She shuts down hatred with such sincere grace that it’s impressive. Personally, I admire her restraint most of all.

She frequently deals with idiots and jerks. Hints at condescension or sly insults would be easy, but she effortlessly avoids stooping to such a level. She stays laser-focused on the topic. Behavior like that makes her comments even more powerful.

You deserve to see this @https://fedia.io/u/@[email protected] Thanks for all your hard work!

Edit: that tag is sloppy as hell. I still don’t know what I’m doing lol please don’t hold it against me

And even as user. She interacts elsewhere sometimes, and I swear, she's one of the most easy to deal with people on lemmy when there's a disagreement.

Fiendishly unwavering for her community, and trans rights, but absolutely wonderful to talk to. Nothing but respect for Ada from me.

This is sarcasm right?

Defederating is fine.

Different instances have different rules, policies, and procedures. That's a large part of the reason for having different instances. If your instance will not tolerate what is going on on a specific instance, then defederating is the correct tool for the job.

If users disagree with the change or feel they're missing out on something important, they're free to migrate to a space that is more right for them, including hosting their own instance with their own rules and decisions.

Yeah. If they don't like what is being said on certain instances and/or how the admins handle it, they should start their own!

Oh, wait. That's exactly what happened and this is the system working as intended.

It looks like it's not because of the user, but because of how the admins tolerate such behavior. That seems reasonable to me. Just another sign of the horrible transphobia that the UK has become known for.

I think it makes sense for them, their goal is specifically to create a safe space for queer folk, it's not a generic instance. The Fediverse gives defederation power, so it makes sense for them to use it, and if their users don't like that "isolation" they can always switch to a different instance. Even tho I agree that it seems to be a bit extreme, but I'm not their user.

FYI, I won't be able to see any responses to this comment chain from feddit.uk users or admins unless I manually watch it off instance. I'll try and do so, but I won't see pings etc.

In any case, to address Emperor's comment, to avoid defederation and give the feddit.uk time to work it out, all it would have taken was a single response to my messages stating that it's being discussed by the admin team. Instead, despite twice highlighting that this is an issue important enough to defederate over, I got radio silence, whilst Emperor continued to post elsewhere. Even if it were not the intent, it came across as a deliberate choice to ignore my messages.

Federation will be re-enabled if they ultimately address the issue.

To be clear, there were no posts, this is about two comments by one of our users, both of which I personally pushed back on. We're still discussing what to do, but consensus takes time.

Address the comments or address the defederation?

I was the Admin who was contacted by Ada and that is a mischaracterisation of what I said. Our rules still stand that we won't allow transphobia.

Unfortunately, as the ruling on the interpretation of the law has recently changed, we are going to have to figure out how we approach this and that is going to require a consensus amongst the Admins, and an agreement on our wording going forward.

This is going to take a bit for us to work out (although not too long, we're getting there, I have been active on Lemmy but I don't call the shots, and we need input from all Admins) and if, in the meantime, LBZ feel we aren't moving fast enough and they need to defederate from us then that is obviously their right.