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this is NOT related to that recent post here about blocking .ml.

i already kno that i can block users.

ive had very bad experiences from a certain... instance i would like to block entirely. i have been on the lookout for users commenting and interacting on the communities i care about, and that instance is... not so important to me. som of these peeps hav been evil to me before...

can i just like - block em? like - the entire instance?... or do i have to nicely ask the Ada <3 to... block it for every blahaj fren? (i dun want that! u peeps shud be able to interact with whoever u wan! i dun wan to be ur dictator <3 )

As posted about recently in !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works and !fediverselore@lemmy.ca it seems that @nutomic@lemmy.ml's stance on transphobia has not changed and his apology only seems to be that he was sorry he got caught and that someone leaked the DM. This is concerning for an admin of Lemmy.ml and the leader of the project. I don't think this means we should stop using Lemmy, it's open-source and even if they embed donation links, they can be stripped out in our fork. But it does make me wonder if we should consider defederating lemmy.ml on that merit. Since if they hold such views on trans issues, it's very likely they won't have any desire to act on that type of transphobia being expressed on their instance.

I know that Lemmy.ml has and does handle overt transphobia well, but I can't speak to their ability to handle less overt or thinly veiled transphobia, and this incident doesn't inspire much confidence either.

Edit: Since some people haven't seen the original. I decided to include it here. Warning, it contains transphobia, if you don't want to see that, don't open the spoiler.

CW: Transphobic talking points

I'd really like to hear Feedback from Blahaj's local community on this, I'm not as interested in outside opinions here so please try to refrain from top-level commenting if you aren't from lemmy.blahaj.zone (I will ignore them if you comment anyway from a remote instance).

does anybody know why image previews sometimes don't show in the web client?

i'm using firefox mobile on android, if it matters.

I'm not sure how pervasive this is, but Maeve@kbin.earth's comments don't seem to have federated. I can only see 24 of them from 9 months ago, but when I go to kbin.earth I can see the user has over 3000.

I'm definitely not a federation expert, so there may be a good reason for this. I wanted to point it out in case it was part of a larger issue.

i just wanted to thank whoever approved my account. i was not expecting such a quick approval.

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.

This release fixes a security vulnerability which allows an attacker to delete images uploaded by other users. You can read the details in the security advisory. Thanks to @Nothing4You for discovering and fixing it.

An improper uploaded media ownership check can result in inadvertent deletion of media when a user is banned with content removal or purged. This can lead to deletion of media that was not uploaded by the banned/purged user. This also applies to purged communities, in which case all media posted in that community will get deleted without proper ownership check. This is limited to media with an image/* content-type returned by pict-rs.

In addition to the fun changelog:

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-04-08_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.11

Hi there, I was trying to link an article written by Julia Serano in 2011:

https://juliaserano/.blog[no space]spot[dot]com/2011/09/transsexual-versus-transgender.html

(sorry, it replaces it here with removed as well, imagine there is no space and make the dot into . in your mind I guess)

When I click Save, it replaces blog[no space]spot[dot]com with *removed*:

https://juliaserano.*removed*/2011/09/transsexual-versus-transgender.html

Any idea what's going on?

EDIT: when I tried to submit the title of this post as blog[no space]spot[dot]com becomes *removed* I couldn't submit and I got a warning message saying "slurs" - I'm not familiar with blog spot dot com being a slur ...

The wonderful @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone has developed a script to help deal with DM spam.

With this script, when a user is permabanned, DMs sent from the account in the previous 24 hours will automatically be marked as deleted.

We have set the time to 24 hours to ensure that the majority of pre-existing (non spam) DMs are preserved in the event of an account being banned. That being said, if you lose a DM to this script that you need recovered, please reach out to myself or Kaity, and we can restore it manually for you!

hi, I suspect if I did some searching I could find my answer (so apologies up front for being lazy and not doing enough research up-front 🙊) but I have noticed every time I type : and then start typing the name of an emoji, for example :sob: (i.e. 😭), there is a list of emojis that start to match what I'm typing:

The emojis rarely match the auto-complete I'm expecting (which is based on doing this in other contexts like Slack with standard unicode emojis), and often there are custom emojis in addition to the standard ones that if I accidentally tab and hit enter to accept, results in an embedded image.

Incidentally, my fingers somewhat automatically start to type emojis like :sob: and this auto-complete feature is essentially "broken" for me by the large number of custom image emojis (notice the emoji I'm looking to autocomplete when I type :sob isn't showing up in the top part of the list).

Admittedly this breaks my flow, but I'm not complaining as much as wondering what this custom image emoji feature is, whether it's a Lemmy thing or an instance specific thing, and how much other people use it (do other users like these custom emojis, and their easy / automatic finger flow is accustomed to these options)?

The custom emojis are cute, tho 😄

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/17674304

any plans for updates?

I wanted to subscribe to some lemmy.nsfw communities but I get an error, is this instance defederated from it? If so, why?

I'm an Mbin and Mastodon user who just registered on Sharkey yesterday. Sharkey looks fantastic, and my troubled Bluesky bridge finally works properly! Even Mastodon polls work. I'm impressed!

While I'm migrating over there, Sharkey has been frequently going down for minutes at a time. At these times, lemmy.blahaj.zone is still up and running great, but blahaj.zone is unreachable. I really hope I'm not putting a strain on the instance with my shenanigans.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27361885

Just figured I’d share this here for informational purposes.

If you appreciate what brahaj has done, or have any comments on how this Lemmy instance shaped your Lemmy experience positively please leave your comments here.

I noticed how there has been some negatives geared towards how blahaj moderates, this even resulted in certain communities being "moved" to other instances and then recreated, on blahaj due to the community of users being against the decision.

if you have anything positive to say about Lemmy.blahaj.zone shaped your Lemmy experience even without being directly on the instance, this is a place to let people know.

I've seen a lot of instances of people on Lemmy saying you can get banned from Blahaj for forgetting someone's pronouns. And then Ada has to come in and explain why they're wrong in their interpretation of the rules. These people were banned for good reasons, they're transphobes. But I think they misunderstand the rules of Blahaj for a legitimate reason.

It's because Blahaj doesn't have rules. It has two guidelines. Very subjective ones. People want to know what will get them banned, so they try to understand the rules of that subjectivity. The rules for what Ada considers to be empathy and inclusion. The rules of Ada's psychology. Because like it or not, with highly subjective guidelines, Ada's interpretation and understanding of that subjectivity is the rules.

And Ada didn't write the rules of her psychology in the sidebar. So people have to speculate. And people are speculating wrong, and starting arguments about it.

I think a ruleset should be a transparent explanation of how a mod team thinks about acceptable behaviour. By not having rules, Blahaj is being opaque about how the mod team thinks. And the only way for people to deal with that is to practice amateur psychoanalysis. Which is unpleasant and creates division.

If people understood how trans people think about acceptable behaviour, they wouldn't be transphobes. So the result of this system is that everyone who is banned for transphobia doesn't understand why and needs it personally explained to them. If the sidebar explained acceptable behaviour in a way everyone can understand, they wouldn't misunderstand it so often.

I think the current system is creating pointless drama.

Whenever I try to report a message in my DMs it says "Couldn't Create Report" this is extremely annoying and also probably problematic because people need to be able to report abusive or rule breaking DMs and if it gives them an error it's likely that people in that position will not report them and instead simply block the person.

Can we maybe get this problem fixed, or if it's intentional can we get an explanation why it was done?

the community conselhos para adolescentes appears to either have a banned mod or no mod, and i want to be a mod for it and clean unmoderated communities up a little.

while i’m not 14 or however old the first poster was, i’m nineTEEN and therefore count as a teen.

Not sure if this is the right place of introductions but here I go.

Hi I recently migrated here from Lemmy.world. I actually joined Lemmy back 2 years ago during the original Reddit migration. I didn't post so much and when Lemmy.world changed their policies on VPNs I didn't post or comment at all really. This didn't bother me much. Though recently due to some bad faith accusations made against me and also witnessing way too much of their unmoderated transphobia I decided enough was enough and came here. I really hope that things will be better here for me, that I'll be able to post and comment even though I use VPNs and Proxies, as this isn't negotiable. It is for my own protection and safety as a queer person. Especially in these dire times more than ever.

I like Anime, video games, and I'm also learning Rust (but I still suck at it). My favorite Anime is HunterXHunter (could you tell 😄), though I also like Naruto as well. In terms of games I enjoy Racing games, my favorite is Forza Horizon, I'm not very good at it though. I'm very glad I was able to join this server and I hope to meet other nice people, and hopefully have a better experience than I did (or rather didn't) on Lemmy.world.

Now that there's another Lavender scare going on, will Blahaj consider opening up a Tor hidden service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/tor_hidden_service.html

In reference to: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/dhs-now-allows-for-surveillance-based

The word futa or futanari is a term I unfortunately see used against trans women and actual intersex people. It is a term which originated in porn and anime to describe someone with both types of genitals, usually though it just refers to someone who looks feminine and has a penis. So it's no surprise it's very often used to describe non-op trans women primarily. Because it's often used in porn it carries strong connotations of sexualization and dehumanization, it reduces the person being called futa to an object of sexual desire and doesn't respect them as a person.

This term is extremely disrespectful and really has no place being used, especially in reference to trans women. Additionally because of its relation to porn people who use it will almost certainly be seen as chasers.

I found a community for lesbians who speak Toki Pona, but the moderator appears to be banned, similar to the former situation with Lesbians.

Do you think you could find another mod team like how there’s 2 new ones running Lesbians in English?

So, oddly, I can't search the community.

Proof:

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/19880834
posted 12/21/2024

@chadmctruth@lemmy.world
created 01/06/2025

Uh Oh:

The community's existence alone -without a clear satire label- has made a fair number of people uncomfortable. I hope 'uncomfortable' is the greatest extent of harm caused, though to be clear, greater distress not encompassed by this word is a valid response that I don't take lightly. I'm currently working on a way to make the community's intent clear without "ruining the magic".

Please feel free to DM me if you don't feel comfortable commenting publicly

Edit:

Good morning! What a sad thing to read upon first waking lol. Everyone is pretty much saying the same thing, so I'll clarify this bit

The purpose of Chad is to be a hated vector for general satire and high effort shitposting. The purpose of the community is to be a circlejerk-style platform for content that requires a level of moderator scrutiny I can't expect from the mods of regular shitposting communities.

A lot of the content that seems to 'fall flat' are basically inside jokes and obscure references. I've made a post that's only funny if you're a law student; one that's only funny to opera nerds and/or French speakers; some etymology/language gags; two best enjoyed by people with ADHD; one for people who read leftist theory. I include references to ITYSL, Monty Python, Napoleon Dynamite, and more. Much of it is parody of obscure Lemmy things that only the chronically online will catch.

This doesn't mean I think your opinions and feelings about it are in any way invalid. The thoughts shared here have given me a lot to think about, so thank you

Chad Version

Hi I just wanted to let ya'll know that user ChadMcTruth@lemmy.world seems to have created a "free speech" community, could also be read as "freeze peach" as stated in the sidebar. A lot of their content is either trolling, a handful of conspiracy theories, and even a few calls to action. It is my opinion that this community isn't permitted on this instance.

The creator of the community also appears to have many alt accounts, same username, different instances they all moderate his community.