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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

So, it turns out that PieFed has instance staff that exist between community mod and admin!

 

Kaity has just spun up a PieFed instance, which is open to anyone that wants to try it out.

PieFed is part of the "Threadiverse" along with lemmy and mbin. If you are already reading this in lemmy, then you already know what PieFed is about.

If you're curious to try it out, or if you're just looking for a way to avoid lemmy, you can find it at https://piefed.blahaj.zone/

Like our lemmy instance, we have set PieFed applications to require manual approval, but if you're already a member of our lemmy instance, you can get auto approved by our modbot by quoting your registration code somewhere in your application.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It sounds like a similar situation I had learning Spanish. In english, I'd say "It's hot". In Spanish, that's "Hace calor", which translated literally means "makes heat". And it was strange to me because I wanted to know what was meant to be making this heat

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That's a good idea!

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

At the moment, we have the ability to take our eyes off of things for a while. Because applicants are screened, we don't get many bigots or spammers getting through. And our mod bot allows trusted users to ban and delete all content from new accounts (whether they're local or remote). So we have trusted users that can watch for new people joining and then act on any bigoted ones that do slip through the cracks.

So whilst I wouldn't feel comfortable taking my eyes off of things for a week or more, I feel quite comfortable not looking at lemmy for a day or two. We've travelled several times since spinning the instance up, and even then, checking in once every couple of days has been enough to keep on top of things with the tools we have.

Which is not to say we don't need to do anything else. The real vulnerability at the moment is if Kaity or I go involuntarily inactive for a longer period of time for some reason. But until we have "server moderators" as an option, I'm not sure how to develop the rapport required to bring additional admins on. It's not not simply a matter of trusting someone, but also ensuring that they share the same vision for what this space is and what it should be, and at the moment, there are very few avenues to do that. I know from experience that bringing instance level moderators on in our other spaces that do support them, such as sharkey and matrix has been challenging to say the least, so it's something we need to take particular care with.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

If I could add an instance level moderator that didn't have full admin permissions, I'd do so in a heart beat. As it is though, it's hard to trust the keys to the castle when the only avenue for building trust is lemmy interactions.

That being said, we do have a bot admin that trusted users have access to, that Kaity developed, which helps us deal with spammers and throwaway bigot accounts.

Also, we don't actually have that much going on in terms of moderation workload. Our sign ups are manually approved, but our bot helps with that so it's not all on me. Our large communities have active mods. So I'm lucky if I have to look at more than 3 or 4 reports a day.

Also, if we ever reach the burnout point, we would hand the community over before taking it down.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

this is why lemmy will never beat corporate owned services

Which famously, never shut down and take their content with them :P

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 5 days ago

You create the community on another instance. You update the lemm.ee version with a sticky post and sidebar edit to let people know the new location. Do that before lemm.ee closes down, and even people that find the lemm.ee version of the group after the instance is gone will still be able to find your new location

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago

Multiple tattoos! I used to have multiple piercings as well, but they all ultimately rejected, so now I have none

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 days ago

Well, the managed communities will pin posts and update their descriptions before the shut down happens, and those details will federate to every instance with users that subscribe to the communities.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Truth be told, I didn't want to kick off more drama by making a big announcement about it. I respect the stance they've taken and the work they've put in to it! So we've reconnected :)

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Do you need to be an activist? Absolutely not. You have a chance to live on your own terms in a world that made that really hard. You don't owe it anything.

That being said... Visibility makes a huge difference, and it's super important that some vulnerable folk are visible and loud. But remember, they're the ones putting themselves on the line, so that in the future, it won't be as bad for those that follow, and that needs to be respected.

For me, being trans was always just a medical issue

This isn't helpful. Whether you see it that way or not, being trans is not "just a medical issue". The fact that you were able to live your life as if it were, gives you a position of relative privilege that most trans people don't share. The truth is, if you get publicly outed one day, it won't just be a medical issue for you either. So whilst you don't have to be an activist, you shouldn't be downplaying the reality that other trans folk do have to face, and honestly, you shouldn't be pretending to yourself that you are immune to them either.

Live your life on your own terms, and do so without guilt. But even if it's just in the privacy of your own thoughts, make sure you build your visible peers up rather than mentally separating yourself from them

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)
 

Thanks to Kaity Blåhaj PIx and Blåhaj Tube are up and running!

Feel free to check them out!

For now, it's just me moderating, so applications to join may not be instant. If we start to get busy, we'll onboard some more mods in the future.

Enjoy!

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/femboy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

If you're interested, you will need to have a blahaj account and have participated in this or similar communities prior to this post.

DM me or reply here!

 

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.

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DM Spam (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/main@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

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!

 

I arrived in Wellington yesterday, and at parkrun I discovered Round the Bays is on on the next day (now today). So I signed up for my first ever international race, with zero prep. It starts in 90 minutes. What could go wrong? :p

 

Thanks to our amazing @supakaity, we are now running lemmy 0.19.8!

We now also have a Tesseract front end that you can use to access blahaj lemmy at https://tes.lemmy.blahaj.zone/. Just login with your regular lemmy login

 

The current mods are long term inactive. I'm looking for one or two new mods to take over the community. Bonus points if you have a blåhaj account.

 

For those who don't want to follow the existing 196 community move, some community members have made an alternative community on blahaj.zone

I am not directly involved in the new community, but I'm happy to share it for those looking for a blahaj based alternative.

!onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone

 

I'm seeing weird results with my heart rate strap. My ground contact time is really low, but my vertical oscillation is really high! One indicates good form, the other indicates bad form. My subjective experience is that my vertical oscillation is low, but my garmin disagrees.

And I think the reason why is the movement of my breasts. I think they're moving the sensor itself, and confusing its measurements.

Is that actually a thing? I've tried to find research or people talking about it, but all I can find is discussion on the impact of breasts on actual running performance, rather than on the measurement of it.

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Neopronouns are not trolling (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/main@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

I've been waiting until after Christmas day to make this post, but some of our communities recently have had a lot of noise and upset over someone that uses neopronouns that most people are unfamiliar with.

So I want to make this clear. A persons pronouns are to be respected. This is true when the user is using neopronouns that you're unfamiliar with. It's true even if you think someone is trolling. Pronouns are not rewards for good behaviour. They aren't only to be respected when you like the person you're interacting with, or if their pronouns "make sense" to you. Trolls, spammers, twitter users, it doesn't matter who they are, your options are to respect their pronouns, or to not engage with them.

I really want to re-iterate the importance of this. Gender diverse folk are undermined, invalidated and questioned at every step of our lives. As a community, we need to be working to undo that, not creating more of it, and that means there is no space for treating pronouns (including neopronouns) as a reward for good behaviour.

This isn't a free reign for trolls and spammers. The rules still apply. Trolling, spamming, etc will continue to be dealt with, but it's not an excuse to act as if respecting someones pronouns is optional.

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