[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

We use a self hosted reitti instance instead now

[-] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

drama-free of all possible Lemmy users

That's... not how I would describe the user.

They're banned from blahaj lemmy for repeated and ongoing gatekeeping and they've got a mile long modlog...

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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!

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We left snacks for the local crows!

Birtinya, Sunshine Coast, Australia - April 2025

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Clayfield, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia - April 2025

#bird #brisbane #meanjin #honeyEater #noisyMiner #manorinaMelanocephala #manorina #australianBirds

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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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Buddina, Sunshine Coast, Australia - April 2025

#bird #australianBirds #brushTurkey #scrubTurkey #Alectura #AlecturaLathami

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Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia - April 2025

#bird #birds #AustralianBirds #swan #blackSwan #Cygnus #CygnusAtratus

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Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia - April 2025

#bird #birds #swallow #WelcomeSwallow #AustralianBirds #Hirundo #HirundoNeoxena

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Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia - April 2025

#meanjin #brisbane #spoonbill #royalSpoonBill #bird #birds #australianBirds #Platalea #PlataleaRegia

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The wonderful @[email protected] 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!

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Clayfield, Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia - March 2025

#bird #birds #AustralianBirds #ButcherBird #CracticusTorquatus #Cracticus

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Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Australia - March 2025

[-] [email protected] 128 points 5 months ago

That's an instance ban. Instance bans automatically issue community bans for local communities the user has been active in.

[-] [email protected] 103 points 5 months ago

Like a phone book?

[-] [email protected] 173 points 6 months ago

Reddit was only ever left of center for Americans. To many/most non Americans, America consists of a far right party and a center to center right party.

What you're seeing is the result of a platform that wasn't first created by and for American audiences, and whose initial takeup wasn't dominated by American perspectives.

[-] [email protected] 119 points 7 months ago

Thus, the decentralized platform is rolling out a "more aggressive" policy on parody accounts that aren’t clearly labeled.

If it were decentralised, it wouldn't be possible for the platform to set a network wide policy on parody accounts...

[-] [email protected] 280 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Because stirring up hate against vulnerable minorities, by positioning them as a threat is a well tested and effective technique for the power hungry to gain and retain power. And it's effective, because it works by pulling people in and making all of the conversation about whether or not it's right to hate on the group they're targeting.

[-] [email protected] 100 points 8 months ago

It's a federated protocol, but the network itself isn't meaningfully federated, and is basically just Bluesky (the company) infrastructure. Hopefully that changes, because until then, it's still a centralised social media platform, despite the underlying technology

[-] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago

If you think you look better with it on, then chances are you do look better with it on, because you'll feel hotter and more confident! So wear it :)

[-] [email protected] 116 points 2 years ago

Artificial scarcity (invites) and VC funding

[-] [email protected] 104 points 2 years ago

I feel like I need to do more than just post a picture. In this case, the picture really does tell the story in a lot of ways, but still, there was a lot of pain and trauma that led me to this point.

I started off depressed and angry, lost in life, knowing what I needed to do, but feeling like it wasn't something I could do. And when I finally accepted that I could do it, years went in to it. A quick photo makes it look like a magical transformation, but there was close to 10 years between those photos, and a lot of self discovery, self exploration and pain. As well as joy, and surprises.

[-] [email protected] 161 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Where I started

Where I started

Where I ended up

Where I ended up

Image descriptions

1st image: - A heavy set person who appears to be a man, in baggy jeans and a t-shirt, leaning against a wooden handrail, holding a laser skirmish gun

2nd image: A curly haired woman in makeup, wearing a teal coloured dress

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