I apparently got shadow banned almost a year ago from blahaj, for a comment I made on lemmy.world
I apparently got shadow banned almost a year ago from blahaj, for a comment I made on lemmy.world
For the record I was posting in support of inclusive language, but pointing out that context and convention matter.
They seem to have even scrubbed my comment from their instance, lol.
If someone gets offended by certain word there's no reason to keep using it in front of them.
They could not in fact get over it, dude.
They must feel very strongly about the word dude. I'm in your camp on it. It's an exclamation, nothing more 🤷
Blahaj mods (especially the one modding ghazi, transgender and 196) are the worst kind of mods. They promote blatant misinformation, remove posts calling said misinformation out, and they ban people and label them transphobes despite there being no transphobic words or implications whatsoever in your comments.
Just block the entire instance and move on. There are better instances that better represent the lgbt community.
Source: my ban message is the same as yours, and I have never said or implied anything remotely transphobic.
Imagine going out of your way to mod based on shit posted else where.
I have been saying this... We have too much modding for no fucking reason.
We literally got 50k AMU, and half the modding is based on vibes, I don't like the tone or content of the comments
As if there is not enough real modding to go around lol
From the Book of the Dude, the holy book of the Dudeism religion:
Incidentally, the term “dude” is commonly agreed to refer to all genders. Most linguists contend that the diminutive “dudette” is not in keeping with the parlance of our times.
The key is that you said "but..." which in some communities fails the test of absolute 100% agreement and makes you The Enemy. I had a very similar experience there, in my case it was saying someone who is "uncomfortable" with gender issues might not actually "hate" anybody, they could just be having trouble overcoming how they were raised. But in the end it's like if a TV channel stops but you get thousands of other channels, so oh well <shrug>.
I was once told my choice of defaulting to referring to people as they/them is offensive to nonbinary people. I don't necessarily know your pronouns at that particular instance of time when speaking, and being offensive is not my intention, but it seems to happen anyway.
Which is why I call they/them the equal oppurtunity offender. It doesn't discriminate in its neutralness.
Wait until they hear what non-binary sounds like in Spanish, a language that genders every noun as either male or female.
Consider the source of the action(a person pursuing a position of authority on a relatively miniscule network) and keep on keeping on. Decades of forums moderated by basement dwellers with a Napoleon complex have made it hard for me to take things like this seriously.
Somehow it even broke out on my home instance.
Blahaj is essentially the padded room of Lemmy. The users there never ever ever want to see a difference in opinion, a naughty word, or a thought provoking comment. They want to be victims and talk about cute stuff. Completely within their rights to make their instance the most cringe thing on the Internet and yet another example of leftists fighting other leftists and pointing fingers at one another over minor issues while conservatives actually are exterminating minorities at record pace and creating laws and regulations to destroy lives. It might be funny if it wasn't so sad.
I have also been banned from specifically 196 for a comment on a completely different instance. Reason: Transphobe. Because I was asking questions.
And it's kind of annoying that when I scroll through the feed, upvote a post and get an error. Oh it's a blahaj post... Sometimes I realize after I've finished writing a comment and can't send it.
I don't even like IKEA.
Bro
So much for "inclusivity"
Same, was banned for totally trivial reasons like being racist or something like that.
This one is for the individual who reported my content.
Depending on what you were replying to, I could see how that is transphobic. Like if you were replying to someone saying they don't like to be called dude and you end the post with "get over it, dude!"?
You said it yourself. Context matters.
For what it's worth, I've met trans women who dislike the term dude. It might be more common than you think.
Also, after thinking on this more, I feel more confident it has to do with the hypothetical "if you're offended [by me calling you dude], get over it dude" as doubling down on using a term someone doesn't want you to as soon as they've told you not to.
I assume they removed your comment because of your belief in referring to people according to traditional genders: men and women.
I don't think that warrants removal or even banning though because as you say, you're advocating for inclusive change in language. Perhaps the next step would have been the inclusive change of more genders than men and women, perhaps just "people" and dropping the binary distinction altogether.
The trick is to stay away from the wild and stupid shit on blahaj. First thing to block after Ani.social and all the .ml instances. I have no time for cesspools or bronies.
I was just banned there today by their Admin Ada for asking on their new pinned thread about "respecting all neopronouns" if that includes Minor Attracted People who I don't want to share a space with.
Instead of saying "yes we will ban pedophiles who self identify as Minor Attracted People" they just got mad and banned me.
Fuck blahaj, All my homies hate blahaj🗣️🔥