I’m literally a trans socialist, and 100% of the other mods are either gay or trans. We’re as left as left gets.
I’ll say it as many times as I have to: The move had nothing to do with politics. There’s a lot of value in Ada’s style of moderation, because cishet people have damn near the whole internet to serve as their “safe space” for the lack of a better term, so the value of having a dedicated queer instance is enormous. Her work means that communities like [email protected] already have the vast majority of the work done for them.
By and large, we are in agreement with Ada and her mod actions. (We don’t tolerate transphobes, racists, etc., and that didn’t change after the move). Where we disagree is things like Kolanaki getting banned for saying he wants to learn to be an ally but can’t ask about trans topics without getting negative replies. In a community like QDF it would make sense to remove the comment because it’s not the time or place for his input, but on 196 we feel like it’d be a lot more productive to teach him what he can do better to engage with us more effectively, rather than assume he’s incapable of doing so. He’s never said anything transphobic in either of the 196s I mod for, and I see no reason he shouldn’t be welcomed in the community.
And it’s worth noting that [email protected] is still free of transphobes/racists/tankies/etc., despite the panic.
Moving to a shitlib instance is a sign of a mod team that does not care about its community, in addition yall talk about “tankies” yet you think you own your community (you do not, no mods do)
Nah you ain’t left as left gets. You post on a community that uses “tankie” in the same way conservatives use “woke.” If that ain’t the most liberal shit ever, then I am Hillary Clinton.
Ctrl+F “tankie” and replace it with “authoritarianism apologist”, then. 🤷♀️ I can’t say your opinion means much to me if it boils down to a semantic argument.
Authoritarianism is antithetical to everything the left stands for, at least in America (especially under Trump’s reign). Being a communist isn’t enough for you to claim to be on my side.
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I’m literally a trans socialist, and 100% of the other mods are either gay or trans. We’re as left as left gets.
I’ll say it as many times as I have to: The move had nothing to do with politics. There’s a lot of value in Ada’s style of moderation, because cishet people have damn near the whole internet to serve as their “safe space” for the lack of a better term, so the value of having a dedicated queer instance is enormous. Her work means that communities like [email protected] already have the vast majority of the work done for them.
By and large, we are in agreement with Ada and her mod actions. (We don’t tolerate transphobes, racists, etc., and that didn’t change after the move). Where we disagree is things like Kolanaki getting banned for saying he wants to learn to be an ally but can’t ask about trans topics without getting negative replies. In a community like QDF it would make sense to remove the comment because it’s not the time or place for his input, but on 196 we feel like it’d be a lot more productive to teach him what he can do better to engage with us more effectively, rather than assume he’s incapable of doing so. He’s never said anything transphobic in either of the 196s I mod for, and I see no reason he shouldn’t be welcomed in the community.
And it’s worth noting that [email protected] is still free of transphobes/racists/tankies/etc., despite the panic.
Moving to a shitlib instance is a sign of a mod team that does not care about its community, in addition yall talk about “tankies” yet you think you own your community (you do not, no mods do)
Nah you ain’t left as left gets. You post on a community that uses “tankie” in the same way conservatives use “woke.” If that ain’t the most liberal shit ever, then I am Hillary Clinton.
Ctrl+F “tankie” and replace it with “authoritarianism apologist”, then. 🤷♀️ I can’t say your opinion means much to me if it boils down to a semantic argument.
Authoritarianism is antithetical to everything the left stands for, at least in America (especially under Trump’s reign). Being a communist isn’t enough for you to claim to be on my side.