Recently the site has become full of transphobic and conspiracy garbage, as well as a campaign for Ron DeSantis.

Their admin doesn’t seem to give two shits about any of this he’s just letting it happen without any intervention. Defederating them would benefit this community greatly.

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
    74·
    1 year ago

    I sent a DM to the admin yesterday. If they don’t respond or address the issue, we will be defederating.

    • PowerfulTurtle@rammy.siteBEnglish
      201·
      1 year ago

      It’s a shame it had to come to this, I liked rammy.site very stable and almost never goes out, why do bigots have to ruin everything for us…

      • Pratai@lemmy.caEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        It’s their plan. Sort of like how they trash the comment sections of posts on Reddit until they get the post locked. They don’t want free speech used to talk about how they’re cowardly little shit examples of human beings.

        • PowerfulTurtle@rammy.siteBEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Yep they trash smaller instances until larger ones defederate them and all the users on them. I’m thankful I don’t have many posts or comments on my account but it absolutely sucks that I’m going to need to find another probably less reliable server.

          Any suggestions for good servers to use as my new home server? I can’t really host one because I have potato internet in a mobile unit (don’t believe what they say, Starlink is absolutely awful) and I also don’t really want to buy a static IP. Just want a small instance with good uptime like rammy did but better moderation.

          • 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓼@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            12·
            1 year ago

            i mean

            i picked blahaj as my main and have felt vindicated in that choice repeatedly

            the admins moderation and federation stances are solid imo

            and they know what theyre doing on the technical front too so i dont expect downtime to be a concern

            • PowerfulTurtle@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Hi new account, Unfortunately their admin is nowhere to be found, if he comes back he definitely could but it doesn’t seem like he’s coming back any time soon unfortunately.

      • new_acct_who_dis@lemmy.world
        13·
        1 year ago

        Damn and I was just thinking how great Lemmy is so far, it’s like super early days of Reddit.

        Actual conversations without the same tired jokes on every thread and way less angry conservatives.

  • PowerfulTurtle@rammy.siteBEnglish
    38·
    1 year ago

    You know even though this is my home instance I fully support you defederating from it, I’d rather move to another instance than than have these assholes posting transphobic bullshit be allowed to come and harass the wonderful people here on lemmy.blahaj.zone as they please.

    • LeylaaLovee@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, Blahaj is an unabashed trans support space. My main instance is FMHY and that’s a pretty hardcore free speech instance, so I’m not against free speech. But Blahaj just isn’t a hardcore free speech space, there are simply other spaces people can get that. Our content simply isn’t fit for those instances that don’t want to moderate hate speech.

      Plus having multiple accounts isn’t even discouraged on the fediverse, many people have accounts just for Beehaw and will say as such, I have an account just for Blahaj and have no problem saying that. The good people from bad instances are more than welcome to make an account here, granted they follow the rules.

    • Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — y’all are awesome, and thank you for all the work you’re doing with this instance!

  • First Majestic Comet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    I used to think they weren’t that bad, that they just had some bad users coming there but I just checked back and yeah, they’ve really gone to shit. Definitely de-federate them, their admin either isn’t available to do what he needs to do or doesn’t care, we need to protect our communities and our people from the assholes on there.

  • CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    WTF is this instance anyway 😀 Say no to Nazis then The Forth Reich and Say no to groomers.

    I would 100% advocate to defedarate

  • 5ubieee@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    if there isn’t an overlap in userbase then i don’t see a reason to defederate, and if we did defederate then i think there would be more of a risk of brigading or harassment than there already is now. might as well leave the beehive alone so nobody gets stung

      • 5ubieee@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        how so? it seems like a handful of users are the issue on that instance, they’re clearly just looking for a place to spew hatred so when those users find out a instance largely made up of queer folk defederated with their instance don’t you think they’d be more likely to make an account on another instance and bring the hate here? i think unless the admin is supportive of that behavior it would make more sense to give them a chance to deal with that on their own before deciding to defederate

        • 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓼@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          18·
          1 year ago

          when those users find out a instance largely made up of queer folk defederated with their instance don’t you think they’d be more likely to make an account on another instance and bring the hate here?

          I can’t think why that would be the case. Bigots gonna bigot. I think they’re likely to harass queer people because we exist, and anything that makes that harder (e.g. defederating instances that protect them) is good actually.

          “Don’t feed the trolls” never really worked, it just meant they continued to exist without opposition.

          unless the admin is supportive of that behavior it would make more sense to give them a chance to deal with that on their own

          I disagree. Harmful, bigoted content is already being posted there. Defederating now protects this community from being exposed to it.

          If the admin is responsive and deals with the issue, we can always federate with them at that point.