Seems like Blahaj is defederating from Feddit.uk due to insufficent moderation of transphobia.

dbz has always had an almost even split of weirdos and decent people. But they get a lot of influence from the lemm.ee and .world types, so a lot of threads on there go a bad direction. Also their political (and adjacent) communities are overrun by liberals. Their climate and ecology ones don't allow any criticism of Democrats, for example.

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I made an account there maybe two years ago, they can generally be alright but a far cry from the glorious posters of hexbear. I only really use it these days to see what's happening on .world and the general lib-sphere that we aren't fedded with.

Dbz the user is an insufferable debatelord who barely hides their contempt for you while posturing as jaqing off. Who was rightfully banned here around a year ago due to said tendencies (that I may or may not have got them to mask off on).

Dbz the forum is pretty chill. Little to Reddit for my liking, but not terrible.

Are we talking cooler like people say James Dean was cool, or cool like a fridge?

for reasons i can't put my finger on

Communists tend to have principles. We die on some really dumb hills sometimes, but liberals will concede on everything all the time.

I find the sexualisation of trans people on blahaj uncomfortable, and when I still was on there I saw a lot of unmoderated sexism and ableism.

The 196 community in general has weird vibes, I’ve heard that the 196 subreddit has many vaush fans and vaush himself is just a really weird dude who normalises fetishising trans people and drawn child sexual assault material. The lemmy 196 community is a spinoff of the subreddit and the largest community on blahaj (last time I checked). I’ve had discussions with people there who linked to vaush videos as ‘source’ for why it’s ok to behave like a jerk be ableist. I think vaush is a horrible guy and his community is toxic, and some of the main posters and mods on blahaj are part of that toxic community which explains why a lot of the problematic stuff doesn’t get removed.

There's been some bad blood since when they were federated and the (old) 196 mods were particularly shitty, example: https://hexbear.net/post/363529/3762934

Since then there's been new 196 mods because the old 196 tried to force-migrate the whole comm to .world.

The majority of the moderation team of /c/196 was cis, which gives you a general idea of how fucked the vibes are at that lemmy instance.

Admins wrote a small summary here explaining the reasons why we defeded from blajah.zone: https://hexbear.net/post/369410

I've watched some UK TV programs so I consider myself on expert on British culture and I can't figure out why they are so shitty about this issue in particular, even compared to Burgerland.

more than some

I used to think that people who called out the missing space, even when the writer was obviously not bigoted, were going a bit overboard. But thanks to this anomaly of a transphobe, I can clearly see why this is necessary now.

To them a transwoman is a man identifying as a woman instead of a woman with the medical condition of being trans.

In his next comment he used the phrase: "previously being a biological male and now identifying as a woman", which actually makes me more angry than straight-up calling us men.

Because what thit implies is that, even if there was some magical thing that could turn us completely cis, he would still claim that we aren’t real women because we’ve not always been this way. Just completely othering us.

So it’s kinda nice to at least once see a transphobe acknowledge that we are biologically female, but on the other hand, JUST FUCK THIS GUY, SERIOUSLY!

His reply to the admin explaining to him how "trans" is an adjective starts off with this: ::: spoiler more transphobia

I don’t use the term cis. I use the term woman and you knew exactly what I meant. A blonde woman is a description of a woman’s hair colour and is a semantic-based response that is nothing to do with this point. You know this; it’s a foolish riposte that’s nothing at all to do with the clear and simple fact that a woman who used to be a man is not the same thing as a (cis) woman.

I can call it a woman who used to have a penis or a woman who used to be a man if you want me to be pedantic about it. Nothing to do with hair colour, or skin colour, or anything else except previously being a biological male and now identifying as a woman. ::: So you’re spot-on with the phrase "transforming adjectives into exclusionary essentialist dogma".

He calls us biologically female and he’s also willing to call us women, but only if he can add the dislaimer about our past. His dogmatic worldviews just don’t allow him to acknowledge us as just women, no matter what.

I want to see the woke religious bigot.

God wants trans people to transition! In fact, he DEMANDS it! If you're trans and you don't transition, you will burn in HELL for all Eternity!

Me to future transphobes: "Get the fuck inside there! NOW!"

We're the best though.

federated beef is never our fault, other people are wrong.

struggle sessions are a different outdoor cat.

Are we still federated with feddit? If we are some of the stuff other people are posting in this thread combined with Ada's post leaves me to believe we should probably consider following suit in solidarity if nothing else.