Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • I bet in regular conversation on the topic of dragons nobody is going to lose their shit about you reminding people a dragon is a mythical creature.

    But if you put it in context of this person it becomes mockery and that’s not cool.

    Likewise, in regular conversation on the topic of the earth, no one is going to lose their shit over me reminding people the world is round.

    But saying it to a flat-earther, it takes on a very different tone.

    But both of those examples fail to fully encapsulate what is being shown here - these posts in the OP? They’re all from a thread in which drag is not a participant, in a comm where drag is literally banned. This is not even “Don’t tell flat-earthers the earth is round”, this is “Don’t ever suggest that flat-earth isn’t valid”.







  • I don’t often block users, but I don’t see how this issue isn’t just tied to a single one who would be better off blocked.

    That’s the problem with precedents. Especially when the precedent is established with a user whose behavior is already quite… non-ideal.

    I’ll be sad to see you go, especially over this 😞

    Yeah, I’m not thrilled either. I enjoyed Femcelmemes very much. I hope your community continues thriving!



  • I’ve had some bad run-ins with Lemmy.world mods, certainly, but the admins seem overall fine, if amateurish. They generally take into account feedback and try to provide the full rundown of any actions taken. When one of the admins crossed a line of participation/moderation/administration in the recent vegan cats debacle, they chose to clarify and have the admin admit wrongdoing.

    Far from perfect, but they’re tolerable.







  • Some people might be fucking around, but drawing a line in the sand like that is going to inevitably invalidate people with legitimate identities.

    All concepts are just lines in the sand, even down into STEM. Lines have to be drawn somewhere. The question is whether the new line drawn or erased disrupts other lines, who it benefits, and what it’s worth. I happen to have a very low opinion of the idea that gender is entirely arbitrary and without any line in the sand, and that “I identify as an attack helicopter” is not a conservative defamation of the trans and NB community, but a legitimate point of view.

    And if you really don’t want to use them, it’s super easy to just ignore.

    The commenter was removed and banned for disagreeing with the concept that dragonfucker is a gender. On the meta comm for the instance. Under a post by the main admin.

    Idk if I’ve ever even had to refer to someone with third person pronouns on Lemmy.

    Dragonfucker has been banned from a number of communities for insisting on just that.



  • I knew Blahaj was never ‘for’ me, but I always felt comfortable here. Guess that’s over. Ada and the admins have the right to cultivate the community they want to see on Blahaj, and I wish them the best of luck going forward.

    I’m going to miss 196 and Femcelmemes, but… well, Blahaj isn’t for me, since I don’t acknowledge ‘dragonfucker’ as a gender.