can you explain a little bit more on why you think lemmy.blahaj.zone is authoritarian please?
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pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days agoLemmy.world – biggest, defaultest instance. All the pros and cons associated with that
Lemmy.ml – very authoritarian leftist instance. Has a tankie problem but also has cool communists. Has heavy censorship
Lemmy.blahaj.zone – trans focused, very queer, authoritarian by nature of being a trans safe space. Generally chiller but contradictorily also the center of a lot of drama, because people love to hate trans safe apaces.
dbzero – don’t remember the actual domain, run by dbZ. Anarchist democracy instance, very cool and chill, it’s what I’d sign up on if I started afresh
sh.itjust.works – tbh don’t know much about them but pretty straightforward, is what the label aays, it just works
Hexbear – wver wanted to see a aerver that unironically loves the chinese communist party and thinks north korea is aspirational? There you go
pawb.social – I think this might be am mbin instance instead of a lemmy instance but I’m not sure. Can be summarized as " the furry one"
lemmynsfw – the porn one. Most instances are defederated feom it
Those are the ones foremost in my mind. Tons of small European ones that are focused on specific countries too. I anticipate replies giving me shit for uttering the word “tankie”.
erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 days ago
I think they just mean that it’s heavily moderated and principled. Which is fine and kind of the point.
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Yep exactly pretty much
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Sure. Transphobia is straight up not tolerated at all. There is zero room for discussion. It’s not something a community on bz can allow, it’s ada’s mission statement that bz is a safe space for trans people, end of story. That’s why I love it and use it. I wouldn’t call it censorship heavy, at least not in the aame way ml and the like are. You can criticize and bitch about ada and her actions as much as you want, you won’t get silenced. However, I’d still absolutely place it on the authoritarian end of the spectrum compared to a place like dbzero. I call it authoritarian but it’s not a negative thing, it’s why I use it. It’s it done right. Idk maybe I have different connotations for the instance and for the word authoritarian than you/most people, I hope this clears up what I mean
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
If you don’t have extremely strict rules about gender or transgender discrimination or speech in general, then they want to fight you like you’re doing a genocide.
It doesn’t sound bad in practice but in reality, you get trashtalked for not understanding their vocabulary or not agreeing with them. Respectful debates aren’t possible because they don’t respect any other opinion than theirs.
It’s just a big echo chamber and Ada is a clown avid of power that loves to threaten others with her powers. That’s just my opinion though.
erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
if you disagree with the folks on lammy.blahaj.zone, good chance your a bigot anyways, so your not welcome, and good riddance too. you don’t get to debate our right to exist.
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
You’re proving my point, thanks.
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I’m sick of respectful debates about my right to exist. That’s what blahaj zone is for, and it does it well.
dipshit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I agree, I’m sick of this too. These types of debates are shitty and trying to honor them or play along doesn’t do anyone any favors.
will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Yeah. Before I started using lemmy and matrix more I was on discord a lot, and some of the mods there are rather shitty I have to say. Many even think they are allies despite allowing and defending all sorts of transphobic rhetoric like AGP etc.
Blåhaj has been such a relief in that sense. The only instance I know for sure has my back 100%. No “allies” telling me what is and is not transphobic
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
“Right to exist” is a very manipulative way of qualifying trans debates. Most of them go way beyond that, like the questions of athletes, or whether it makes more sense or not to restrict by sex or by gender, and the distinction between the 2.
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
There are plenty of respectful debates about trans issues, and tolerance of people genuinely not understanding queer topics. What cannot be debated respectfully is whatever or not to respect a person"s identity. No amount of polite language can make such a conversation respectful, as you’re refusing to do the bare minimum required to speak to that person as an equal.
Creating a tolerant space requires not tolerating intolerance. This is not an authoritarian insight, but one centered on maximizing the freedom of everyone. If you demand a space where you can debate a basic fact about myself, then that is not a space in which I am free.
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
as you’re refusing to do the bare minimum required to speak to that person as an equal
That’s what’s you think is going on, but that’s not the case. You jump to conclusions and say that everyone not agreeing with you is a bigot, or should act like they know nothing and trust you because you’re the incontested authority. It doesn’t work that way.
Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
They have a pro-monarchy community (shera), which isn’t great.
WorldwideCommunity@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Thanks this is exactly what I need.
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
dbzero hates crypto for some reason and I don’t believe admins should voice their opinion in this way
breecher@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Do go on, you are just making dbzero seem like a cooler place.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 days ago
I don’t believe admins should voice their opinion in this way
Why not? Not every instance has to be neutral on all points.
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I’m a bit dissapointed that it’s not obviously stated
dipshit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I wouldn’t describe it as authoritarian. That implies unjust use of authority. Their harshness towards transphobes is justified and necessary, because transphobes are an existential threat towards trans people, and queer people as a whole. It’s not authoritarian, it’s protective.
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I think I know why authoritarian has different connotations, specifically not inherently negative to me–stellaris! When setting up your civilization in stellaris, there are several… factors? you can base them on, each one has an opposite. Materialist vs spiritualist, militarist vs pacifist, xenophobe vs xenophile, and authoritarian vs egalitarian. I’m used to the word in the context of a descriptive spectrum, not inherently good or bad. (Usually bad in the context of irl stuff, that just doesn’t seem to be where my mind goes first) Just thought you might find it neat
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Mood, we’re on the same page the word authoritarian just has a bit different meaning to me