That post explicitly says it's not a place for debate or participation from users of other instances.
I'd like to respect that but I think events like this need debate and discussion because it helps to develop and evolve the culture of lemmy and the fediverse in general.
The post says:
This post is "FYI only" for blahaj lemmy members. It is not a debate, and is not intended for non blahaj lemmy users to weigh in and offer opinions.
I recently received reports of a feddit.uk user espousing transphobia. Specifically, this was a feddit.uk user refusing to use the word cis, repeating the "adult human female" dog whistle, and claiming that trans women are not women. I approached a member of the feddit.uk admin team and raised my concerns and sought clarification of their stance on posts like this, where the transphobia is mostly dogwhistles, and "civil disagreement" on the validity of trans folk.
I was told by the feddit.uk admin that their preferred response is this kind of transphobia is to "sort it out through discussion and voting". However, the comments in question are currently more upvoted than downvoted, and little "sorting out" has occurred. The posts remain in place.
At this point, the admin stopped responding to my messages despite being active elsewhere on lemmy. When it became clear they were ignoring my messages and had no intention of removing the posts in question, I made the decision to defederate the instance.
I know some folk agree with the feddit.uk admins approach of pushback through discussion and voting, but this instance is not designed to be that kind of space. Blahaj lemmy is meant to be a place where we can avoid the rampant transphobia universally visible on nearly every other social media platform, and where we can exist without needing to debate our right to do so.
So some feddit.uk user posting some stuff an Blahaj admin didn't like. So the Blahaj admin want to a feddit.uk admin about it. The feddit.uk admin said, "Let the users sort it out.". People liked what as being said. This made the Blahaj admin so mad. They defederated from feddit.uk because over it.
Jesus, Blahaj always been full of crazy people. But this takes the cake. The feddit.uk admin did nothing wrong.
EDIT If you see a post/comment you don't like. You don't ban or defederate. You write an counter to them to get people to be on your side of it.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if other instances start considering defederating from feddit.uk over this. If folks want to chat with racists and transphobes then stay on Xitter ffs. Hopefully their admin team do the right thing here, after talking it over.
I think @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone totally should publish a censure on fediseer if she didn't already with details so people can decide if defederating feddit.uk would be best.
What does a censure imply? Would it also include the offending comment (a possible copy of which has already been shared).
Surely you can't just call for broad defederation (if that's what censure implies) without actually providing hard evidence?
Fediseer censure is a message they post to the Fediseer it includes a custom message and is a warning to other instances to maybe not federate with that instance. Whether instances choose to defederate based on that it entirely up to them.
Are you seriously so dense that you can't see how a trans person could want a forum where they don't have to see people actively hating them?
I think they can and they're just upset about it because they want to come into trans spaces and persecute trans people with questions and thinly-veiled transphobic talking points and trans people just aren't having it.
Listen, Blahaj.zone doesn't tolerate transphobia, no matter how polite or benign it seems. Refusing to stick up for trans people or enforce policies on transphobia is transphobic in and of itself. A lot of the BBC style transphobic people who ask "Is it offensive to say a trans woman doesn't have a cervix", and the "moderate conservatives" who make similar statements of non-support or bad faith accusations get very upset when people won't play along or will moderate the hell out of them (banning them from spaces or defederating) but guess what. Trans people don't owe you explanations or debates, they don't need to or want to answer your disgusting questions, they see right through the mask of fake politeness.