I’m trans and I really don’t want to federated with these people if their mods are defending the -tard suffix and they aren’t getting de-modded and banned. I also don’t want to be federated with them if they ban critiquing western chauvinism.

Someone who is an admin and with more of a level head than me RN please talk to their admins about it.

  • WhatWouldKarlDoEnglish
    29·
    1 year ago

    Is this engaging in good faith?

    I’m naive to the complexities of tankies and their beliefs, and was unwilling to defederate over political issues that I am only familiar with at a surface level. Doubly so, given that no queer folk were highlighting them as a source of ongoing queerphobia

    However, I did a deep dive in to some of the content on lemmygrad, and it crossed the line to more than political differences. (Which to be fair is what people had been telling me)

    • SootyChimney [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      I can’t claim to be aware of all posts they ever made, I suppose I just meant in the Hexbear-Blahaj discussions I’ve seen, Ada seemed to consistently be the one trying to make for productive relations. I very much agree that isn’t a great take.

      • WhatWouldKarlDoEnglish
        20·
        1 year ago

        She’s flat out saying that she prefers the company of nazis. That’s not being productive.

        • CriticalResist8 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          18·
          1 year ago

          Reminds me of when we ran a demos survey on lemmygrad we found out 50% of our users are LGBT and overall 10% of our users are trans. Meanwhile when Beehaw ran theirs, they didn’t even dare to separate cis and trans identities on the survey.

          Blahaj, I await your demographics survey results.

          • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
            10·
            1 year ago

            hexbear was 70% LGBT+ and something like 1/3 trans, from a demographic survey we did a year ago. I’m still livid that users on blahaj were accusing us of not being queer without copping bans.

            • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
              4·
              1 year ago

              Hexbear is the only online community I’ve ever been a part of where I sometimes feel like the odd one out as a straight cis dude, and it’s done me all sorts of good.

              The blue stuffed shark can fuck right off.