The sysops admin on the blahaj.zone lemmy and hajkey instances.

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  • Ada, by far, has the most moderation experience and level head of the both of us.

    If I was moderating this place it’d be a barren wasteland with salted and scorched earth as far as the eyes can see and a list of rules as long as your arm which keeps getting longer every time you look as I try to keep up with the rules lawyers.

    When we first setup Blåhaj Zone with Ada, we discussed exactly this scenario and Ada said that you’ll never create a set of rules that are comprehensive enough to defeat those that are intent on being horrible human beings and trying to make a safe space for queer and gender diverse people unsafe. And instead of keeping the space safe you’ll spend all your time and effort refining and defending the intricacies of the rules.

    Instead of doing that, we want a safe space, so the guiding principle is don’t make it unsafe.

    Obviously some people need more clarification on what safety means to us, but really if you need more than what we have provided to “get it”, then you are the kind of person who would make it unsafe just by being present.

    Most decent human beings can grok “be kind and respect each other” as a set square.










  • Not that I am aware of, and not that it’s not possible, but the protocols are quite different, the Lemmy API, the Misskey API (with various dialects for Sharkey, Iceshrimp and Firefish) and the Mastodon API (with Akkoma, Pleroma, etc) are all very different from each other and even making a third party UI that completely understands and implements a single API / dialect is an enormous undertaking.


  • I think it’s because a lot of her fans were like “hang on, she’s just misunderstood, she’s not really transphobic, just doesn’t want those fake transes going into women’s spaces”, and Rowling kept it pretty vague, open for misinterpretation, not really ever able to be pinned down as actually being provably transphobic in the minds of many.

    But something happened recently and it tipped her over the edge, from keeping her donations low key and her transphobia aimed at the theoretical “not really a woman ‘trans-identified-male’ boogeyman-woman” (who doesn’t really exist), to outright making open donations to anti-trans groups and attacking real trans women.

    All the sudden her supporters are like… Wait, this is not who we thought you meant… Where are these scary men? The ones invading women’s spaces that you were talking about?