kittenzrulz claims that the takeover of this community was entirely over links getting burned out. this post would appear to contradict that.
furthermore, they completely disregarded my points in the questions i asked, particularly around the ideological motive around the changes they made when giving feedback, and failed to respond when i pushed them on the point, despite posting elsewhere.
i would argue that both the mod of this community, and the admin of the instance, are hostile to anarchist and leftist politics, and cannot be trusted. recommend finding a new instance.
The post you linked to by MindTraveller is an active misrepresentation of events.
Traveller and I are not “in agreement” about much of anything. Their politics are very far removed from mine
This is the text of the message I sent advising that I was shutting the group down.
After consideration, I’ve decided that non voters does not really fit the stated goals of blahaj zone. Your motives for creating it seem based on a personal vendetta, and whilst your views are genuine, nothing constructive comes from the community. All it does is create division, because its sole purpose is to target others, without really focusing on any progressive ideas or discussion of its own.
At the moment, it’s causing more harm than good to the overall community.
I’ll leave the community open, so that if you choose to set the community up on another instance, you will have the opportunity to direct them to the new location.
Given the post which you linked, (which I had not seen until now) I will be removing Traveller and the new community, because once more, the goal appears to be to create division
My goal of blahaj zone is not political. The goal is to allow trans people to have a space where they can exist on their own terms, without having to pretend to be someone they’re not. My own political views are closer to Links/LibertyHub than nonvoters or its ilk. Yet as long as there is no bigotry or gatekeeping, then trans people with politics at odds with my own are welcome. It’s why we have an “armed queers” community, despite my own strong distaste for gun culture.
Communities/posters that exist primary to create division, without adding anything positive back, have no place here.
When I hear “My goal of blahaj zone is not political,” I hear “I want my group to have no immune system so that fascism can insidiously sneak in past our noses.”
If I said “politics has no place on blahaj zone” that would be a fair accusation.
But politics explicitly has a place on blahaj zone, precisely because of the impact it has on the lives our community. It needs to be talked about. Politics has a place here, because it has to have a place here. But it’s not the primary reason the space exists.
Your goal for the entire site is non-political. Being a safe space for trans people is a political goal, intrinsically, in my opinion. Do you have a wildly different definition of “political” than the one I’m using?
well thank you for clarifying and doing this much, i guess. but frankly this hasn’t been a safe place, none of this situation has been okay and i’m extremely not comfortable with grail’s behaviour as well. i’ve moved to hexbear despite my political differences with them and they’re honestly creating a far safer and more welcoming space for me as an anarchist and trans person. like seriously sort this place out if you want it to be safe for trans people. it currently is not.
like seriously sort this place out if you want it to be safe for trans people. it currently is not.
Hexbear is only safe for trans folks whose politics don’t clash too strongly with theirs. They have a whole community dedicated to dunking on folk who disagree with them, and that includes trans folk. If you step too far from what they deem acceptable, harassing and dogpiling is seen as an acceptable response.
Many of the trans folks on blahaj zone, despite being left aligned, would be deemed to be “libs” by Hexbear, and actively harassed until they left.
If you think that it’s ok that the majority of folk on this instance (well, the majority of trans folk anywhere to be honest) are valid targets for harassment, I don’t know what to tell you other than we have very different ideas of what trans safety looks like.
I’ve seen you repeat this three times now and I don’t understand why you feel the need to exaggerate so heavily.
You can look the posts up, they’re in the first ten pages of the top year posts (i.e. since hexbear started federation with other instances). Or don’t, and you can continue scaring people away from from a place that aggressively moderates to keep its trans users away from bad actors at the first sign of trouble.
Mindtraveller was nothing but supportive of Me the other day when I was being misgendered and grilled on My pronouns by other users. The only other people who were acting like trans allies were yourself and the two mods of this community. And I’m very grateful to you for removing the comments and kittenzrulz for allowing Me to return to this community. But Mindtraveller did something different, which was being deeply vocal about trans inclusivity, and I needed to hear that. It helped Me deal with the anxiety I get when I’m exposed to that sort of thing. Who’s going to yell at transphobes and run c/soulism if they’re gone?
Also it looks from this thread like the mods of this community are allowing Mindtraveller to be a member, since they have a comment in this thread. They say they’re cooperating with the mods of Liberty Hub and there’s not going to be any more infighting. Where’s the division?
Also it looks from this thread like the mods of this community are allowing Mindtraveller to be a member, since they have a comment in this thread. They say they’re cooperating with the mods of Liberty Hub and there’s not going to be any more infighting. Where’s the division?
The mod(singular since the soulists chased the others out) is probably inactive and may also have been chased out because of the aftermath.
The division is how midtraveler is constantly starting arguments with people who don’t share their views. If hexbear gets defederated for this behavior, why did midtraveler get an admin endorsement when it only caused more division?
The division is how midtraveler is constantly starting arguments with people who don’t share their views. If hexbear gets defederated for this behavior
Hexbear was defederated because they allow dunking and targetting of folk they don’t agree with. They were defederated because of their dogpiling.
MindTraveller’s community was allowed to exist on the explicit provision that it didn’t do that.
And then it was removed when it became clear it was doing nothing but damaging the community.
Telling people to use a trans person’s preferred pronouns isn’t starting an argument. The arguments were started when those people misgendered Me. There’s nothing wrong with responding negatively to transphobia. I’m very grateful that they did. It really helped with My mental health.
