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A couple days ago, a thing transpired between two users, namely Axolotling and DroneRights on this website. They were having a thing over intentions and empathy, but the important thing is that DroneRights expressed the fact not everyone should speculate on someone’s intentions, which I’d say is a fair thing to say. The mods, seeing that DroneRights laid out all of their intentions and what Axolotling could do to hopefully understand its POV, decided to call it “pompous”. That, I think, breaks the whole principles that Beehaw stands for, mainly those of acknowledging good faith when it happens and not randomly banning a user because an admin felt the way they word themselves is “pompous”, which I don’t think it was to begin with.

Now, I actually do believe in the principles of this federation and I’m not here to start a shitstorm or to stoke the fire more; I’m here to understand how was it possible for a moderation team to see someone who was willing to help someone else understand their point of view and be met with moderators jumping in out of nowhere without truly understanding what had happened.

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[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This isn’t even my instance but I’ll poke my head in and say that even hexbear banned drone rights for being off the wall crazy and transphobic.

[–] corvid_of_the_night@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is this you? The hypocrisy on display is astounding… https://imgur.com/a/w3I0fve

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Acknowledging something exists as a mental illness, and does have diagnostic criteria, does not translate to transphobic. The discussion in that thread was actually pretty interesting, if you care to actually read it.