Love that blahaj is still supporting the anti-trans troll. Very wholesome of them to reduce an entire class of people to attack helicopters
Blahaj has literally gone from “attack helicopter jokes are transphobic” to “not taking attack helicopter jokes seriously is transphobic”. This is a genuinely distressing turn of events from one of the largest trans-friendly spaces on the internet.
I’ve never looked, but blahj feels like one of those Reddit communities where you can go and post in good faith but still get banned for some esoteric reason that only makes sense to the moderators and the 4 people who’ve made it their life’s work to eliminate the behavior from all of society.
Like, I read a post from a guy who got banned for having the temerity to suggest that, perhaps, harassing literal children who were streaming Harry Potter on Twitch wasn’t helping trans people and people should instead do something like donate to the Trevor Project. Reason for ban: transphobia
At some point you just have to recognize that some moderators are acting in bad faith and playing petty high school social games using moderator powers.
The Dragon saga is likely the dumbest fedi drama I’ve witnessed in the last two years I’ve been a resident here. If one major goal is fighting the stigma of mental illness within the community, this ain’t it.
The… what?
It isn’t that surprising to me that you received an instance ban for breaking an instance rule, even if it happened somewhere else. Users in blahaj can still see your activity, even if it’s not taking place in their instance, and a rule that’s meant to protect instance users like that one needs to apply everywhere that instance might be active. I don’t think this is mod abuse at all.
I can’t advocate enough that people have multiple user accounts for this purpose, though. The fediverse is so diverse, with so much variation in mod standards, that everyone will eventually experience this. Not as a way to evade a ban, but just as an acknowledgement that different communities don’t play well with some other communities you might be a part of. That, on top of the fact that it’s just good opsec to rotate user accounts anyway.
I don’t think anyone is going to change your mind about the specific opinion that earned you the ban, though. You seem pretty locked-in.
