https://hexbear.net/post/2226865

You can find further details on how the survey was conducted here (yes I was drunk the whole time). 158 people responded yes or maybe. Noticed the survey here recently and wanted to share.

  • kristina (she/her)OPEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    Grain of salt: the Hexbear admins fail to mention any “DM harassment of trans women” (from 196 or blahaj) in their defederation announcement, which seems like a huge detail to leave out if you’re defederating over alleged transphobia.

    Most defederation announcements don’t usually assign a cause, a user usually requests it in a thread and then the admins bring it to a vote if it gets enough attention. I personally voted to stay with blahaj but with the addendum that we ban all regular 196 posters and mods. If you search around you can see a handful of people posting personal experiences with harassment from 196 here. Its been a long time but I recall getting sexually harassed as well, though that user did eventually get banned here much later.

    Out of the hundred or so very active trans commenters, only 5 voted to stay federated with blahaj, me included. Though some trans people were very hurt by this, so ultimately I was fine with defed, I voted to stay federated mostly for trans unity reasons.

    • CatoblepasEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      For anyone interested, the Hexbear defederation announcement thread with the specific reasons for defederation listed can be read here.

        • CatoblepasEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Not sure what the veganism post has to do with anything. Edit: I think the link was borked for me, it’s working now.

          It’s weird that no Meganium97 shows up at all in Blahaj’s modlogs, how’s that happen?

          • good_girlEnglish
            5·
            9 months ago

            FYI Meganium97 deleted their account suddenly after I posted in our meta comm to please not do the same thing we nearly defederated programming.dev over. (accusing trans users of not actually being trans)

            fwiw I anonymized their username when I posted it here but they came forward and apologized but then they started doubling down on it before deleting their account. https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7453376?scrollToComments=true

          • kristina (she/her)OPEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            Not sure how the modlog works here. Sometimes on hexbear if someone began to post identifying info we don’t remove the post, but purge the user entirely from the database so no information is shared in the modlog. Maybe @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone did similar

            • CatoblepasEnglish
              1·
              9 months ago

              Alright, I’m checking out of this convo because I’ve already made myself and my views on this clear. Please do not reply to me or ping me in this thread again.