feddit.uk has been defederated

Good riddance, fuck TERF island. If communities don't like this change they can move to an instance that isn't filled with and supported by transphobes.

ada continues to be the realest MVP

Thank you Ada!

Calm discussion doesn't work, ridicule them and deplatform them.

They've only grown stronger because the neolibs want calm discussion between The people who want to exist and the bigots who hate them for existing.

Thanks ADA and I appreciate all the work that you've done. This is why I love Blahaj Lemmy, I dont want to deal with that nonsense.

Thank you Ada. I really appreciate having a safe space like this.

This is the way.

Damn. I don't want to engage with them either now. Are there any better UK instances? I'm getting sick and tired of the Starmer apologetics and general meltery on there anyway.

Oh man, that's truly disheartening to see, especially how I noticed a lot more people that are being just unnecessarily mean 😟

Thank you for taking the appropriate steps to deal with this 😄

Thank you Ada and mods. It's too easy to manipulate discussion and voting, which is why safe spaces were created.

If instances aren't willing to moderate themselves when it comes to transphobia they should get the boot. I hope more instances defederate feddit.uk over this. Might make them change course and rethink if they should maybe moderate better.

Transphobia has no place on anything I use. I may not be one of the folks on your instance, but I still appreciate the good work.

Thank you for taking real direct action on issues like this. It keeps our community safe.

slay 💜💅🏻

How did a transphobic comic get positive votes on lemmy?

hard mode: uk stop being transphobic for two seconds.

Thank you, Ada

Ada trying not to slay challenge (Impossible)

Terf island strikes again!

Thank you for keeping this community safe, I know this is never an easy decision and the job of moderating is often thankless 🫂 I really appreciate it

I appreciate this move. The nice thing about the Fediverse is that admins can take a step like this to protect the integrity of this instance, and users can still engage with that stuff if they create an account on another instance. I'll continue to argue with bigots elsewhere but I'm grateful for how the admins curate Blahaj Lemmy.

It's a shame how the UK seems to be heading backwards on human rights, and shameful how the UK government has decided to throw in with the bigots and embolden them.

💙🦈

I'm coming from a small brazillian instance and we're also getting attacks on the brazillian trans community, on our case is the medical association, dictating that doctors couldn't treat trans kids.

I asked my admin to support you and to de federate them until they change their policy, hope other instances join too.

As a denizen of terf island myself, all I can say is; fucking good! Our enemies hide behind statements like "just asking questions", but there's no room for debate when it comes to people's rights and look where that thinking has gotten us.

The time for debate is over. I want my rights back.

Obviously I'm not on blahaj, but I think the decision is pretty on point for the goals of blahaj.

It also makes me disappointed in feddit.uk. "Leave it to discussion/votes" is bullshit and just support for the behavior.

Edit: The admin responded elsewhere with "we want to make sure we comply with the law".

My comment remains unchanged. Allowing this is support. Fuck your bullshit law. You're explicitly supporting this bullshit by your inaction.

thanks ada uwu

Blahaj user and former Brit here ... well done Ada for consistency and transparency regarding this.

The whole "let it play out" attitude really says it all, it shows cowardice and a lack of leadership ... kind of like the current prime minister.

Thanks again for all the work you do for this community. It does mean the world.

Based Blåhaj admin is based.

This is a good move. I've reported a lot of tankie-like remarks on feddit that never get their comments removed and it's concerning. Better to cut off any suspected tankie incubator than suffer the consequences

Another non-blahaj here to say FUCK YEAH, Ada.

Deplatforming works. Demanding civility from people under attack by disingenuous, insincere "intellectuals" is so much more than just tone policing; it's direct enablement of disenfranchisement and allowing the spread of harm.

It's easy to be bad. It's hard to be good. When bad people are allowed to express their evil ideologies, it is much easier for people to pick up the evil than for the righteous to defend the good.

We cannot be tolerant of intolerance.

So, again, FUCK YEAH, Ada. You rock for protecting your users AND the rest of the world by contributing to the deplatforming of bigots.

Common Ada W

I'm not a blåhaj user, but I really hope the feddit.uk mindset on this doesn't spread to other instances.

Why do divisive people have to care so much about letting people do what they want if it doesn't affect them? What someone wants to do with their body does NOT affect you, but your open derogatory statements about them DOES affect them!

trans women are not women

Wasn't this a recent court ruling in the UK? Which isn't great.

I don't know all of the terminology, but the entire argument over it just seems so stupid, how does letting trans people exist bother you in any way?

You kick ass Ada. Thanks for all you do.

thank u adaaaaa! luv u!

Disappointing to hear from the feddit.uk. Hopefully they get their shit together, i like their admins.

Thanks for doing what you do.

It's ridiculous we are still having to deal with this in 2025. Just yesterday I had to see someone using the tslur as a "joke" under a .world post. Mods removed it. It's not hard to be decent, although some people decide to make it look like an impossible task. As far as I'm concerned, hate speech is not free speech...

Stay classy, TERF Island.

Unfortunate that you had to do that, but it sounds to me like you make the right call. Keep being great 💖🤍🩵

Thanks for doing good moderation, honestly it sucks that certain admin teams act like this and dont take bigotry seriously.

Of course it had to be feddit.uk

I appreciate you 🫶

What's "adult human female" referring to? Asking so I can keep an eye out for this in the future

That's fair.

People like that will say "just block them" with one fork of their tongue, and then "sort it out through discussion and voting" with the other fork.

I approve. Good work.

Thanks Ada!

I hope the feddit.uk admins reconsider their approach to moderating transphobia, but in the mean time I appreciate your protective stance. 💗

Non-blahaj user weighing in

Well done 👏👏👏

Thank you for your hard work on making blahaj a great place for everyone!

I think if you want your users to avoid stuff like this you shouldn't put in a spotlight like you did here.

i was subscribed to a few communties there, might create a account there or a federated instance for those.

Sounds like the right move. Thank you.

Funny, I already had feddit.uk instance blocked so this is nice, lol.

It's a shame that that's their stance as I post on communities there fairly often and at least some of the mods have outwardly come to defend trans people in the comments of my posts before. That said, I understand the decision.

World next please

thank you mods

Blahaj admins try not to be based challenge (impossible)

Thank you for facilitating a safe place and for the transparency

Can you please link to specific offenses?