I appreciate it, but I’m going to be a little wary until I see it in action. I see too many places become uncomfortable for PoC and LGBT comrades who feel they have nowhere else to go, because every place they do end up pushes them out in the end.

I think you might benefit from checking out hexbear for a bit to see the difference in user activity (there’s a lot of user activity). It’s like night and day from here and they had their transphobia struggle session like 2 years ago. Once all the shitty people were gone, everyone got comfortable and actually started to talk to each other.

We should consider people’s activity outside this instance when deciding whether to ban. Looking at it now, its silly to not consider a person’s full internet persona. Not that we need to have foreknowledge of what they’ve done, but when things are brought to our attention, we need to act on them.

Absolutely agree. Like I said on the other thread, we don’t need to vet everyone by actively hunting down their external profiles (more because it’s a ton of work for the admins and Lemmy is pseudoanonymous so it would be really hard), but if someone makes any of their other profiles known on their Lemmy account and especially if they’re advertising it, we should never be willfully blind to that in our moderation decisions.

For the speed of moderation thing, I hope I can continue to mod as I see fit based on the rules, and if anyone think it’s an overstep, they should message me. I’m terminally online so I see most of the reports first, and sometimes I hold off on removing them just because I’m worried that you guys will get mad. Like, I hope I’m not getting strikes and risking being kicked off the admin team.

Honestly, I actually think within a day is pretty quick turnaround for action, and I don’t think it would have seemed like action was slow to most if there had been no admin activity during that period, instead of uh…admin activity in that very thread.

Thanks for letting us know the steps that’ll be taken, hope that seeing it in practice will lead to a lot more cool discussions, I’d really rather not feel like I am meant to just stick to lemmygrad local, federation is such a cool concept

I don’t know if this is the place for it, but I can mod if you find my posting and reporting history appropriate for the task.

The point of a “safe space” doesn’t come with the assumption that there won’t be bad faith players in that space, its just that the moderation and the community can indeed create a place where if something does go wrong, it is handled as soon as possible and in the most productive way, especially in a way that tries to prevent bad faith players from overtaking a discourse on a platform.

It’s not difficult discourse. COB was misgendered purposely and compared to a groomer, which is a) highly insulting and slanderous and b) an old anti-LGBT conspiracy theory that has led to deaths and repression.

If beehaw considers this “difficult” then maybe people are better off indeed on lemmygrad or hexbear where we solved these questions ages ago.

If beehaw bans transphobes and homophobes on sight then plug yourself. But I’m done debating these people. My existence is not up for debate and there is nothing to discuss. I will continue to be trans regardless of people’s opinions and disgusting namecalling.

Hello, I am a moderator of the trans community on lemmygrad, and I can assure you that LGBTQ people are absolutely safe there.

This may be surprising, but there is actually a really crucial piece of understanding topics called “nuance.” For instance, colonial imperialism as promoted by the West is, in fact, the source of cisheteronormativity and the reason anti-LGBTQ sentiments are so present in society.

Queer liberation in fact relies on the struggle to dismantle capitalism and imperialism. And as such, we can critically support any anti-imperialist struggles while at the same time criticizing queerphobia. Russia being against the US/Nato? That is ultimately good for queer people. Russia’s anti-queerness? Bad for queer people.

If you’re actually interested in the topic of queer liberation through anti-imperialist and communist struggle, it’s more important to look at existing socialist states (Russia is not, it is capitalist, and thus, not a beacon for queer liberation) and their movements for queer liberation. One of the most powerful examples of this is Cuba. I could link you some reading if you are engaging in this topic in good faith, but if you’re just here to say lemmygrad and russia are bad and thus anti-LGBTQ, then I won’t bother.

Like half of lemmygrad is queer, lol