I’m calling for https://lemmy.ml/u/[email protected], the most prolific user of the transgender comm here on lemmy.ml, to be immediately unbanned and nutomic to be removed as admin. It is good and correct to leak the DMs of transphobes.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @cypherphunks
edit: you can find more info from kristinas post here and beavers post here
edit 2: proof, also beaver was banned from the whole instance modlong
edit 3: For trans people looking for a safer instance, I suggest Hexbear. They have a very active trans user base and are extremely supportive.
As the ‘head mod’ of one of the largest (and certainly safest) trans communities on the fediverse, I absolutely agree.
You can find a post on this issue here https://hexbear.net/post/3129775. To note: nutomic has also had comments removed for defending a defender of pedophilia @theanonymousejoker on lemmy.ml, who is now banned. He’s also been banned on Hexbear for transphobia.
Removal as an admin isn’t far enough. Needs a non-negotiable permaban. Unambiguous transphobia simply shouldn’t be tolerated at all.
Preface: I’m a cis guy, so my opinion may be very well invalid
I don’t understand why there aren’t more people arguing for this. Why on earth does a leftist community not instaban someone spewing transphobia, especially so if they’re on a position of power?
It’s really frustrating how often in IRL leftist spaces there is often still quite a lot of (trans)misogyny, often more carefully presented but still kinda there. The whole rejecting pronoun tags for some contrived technical reason strikes me as in that same vein. Most non-leftist spaces are categorically worse, but it still sucks when your hometown communist party is routinely posting cringe about "bourgeois decadence’.
♫ EXCISE THE VULGAR MATERIALIST ♫
♫ FOR THE STRUGGLE OF THE CLASS ♫
♫ EXCISE THE VULGAR MATERIALIST ♫
♫ HE REFUSES TO CLEAN HIS ASS ♫
Thanks. Dealt with on our end
As someone that was there for Nutopic’s defense of loli/CSAM I am disappointed this person is still an admin. No amount of bigotry should be tolerated just because the bigot is a “good” dev.
I say good in quotations because we have seen time and again how bias on the side of developers influences the way a platform developes wrt the concerns of oppressed groups. A prime example is one of the Mastadon devs failing to provide POC and other minority groups effective tools to combat bigotry and track offenders.
When I think of the Lemmy dev team, I’m always reminded of Mao’s Combat Liberalism. They should really give that a good read.
God damn, I agree with Marcie.
Nutomic should self-crit and step back
man “leaked private messages” is such a weak fucking excuse in the face of transphobia. @[email protected] you realize you’re just alienating a huge fucking number of comrades? not just trans people, but all those that rightfully stand with us too.
edit: nutomic you absolutely can come back from this if you don’t double down. accept your shit, and work on it. and you know what that would be great to see, there’s not enough of that in the world.
if not then @[email protected] and other core devs, i think you have a tough decision to make. i absolutely do not envy you. though do keep in mind that handling this correctly will solidify even tighter community support behind the Lemmy project.
we need more good comrades behind ActivityPub development :p
Agreeing with you here, I’m wondering if this can spawn a broader project to try to alter the relationship between the admins, mods and users.
More and better feedback loops and grassroots organisation and less “admins and mods own this, take it or leave it” culture.
In the end, I think this comes down to poor admin/mod practice and poor community leadership where many of the users here would just like to make sure things are better.
I’m just an occasional lurker here so I’m pretty out of the loop, but wouldn’t it make more sense to just migrate to an instance without an openly transphobic admin? Isn’t being able to do that supposed to be one of the big advantages of a federated service?
but wouldn’t it make more sense to just migrate to an instance without an openly transphobic admin
That’s really just too passive for me at least, much prefer to occupy a space and make the transphobes leave.
Not that I disagree with anything in this post but I would like to point out that Nutomic is, IIRC, the literal creator and dev of Lemmy itself.
We don’t need their software.
Sublinks, crafted using Java Spring Boot, stands as a state-of-the-art link aggregation platform, reminiscent yet advanced compared to Lemmy & Kbin.
It features a Lemmy compatible API, allowing for seamless integration and migration for existing Lemmy users.
Im all but convinced sublinks is a grift trying to capitalize on the failures of reddit and wants to poach as much of the users from lemmy (especially lemmy.world) as possible. Their reasoning for creating this clone is extremely flimsy, “not enough mod tools” and before submitting any patches or attempts to improve lemmy they want to reinvent the whole system from scratch. Their stated reason for that “they don’t want to learn rust” also is very weird considering that it would be less effort to learn rust (especially if you already have a professional coding background) and submit patches to lemmy.
Instead they reinvent the wheel with the notable difference being that they are using a license that would allow a corporation to monetize the content whereas the lemmy license disallows this for it and any derivatives of it. Which is what I think is the real reason for the rewrite.
Also they have stated that while they will have lemmy compatibility in the beginning they will move away from it later which just sounds like a classic embrace, extend and extinguish move.
Edit: not poach users from lemmy.world but rather move the lemmy.world userbase to its platform where they can monetize it. It’s funny that you already have to basically submit a job application there (complete with resume of you past jobs lol) if you want to be a mod, although probably unrelated.
Oh god … this happened?!
non-trans person sharing their perhaps invalid and uninformed opinions
As someone who was calling for easing up on dogpiling on nutomic in that thread, banning beaver here, and the instance, is IMO not ok, at all.
Nutomic, you were probably pissed off about the leaking, I think most would get that. But as an admin here and a core dev, I think you have to do way way better than use your admin rights here as a weapon against someone you no longer like and who posted on another instance. If you think there’s a situation to sort out, it’s gotta be done more openly than this.
Rule 1 of this instance (against transphobia) probably applies.
No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
As in, this moderation action was likely against instance rules. How else is a minority community to combat their oppressors than post about what ever communication they receive? To punish them for that communication however inappropriate it would have been from a less oppressed person is therefore punishing them and then coming under rule 1.
There were plenty of other ways to handle this. Banning a user looks a lot like petty and unreliable admin-ing. Especially when the issue of whether you are a transphobe is on the table and instead of addressing that you’ve chosen use your power against the transgender community here.
I get that leaking personal chats is always a dodgy thing, but in this case, I really hope the lemmy ml admins sort this out.
It’s really bad to weaponise admin powers against an oppressed minority. Certainly makes me question my membership here and the admins values. And is a particularly bad look for an instance many are criticising for having power crazy admins, most of which is red scare crap but totally justified in this case I suspect.
[I’m neither transgender nor a tankie, but instead just a rando browsing “all” who has no dog in this fight (aside from a general preference toward egalitarianism and against bigotry). I’m only commenting because this appears to be starting to spill over into issues that are relevant to the Fediverse at large.]
Nutomic, you were probably pissed off about the leaking, I think most would get that.
Hell no, not even a little bit! There’s no such thing as “leaking” a PM* because the recipient has the right to publicize it! It’s fucking nuts to send a message to somebody – especially one that pisses them off – and then expect them to keep it secret for the sender’s benefit. If the sender doesn’t like it, his recourse is to not fucking send the message in the first place!
The notion that the recipient of a PM has any kind of obligation toward the sender is the dumbest fucking thing I’ve read on this site in a while, and that’s saying a lot since I’ve been reading about Trump and shit. Actually going so far as to ban somebody for a reason so pants-on-head moronic is absolutely beyond the pale.
By the way, I’m assuming that you (@maegal) are saying things like “I get that leaking personal chats is always a dodgy thing” because you’re trying to be charitable to better persuade Nutomic. If you actually believe that nonsense, then you need to get your head screwed on correctly, too.
(* unless somebody hacks the server to obtain PMs that he wasn’t a party to, which I assume is not what we’re talking about here.)
Hexbear is 100% the safest for trans people on the fediverse, I definitely suggest heading there if you want a safer place. Its admin’d by a lot of trans people and has an extremely active trans community with thousands of comments and messages per day
I’m on lemmy.ml because I like checking all trans spaces on the fediverse, but obviously with a transphobe in charge that makes that harder. Of course, that also means wading through a lot of horseshit from transphobic trolls, which I’m hoping to help with
I ventured out of hexbear once, just to see what other coms I was missing out on due to defederation. I quickly came back once I saw all of the “horseshit” as you mentioned. It just wasn’t worth it for my psychological health.
He technically functionally has the right. Just move instances and leave him in the dust.
Sure, I can do that, but I would prefer every place on fediverse to be trans accepting and not admin’d by transphobes. 🤷♀️
Yeah well you’re not in control of that guy’s servers. He can do what he wants. Why stay? Staying defeats the point of the fediverse. Why give him the time of day?
You understand what the ml in lemmy.ml stands for right? You’re enemies by ideology.
I’m an ml 😎
The admins of other instances can’t help you stop tagging random ppl.
They can defed, which I wholly suggest if nutomic isn’t removed.
You’re enemies by ideology
As Marx and Lenin said in Chapter 7 of “Marxu no Leninu kotaku tokadimasai”: “uwu uwu uwu uwu uwu uwu uwu uwu transphobia is based uwu uwu uwu uwu uwu uwu”
Just in case, /s
The first rule of lemmy . ml:
Bigotry, transphobia, racism, nationalism, and chauvinism are not allowed.
