated show up in these threads sometimes. These threads invite drama, and for me personally, whenever they come up they make this space feel significantly less safe and make me want to leave Lemmy as a whole because it feels like it's just nonstop defederation drama for days at a time, but it's pinned at the top of my feed.

Maybe these threads actually provide utility, and I should just take these threads as a sign I should take a break from the Internet for a bit. But to me, they just seem like they're all downsides.

Update: In light of the programming.dev update here https://programming.dev/post/8399272, the defederation is no longer going ahead.

However, something more needs to be said. Even here on Blahaj, some of our users took issue with the choice to defederate over this issue.

So I would like to give some background and context.

Blahaj Zone exists, because both Kaity and I left mainstream social media to escape transphobia. Reddit, with its lackluster approach to fighting transphobia, and twitter, with its outright celebration of transphobia pushed us here, to the fediverse, and to create Blahaj Zone and Blahaj Lemmy.

To that end, we will continue to treat transphobia seriously. Our goal is to create a space where gender diverse folk can exist and let our defenses down a little, where we don't have to worry about getting dragged in to an argument with a transphobe, or a bad faith actor "just asking questions".

If you are looking for a more reddit like experience, where in the interest of increased engagement, we let low level transphobia slide, and push responsibility for dealing with it on to community mods and individual users, then you will likely not be happy with blahaj going forward. If you choose to stay here, understand that we may defederate again in the future over similar issues.

The choice is yours.

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It has recently been brought to my attention that the lead admin of programming.dev is engaging in ongoing transphobia.

You can see the conversation in question here https://programming.dev/comment/6131539

For that reason we will be defederating from programming.dev in 48 hours.

There are only three communities on that instance used by small number of our users, so this won't have a big impact, but if you are one of those users, you will need to use an alt account on another instance if you wish to access the communities.

Today is the first Lemmy cake day for @supakaity and myself, which means that it's a year since Blåhaj Lemmy went live!

At the time, it was pretty much a two (one) person instance that Kaity spun up as a side project when I mentioned that I was enjoying Lemmy.

Back then the threadiverse was super quiet, and Blåhaj Lemmy was only really used by me. Sign ups were open, but everyone that wanted to use Lemmy was already set up on other instances, so we didn't get many signs ups, and those that did join tended to stop using their accounts, because the Threadiverse was so quiet.

And then Reddit happened and things have never been the same since! Mass sign ups, technical struggles with our rapid and unexpected growth, inter instance dramas, it was a very interesting few months!

But now, after the teething issues, we have an active, vibrant and inclusive queer community that has eclipsed Blåhaj Zone itself!

Thank you to everyone that has been a part of that! And here's to our next year!

Feliz año a todes!

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For example (NSFW/NSFL) https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/4804997 or https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/4795872

this might be an attempt to get blahaj defederated. One of them does not seem to be too fond of trans people. Ex 2: 4805706

There seems to be a wave of accounts from this instance spamming/brigading comments everywhere. I know one of them @cobson@lemmy.blahaj.zone has been spamming already. But now there is another spamming pictures of checks notes nikocado avocado's anus everywhere. soot@lemmy.blahaj.zone (check profile and comment history at your own risk). Somebody seems to be raiding this instance and many others through different accounts so i just wanted to warn you all.

Good luck with dealing with this

It's spamming random words and pictures in the comments. Please ban ASAP. Thanks.

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My school blocks blahaj.zonr due to "hosting pornography" but I've never seen that kind of content on this website ( I have nsfw hidden, but still) and the rules don't mention nsfw anywhere. I live in Europe if that helps.

Hello, i was trying to upload an image to a post i was gonna make but it seems i cannot upload images It just gives me a message that says "SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data", is anyone else having the same issue?

When I try to access the modlog through lemmy.blahaj.zone/modlog I just get taken to a blank page that says 'Server error' and nothing else. Is this happening for anyone else?

not sure if this is the correct place to say this but i wanted to say that this is a nice instance and wanted to say that i'm glad i joined here, it's pretty good

thought i could show appreciation is all, lol

Sometimes I see a post that could really use a downvote, but I can't downvote it. I really think being able to downvote posts that are not great (rascism, tankieism, dumbass takes, etc) is a really cathartic experience and I miss having it from my old instance.

I understand wanting to remove downvotes to combat negativity, but I don't think it's a good idea. When YouTube removed dislikes, people missed having them.

Edit: A lot of people are replying to this saying that if someone posts hateful content, I should just block and report them. Which I don’t disagree with, but there’s always content that’s annoying enough to want to downvote, but not bad enough to go against the rules of the sub. I’d rather just downvote that sort of thing and go on my way than leave a comment saying “shit’s cringe, yo”.

Lemmy.world just purged access to a lot of piracy communities across the fediverse for its users. They say it's against rule 1 of their code of conduct, which says no illegal content. And it's also getting more and more illegal to post gay and trans speech in the US. Are they going to start enforcing the Don't Say Gay bill on lemmy?