UPDATE: ADMIN STATEMENT IN COMMENTS

Leadership of Lemmy has dug in their heels and shown that they will be slow to remove overt homophobia, sexism, and transphobia on this platform. Administration will spend hours or days of effort defending these people to justify a ban that would be instant on other platforms.

You are not safe here. I recommend migrating to either Lemmygrad.ml or Hexbear.net (Hexbear being much less sectarian but the people on Lemmygrad are very cool 😎). Please take care out there. Fuck the patriarchy! Trans rights are human rights! ✊

Receipts:

https://lemmy.ml/post/470384/comment/276139

https://lemmy.ml/post/89596/comment/92129

https://lemmy.ml/post/470384/comment/275398

  • Pax
    61·
    2 years ago

    As a queer person that sees this shit all the time, I’m indifferent. People are shit, this isn’t new.

    Ban them, yes, but there’s no such thing as a safe space lmao. People are always going to sneak their way in.

    I’d rather develop a thick skin than constantly running away every time someone calls me a groomer (and I have been called one; I actually have someone who’s weirdly obsessed with me and continuing to make passive aggressive digs at me on Facebook lol)

    If I’m not in a good headspace, I just tell them to die and click the block button… very easy (and inb4 it’s problematic to tell someone to die, do we really still care about the lives of bigots that try to drive people to suicide. Lmao)

    • altair222@beehaw.org
      7·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • Pax
        43·
        2 years ago

        And it looks like it was handled, no?

          • Pax
            37·
            2 years ago

            I’m addressing that OP seems to be telling LGBT people to leave Lemmy because someone called them a groomer and one of Mark Zuckerberg’s bots didn’t immediately put the transphobe in Lemmy jail.

            • altair222@beehaw.org
              5·
              2 years ago

              OP is talking about a pattern, if you can’t see that from this post then I can’t say anything next that will help this conversation.

              • Pax
                35·
                2 years ago

                I don’t live on Lemmy, and if I did and were concerned about problematic stuff I’d never recommend Lemmygrad, you ask one genuine question and people act like you’re Satan.

                Lemmy’s not a huge site to my knowledge… if it’s that bad people can either leave, make their own site, or apply to be an admin/moderator.

                  • Pax
                    13·
                    2 years ago

                    … I’m not reading every comment. My life doesn’t revolve around Lemmy.

                    Also, while we’re at it, you keep pointing out that I can’t see patterns or see the post properly. I have major cognitive issues especially when it comes to long texts, so PLEASE keep shaming me intellectually, lmao. You’re lucky, the mods might not ban you for ableism! /s