If only I could give you mine!
That's because from a mastodon perspective, that's what they are!
They're basically the same thing as gup.pe groups to them
She's transphobic, misogynistic and appealing to reverse racism. She's just a bigot
Hey, I'm not a grandma yet!
You are the only moderator of both communities you moderate, so it sounds like a display bug
did imply that feddit.uk admins were slow to react and did not see this as priority.
That's an accurate summary of my claims. No part of that suggests transphobia however.
who described your statement as mischaracterization.
Likely because said admin knew they were talking about it as a team and believed they were addressing my questions. They just neglected to tell me that part, and just stopped responding to me.
You are absolutely welcome to maintain an account on another instance and here if you want to have the option of having those discussions. And I don't mean that in a "Well, there's the door" way. What I'm trying to say is that if you don't want to have the types of conversations you're talking about, it's currently very hard to find spaces that make that possible. That's why lbz exists in the form it does. However, I completely understand that some people do want that opportunity. And if that's you, you're welcome to maintain multiple accounts. You'll always have a space here, but you can also use instances that give you access to less protective spaces.
but Blåhaj can't demand that their rules be enforced in other instances.
Didn't ask them to, nor have I asked any other instances to defederate from feddit.uk. What I asked for is clarification of how they implement their own rules, in order for me to decide whether or not LBZ stays federated with them.
The truth is, transphobia is now legal in the UK. UK instance admins are in a hard spot, because removing transphobia that is institutionally protected in their own country is now a lot more complex.
However, it's not more complex for blahaj zone. We don't allow transphobia. End of story. And if the difficult situation feddit.uk finds themselves in means they will allow transphobia that aligns with the UKs legislation, I'm not going to tell them they should do otherwise. I would hope they do otherwise, but ultimately, it's their call. However, if the call they make is to allow legal transphobia, we will remain defederated to minimise the transphobia that reaches the blahaj zone community.
And you won't see me telling any other admins they have to make the same choice we do.
The power of federation is that people have the choice. If people, trans or not, are happy to wade in to debate with transphobes, there are options for them to do that. Or, there are instances like blahaj zone, where they don't have to play whack a mole with every new transphobe that appears.
To be clear, at the time of defederation, they had not answered my question.
In response to my initial general question, I was told their preference is to let push back come via comments and votes.
I then provided links to posts in which someone explicitly stated trans women aren't women alongside several common transphobic dog whistles. I pointed out that one of the posts has more upvotes than downvotes, suggesting that social pushback isn't working, and asked for clarification on whether or not posts like that would be removed.
At this point, I got radio silence. I was not advised the admin team was discussing it, the posts were not removed and the admin who I was talking to was active elsewhere. After waiting nearly two days for a reply despite having mentioned this was serious enough to defederate over on two separate occasions, I made the assumption I wasn't going to get a reply, and defederated.
I'm happy to write that off as miscommunication though, given that they were talking as a team. If they ultimately decide that posts explicitly stating that trans women are not women will be removed, we will refederate
If you're concerned about implications, you need to be careful of your own, because you're implying that I think the feddit.uk admins are transphobic, when I think no such thing. They actively pushed back against transphobia in their comments, and not in a half hearted manner. They are quite clearly not transphobic.
However, leaving transphobia visible, even whilst pushing back against it is against their own instance rules, and allows transphobes to know they can safely post more transphobia in the future, as long as they keep it civil. And that last part is the bit that initiated defederation.
The right being lost isn't the right to play sports. It's the right to equality.
And it's great that your for something that isn't going to happen in our lifetimes. But in the mean time, trans people have to navigate the situation we do have.
I guess we won't be ordering from the McDonald's drive-thru any time soon!
Image description: A shot of Toombul Shopping Center taken at dusk. A large construction machine sits to the left of the photo, and the up-ramp that used to lead to the McDonalds drive-thru has been completely demolished.
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Navidrome/Subsonic client that supports smart playlists within smart playlists
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[OC] Red-crested Cardinal (Paroaria coronata) - Buenos Aires, Argentina - December 2023
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/9762387
Image description: A small sparrow sized bird with a red head, and pointed crest, standing on pavement, with some moss in its beak
#AvesArgentinas #birds #DailyBird #cardinal
In the last 24 hours you've likely noticed that we've had some performance issues on Blåhaj Lemmy.
The initial issue occurred as a result of our hosting provider having technical problems. We use Hetzner, who provides hosting for approximately a third of the fediverse, so there was wide spread chaos above and beyond us.
As of lemmy 19.x, messages queue rather than getting silently dropped when an instance is down, so once Hetzner resolved their issues, we had a large backlog of jobs to process. Whilst we were working through the queues, we were operational, but laggy, and our messages were an hour or more behind. These queues aren't just posts and replies, but also include votes, so there can be a large volume of them, each one of which needs to be remotely verified with the sending instance as we process it, so geographical latency also plays a part.
As you can see from the graph, we are finally through the majority of the queues.
The exception is lemmy.world. Unfortunately, the lemmy platform processes incoming messages on a sequential basis (think of it as a sequential queue for each remote instance), which means Blahaj Lemmy can't process a second lemmy.world message until we've finished processing the first message.
Due to the size of Lemmy.world they are sending us new queue items almost as fast as our instance can process them, so the queue is coming down, but slowly! In practical terms, this means that lemmy.world communities are going to be several hours behind for the next few days.
For those that are interested, there is a detailed technical breakdown of a similar problem currently being experienced by reddthat, that explores the impact of sequential processing and geographical latency.
And there's Nik Dimopoulos, the gay guy that lived next to a queer bookshop. Police broke in to his apartment, failed to identify themselves and then fractured his arm so bad that bone in his upper arm was broken in to multiple pieces. And he wasn't the guy they were looking for....