• Shiggles
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      24 hours ago

      There is a minority of the Trans community that can best be summarized by the observation that “calling everyone they/them as a rule” is unacceptable to this subsection. You must be utterly inclusive to everyone, without hesitation and unquestioningly - first it was someone demanding to be called a goddess, then someone insisting they identified as a dragon. To the uninformed outsider (me), they sound exactly like that one theater kid every school had, but it’s just as likely that they’re just a troll taking the piss out of the inclusivity of the community, which is almost funnier.

      I think most people can agree if you don’t wanna be your birth assigned gender, sure! Go for it. But I’m not playing along with someone’s sexual fantasy, I’m just gonna use they/them. .blahaj admins feel differently, and that’s their prerogative - 196 already fractured from that subsection over this issue.

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        21 hours ago

        196 fractured due to the mods trying to force close the blahaj comm in favor of .world. Calling that because of drag is… An interesting take when even the mods themselves (who did all this in the shittiest of ways) said it wasn’t the issue, and even referenced other shitty takes of theirs as examples.

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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          21 hours ago

          They fractured in the first place because the mods had issues with the admin of the instance, so they decided to move to a different instance. It fractured further because the mods didn’t say shit to the users, they just moved, which, rightfully, pissed a lot of people off.

            • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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              21 hours ago

              Oh, c’mon, there are worse ones out there.

              .world is the most aggressively mid of the instances. It’s gruel. It’s tasteless, it’s lumpy and uneven, and sometimes you feel like the cook didn’t know what the fuck they were doing when you find a husk in your spoonful. And, considering the nature of gruel, the cook very likely didn’t know what the fuck they were doing.

              But it’s not poison and it’s not dogshit, and there’s a lot of it to go around.

              But yeah, the whole move was a catastrophe.

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                21 hours ago

                Oh, c’mon, there are worse ones out there.

                I mean sure, but those are kind of obviously terrible choices. But .world is the bottom of bottom rungs for lgbtqia friendliness and protections, especially considering past behavior of admins and their ever changing terms, including the “teach the controversy” crap that got pulled to get re-worded.

                Of all the possible choices that aren’t an instance thats just chock full of Nazis and defederated from just about anything else, yeah, .world is a pretty shit choice.

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        21 hours ago

        The user you are talking about was banned. So you are wrong about the “utterly inclusive” thing.

        196 split because the original mods made the decision to move to the most hated instance, .world, without consulting the community. So you are wrong about the troll in question causing this.

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        23 hours ago

        I thought we already settled this on r/TumblrInAction… wait, what year is this, 2015?

        • Jack Hughman@lemm.ee
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          11 hours ago

          I would avoid bringing up tumblrinaction with how they turned into a cesspool of genuine horrific transphobia.