You should be able to block instances as a user in 0.19.0, I think.
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givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 months agoMan, I wish blahaj would defend from the instance I’m on.
I’ve blocked a ridiculous amount of their meme subs, but there’s nothing to do about their comments.
If there was more of them, then I might consider moving to somewhere they don’t federate with.
Throwing a tantrum because someone is used to nongendered pronouns is just ridiculous.
I use they/them/ya’ll for pretty much everything. There’s very few cases where any type of gendered language is necessary.
We should just move away from it all together.
I just don’t get their logic insisting people use gendered pronouns, it’s not misgendering, it’s just not including unnecessary context.
SheeEttin@programming.dev 5 months ago
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
It doesn’t block the users unfortunately, just nukes all the blocked instance’s subs from loading on your feed.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, but .world has some issues and rolled back.
So we can’t yet.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
You’re inventing something to be upset at here.
Using they as a default pronoun for someone you’re interacting with online is fine. Everyone does it. It becomes an issue when that person tells your their pronouns, and you refuse to then acknowledge those pronouns, make excuses for not knowing them, and imply that someone is getting upset over nothing for making an issue of it.
In this case, a Hexbear user clearly baited your admin. But that means he shouldn’t have responded at all, or if he did, it could have been as simple as “noted” to say that he acknowledges the persons pronouns.
The issue here for me isn’t “guess my pronouns or you’re a transphobe”, it’s the disregard for those pronouns once they were clarified.
You can disagree with that if you like, but at least now you won’t be disagreeing with something no one said
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No thanks
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Imagine my surprise
spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Ada, you seem to strut around here with an air of importance, and deservedly so, as what you’re doing is great and important. However, you’re also human and make mistakes. You can’t always get it right.
I think this is one of those times.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Despite being fully aware that this admin was a victim of trolling by a chapo, your position is still to blame them? 🤔
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Ada does whatever. They clearly want a walled garden. Let them have it. Who cares, really?
I’m all for supporting trans issues and all but like bro can I not be criticized for enjoying a game from a beloved childhood franchise? You know how many artists are garbage people? It’s just gotten easier to know who sucks because they all get big heads and go on twitter.
Meganium97@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
It didn’t even look bad tbh. I view it as the admin getting hard baited by a hexbear user. Do take in mind - you aren’t alone in this sentiment. Basically everybody here told our admins it would be a bad idea to defederate.
gullible@kbin.social 5 months ago
Any chance you can clarify something? I’m not from either involved instance, obviously, but I’m curious about what some users said about your admins being pro-hexbear. Is there any truth to it?
Meganium97@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
What? No way in hell. Our admins have expressed genuine hate for hexbear, and the community agrees. Hexbear has had a track record of antisocial transphobic users who will do anything to get offended at anyone, for any reason.
Basically, they’re 4chan and Twitter, but only the bad parts.
CherenkovBlue@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 months ago
If you haven’t read it, this is JK Rowling’s essay in question.
A lot of people haven’t read the essay that created such controversy.