The best bit is that we can’t even see it lmao

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      Purposely going on an instance I don’t like to own the trans people who can’t even see my dissaproval

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    Do the mods still have the power they had when they banned a whole buncha transphobes years ago? For those who don’t know they combed through weeks of logs and found anyone who regularly downvoted trans comments/posts and banned all of them at once. It was absolutely glorious. Nobody was safe. Well. None of the transphobes were safe. The rest of us just thought it was hilarious.

    Might be time to pull out that old power

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    When that vote gets federated does the person that sent the vote get federated too? Is it possible that our admins can like… Look that up? Lol.

    Because if you can look it up you can ban that dipshit and they won’t be able to vote.

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    Downvotes on Lemmy don’t mean anything. Think of the points on Lemmy like the points in Whose Line, they don’t matter. Regardless, it could be a bot. There used to be one on Reddit that autodownvoted every post to “negate the self upvote” or some stupid crap. Basically, don’t worry about the downvote, and keep enjoying life. Don’t let the downvoter live rent-free in your mind. Let that idiot go homeless, lest s/he live forever in your brainscape for free.

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      The big problem is that this person isn’t yet banned from Hexbear if they’re able to see and downvote our posts. That means there is some transphobic creep out there stalking transgender users on Hexbear. We can’t yet know if this person will try to sift through posts to dox trans people once they realize their downvotes have no effect.

      That is a very common outcome when a transphobic freak feels their harassment isn’t effective, see the entire history of KiwiFarms. And while we’re on that subject, we also have no idea whether this person will organize raids on Hexbear by posting screenshots to the very many transphobic discord servers that literally only exist to mock and ridicule trans people in an attempt to pressure them into suicide.

      Evil pieces of shit like this should most ideally be shot in the head. Second most ideally they should be publicly doxed and their friends/family/employer informed of their behavior. Without the means to accomplish those first two actions, the next best thing we can do to protect our trans comrades is to find out what account is doing this, and ban them to ensure they’ll never be able to interact with Hexbear on that account again.

      If the lemmy.ml admins are cooperative with that goal, then we can ensure the next reactionary on lemmy.ml who does this can’t hide behind the anonymity of downvotes on their new, not yet banned account.

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        Holy jagweed, batman! That shit happens?? Seriously? Ffs people are assholes! Ban! Ban away!

        Odd question… What is hexbear?

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          Yeah, iirc in the early days of this site existing transphobes used to stalk this site and try to dox openly trans users but then our mod team basically went extremely hard line on any perceived transphobia with trigger fingers on the banhammer that even the 1919 Cheka would have considered itchy; although a few good faith users were accidentally banned along the way it did solve our transphobia problem and now we’re pretty decidedly a safe space - post federation the most common reason by a long way I’ve seen for new users making an account here is them being queer people who like our militantly anti queerphobia community and moderator’s (on the flipside I joined back when I thought I was a cishet guy, and then I realised along the way that I’m actually a bisexual trans girl)

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            Gotcha. Well, I’m neither, and I still support this stance. No one should be abused this way. I honestly don’t understand why people just can’t be good humans. I mean, how hard is it to just respect other people?

            What is cishet?

            • cis is cisgender, basically they haven’t got a queergender, transgender, or agender identity. (idk if I explained that well please correct me if not)

              Hetero is just being straight.

              cishet is the smushing of those two words together

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                Oh, it’s pronounced sis-het, not si-shet. Ok cool. What does cis stand for? I though it and hetero were the same, until this very moment.

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                  cis means ‘this side of’, in the context of gender this means they’re comfortable enough with the gender they were assigned at birth.

                  trans is ‘that side of’, in the context of gender this means they’re uncomfortable with the gender they were assigned at birth

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          Unfortunately yes. Though it was much more common early in the site’s history way before most lemmies even existed.

          Hexbear is a left unity forum that began as a successor site to r/chapotraphouse after the reddit admins banned it. The short version of why we got banned from reddit is that we outwardly celebrated John Brown’s attempted slave uprising at Harpers Ferry in 1859. We adopted the slogan “kill all slave owners” in honor of his memory. Somehow, the ghouls on the reddit admin team took this to mean a serious incitement to violence. I suppose their sense of linear time was just broken or something. Who can understand the mind of a liberal, after all?

          To this day, the page for r/chapotraphouse says we were banned for “promoting hate”. That’s a massive farce considering we were one of the most absolutely inclusive spaces on reddit. We’d make anyone feel welcome there so long as they weren’t a small business tyrant, a landleech, a racist, a sex pest, a fascist, or queerphobic.

          One of the biggest demographics in the r/chapotraphouse userbase was transgender people, and that has remained the case on Hexbear. So we take transphobia extremely seriously here given how it is currently one of the safest spaces on the entire internet for trans people to hang out without worry of being targeted for harassment.

          r/chapotraphouse’s ban was a very high profile event on reddit when it happened. Previously the admins had chipped away at the sub in an attempt to stop its massive, rapid growth in user count. They removed our ability to ping users, and they quarantined us. At one point they even sacked our entire mod team and installed hand picked replacements. Despite that, we continued to grow. The admins were clearly afraid of the backlash that would come with an outright ban, so they also banned the empty husk of r/the_donald in order to pretend it was a “both sides are too extreme” type decision. That never held water considering r/the_donald was already dead after its userbase had moved to a reddit clone called thedonald.win. It was clear that the kill all slave owners thing was what ended up being the last straw.

          Our subreddit had made a lot of enemies on reddit during the years it was active. So many that once this site started up a couple months after the ban, we experienced nearly daily raids from places like KiwiFarms and the transphobic harassment discords I mentioned. Ultimately we got rid of the downvote button because transphobic users abused it in order to anonymously express disapproval at the existence of trans people. Joke was on them in that they weren’t aware that votes are not necessarily anonymous on lemmy.

          Once the raiders got bored, and once we banned anyone who used the downvote button that way, things became pretty stable for us up until we finally federated. Now we’re just trying to figure out how to balance federation with the maintenance of the same safe space we had built before.

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            Sheesh! I had no idea it was this bad. I’m glad you lot have found (and are able to guard) a safe haven.

            I have mixed feelings about you doxxing the shitforbrains when they downvote. One one hand, privacy is possibly the most important thing to me. On the other hand, screw those mother effers! They don’t deserve to be on Lemmy anyway!

        • Yeah, the majority of people are either indifferent, vaguely supportive, or at worst slightly rude or dismissive of trans people day-to-day. But there’s a vocal minority who straight up will see a person who’s visibly gender non-conforming, have a bunch of propaganda flood into their mind about how trans people are pedophiles or whatever, and just instantly rage. And that vocal minority is more vocal and less of a minority online because it’s pseudo-anonymous and most forums are ran by cis people and therefore don’t take it seriously enough to ban aggressively.

          The insta-rage is more of an issue in person in my experience. Especially if you’re in public with a child. I used to get in fights a lot in school, so I know the “I’m putting conscious willpower into not punching you in the face” look really well. And it’s terrifying to be walking into a store with your kids and see a dude 10 feet from you giving you that look as you walk by. Before I started transitioning, I’d never had anything like that happen, even from people who were regularly in fights. It’s the visible repression of the feeling that makes it look that much more unhinged.

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            I’d imagine it’s a similar face to what I give people who try to intimidate me or my friends. Those who throw the first punch get the most trouble (except for in school). I dare them with the same look they’re using on me haha

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      I think you underestimate our ideological commitment. Remember, we once banned every single person who’d downvoted any post or comment on trans issues. And if we still had downvotes we’d do it again.

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        I can see excising for hate speech. And for trolling. But you do so for a downvote? Or did I misunderstand?

        E: cosecantphi explained what’s going on. I understand now.

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          It’s not “just a downvote” when it’s clear they are targeting any and all posts on the comm specifically for and by trans people. It’d be absolutely ridiculous to think this is just a coincidence where they happened to find fault in literally all of those posts for reasons other than transphobia.

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            Yeah. I read your longer comment from earlier and it all makes perfect sense now. Sorry for sounding daft. I just genuinely didn’t understand the extent. Sorry this is happening to you peeps :(((

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                That’s pretty!

                I had a friend named Kira. She wasn’t trans, though, so probably not you. She was cool. I miss her.

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                I adjusted from ‘not understanding’ to ‘understanding’. I guess, I did do it without any preconceived notions and did it with an open mind. I mean, and I don’t mean to sound like “that person”, but, if I’m not mistaken, you’re a human and deserve the same type and level of respect as the next human.

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          We’ve been through this song and dance before, and know what we’re doing. Read further through this post and you’ll find a link I posted to a 3 year old thread detailing same/similar circumstances.

          I agree with you on principle, you can’t change what you can’t control, but here we can control, and we don’t need to accept others’ slights

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              You can also fix stupid, but they have to want to change. If it’s someone drive-by-downvoting trans stuff, chances are they don’t want to change.

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                I would imagine that stupid can’t be fixed, because they’d be too stupid to be fixed. Those that can be fixed, wouldn’t be stupid, but, instead, lost or confused. That’s my take, anyway. Maybe I’m wrong.

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      Downvotes on Lemmy don’t mean anything

      Does it not affect where the posts show up when sorting by Active or Top?

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        Probably, but if everything is getting downvoted one vote, it would negate that effect overall. Still a dick move to downvote you because you’re trans, though. If you disagree with a community, then, oh I don’t know, leave?