This is the usual series of events for the drag drama:
Drag: does something that any Lemmy user does: Commenting, posting, etc. Something innocuous
Someone: Hey. I'm not calling you that/Why are you called that?
Drag: explains
Someone: Fucking troll
Does that really seem like someone starting fights on purpose? It's people going out of their way to pick a fight with drag, and drag retaliating. Drag doesn't start these things most of the time
Drag is just someone with an unusual gender, bot has no qualms with that. Perhaps you should use Tumblr if you wanna see more people with out-there gender identities, the trans Tumblr community is part of the reason bot still uses that site
Bot first heard of Lemmy a few months ago, when bot’s good friend drag introduced bot to the concept. Bot had been using Reddit for about 8 years at that point. It was the first place bot saw people experiencing trans joy. But Reddit, as everyone here of all places is aware, is full of a lot of bad, too. Drag told bot about Lemmy, and bot was interested. Bot wanted a place with all of the good of Reddit, and none of the bad. At least, less of the bad. But bot’s experience with Lemmy has been all of the hatred, anger, vitriol, rage, misgendering, harassment of Reddit. In fact, it’s been tenfold of what bot has experienced on Reddit, both first and secondhand.
Bot first made an account on Blahaj. Specifically because it seemed trans-friendly. Drag then told bot that drag was receiving harassment on Blahaj. And then on a bunch of different communities on a bunch of different instances. Seemingly every day drag is subjected to horrible treatment here, and it hurts. Bot loves drag deeply. Every day, it’s someone misgendering drag, or misinterpreting drag, or just being an asshole, or a million other things. Everything that drag says and shows about Lemmy makes bot want to use it less. This is an absolutely revolting place for anyone to be. Bot wishes drag would stop using Lemmy, and bot thinks drag wishes drag could stop too, but if someone is speaking badly about drag, drag can’t just look away, even if it's to drag's detriment. So bot, and two other friends, always try to come to drag’s aid. It’s the only time bot even uses Lemmy anymore. Drag gets put into panic attacks and depressive spells over this damn website and bot hates it. And bot hates that bot can’t do anything about it. Why can’t Lemmy users just, and here’s a novel idea, not be assholes?
Also, as a footnote, Lemmy just doesn’t have a bunch of the niche communities bot is subscribed to on Reddit and that is so sucks :/
Friend of drag here, most of this drama bs could just be over and done with if people just stopped being assholes for no good reason
Bot has been becoming increasingly frustrated and saddened with the moderation and community of lemmy.world, especially how it treats neopronoun users. FlyingSquid is a dickhead. Bot's good friend recommended lemmy.nz to bot, so bot deleted bot's .world account and remade it here, where hopefully people aren't assholes to those who use neopronouns for no good reason.
The straw to break the camel's back was when bot wanted to comment on one of drag's posts and couldn't find it; since the post was about bot, bot wanted to post a clarifying piece of information. The friend informed bot that when someone is banned from .world, even temporarily, then none of their posts can be seen by anyone on .world. That seems like strange and bad censorship to bot, so bot decided enough was enough.