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.
Not a user, the admin.
It looks like a reaction to the user on the surface, but it's the lack of communication and the policies that drove the decision, based on the post in question.
Unless you're saying you don't believe the reason given, which is a different issue, and totally your right
They want to dictate to the admins of other instances which user they should ban as if they're the sole arbiters of what is or is not 'transphobic'. That's the entire issue.
The Blahj admins have been doing this behind the scenes for a while. Go and get banned from a Blahj instance and you'll a large number of other seemingly random communities will automatically ban you as well (see my post history for a modlog link showing the effect). That's because these little behind the scenes conversations about 'transphobia' happen all the time and many admins or community moderators just give in to the demands because it's exhausting to have a conversation with these people.
They're not attempting to solve an issue with a user. They're trying to throw their weight around and bully admins and moderators into accepting their ban lists.
For the record in all the cases of this happening that I can count in recent history on one hand, the people who received these bans received them for the exposure of what they did, not because they were banned from blahaj. Lemmy is large majority a leftist, trans-supportive platform. So transphobia isn't going to be popular here and will get you booted from communities if and when mods find out about it. Which is what happened to you.
It's honestly surprising you didn't get an instance ban since lemmy.world does ban people for transphobia these days. I guess @MrKaplan@lemmy.world just didn't notice it.
I welcome the administrator (@MrKaplan@lemmy.world) to read my comments. There is nothing transphobic about anything I said.
Accusing a person of bigotry rather than addressing them like a person is a well worn Internet argument tactic. Which was the entire point of the post and my comment that spawned it.