Adding to this, he also defended MasterOfBalls, the fascist admin of the now defunct fascist instance wolfballs, when he was soliciting users to join the fascist instance in a lemmy.ml thread.

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[I'm neither transgender nor a tankie, but instead just a rando browsing "all" who has no dog in this fight (aside from a general preference toward egalitarianism and against bigotry). I'm only commenting because this appears to be starting to spill over into issues that are relevant to the Fediverse at large.]

Nutomic, you were probably pissed off about the leaking, I think most would get that.

Hell no, not even a little bit! There's no such thing as "leaking" a PM* because the recipient has the right to publicize it! It's fucking nuts to send a message to somebody -- especially one that pisses them off -- and then expect them to keep it secret for the sender's benefit. If the sender doesn't like it, his recourse is to not fucking send the message in the first place!

The notion that the recipient of a PM has any kind of obligation toward the sender is the dumbest fucking thing I've read on this site in a while, and that's saying a lot since I've been reading about Trump and shit. Actually going so far as to ban somebody for a reason so pants-on-head moronic is absolutely beyond the pale.

By the way, I'm assuming that you (@maegal) are saying things like "I get that leaking personal chats is always a dodgy thing" because you're trying to be charitable to better persuade Nutomic. If you actually believe that nonsense, then you need to get your head screwed on correctly, too.

(* unless somebody hacks the server to obtain PMs that he wasn't a party to, which I assume is not what we're talking about here.)

Come over to hexbear. We also have the best emoji game and it's not even close.

This is a pretty reasonable opinion

Hexbear is 100% the safest for trans people on the fediverse, I definitely suggest heading there if you want a safer place. Its admin'd by a lot of trans people and has an extremely active trans community with thousands of comments and messages per day

I'm on lemmy.ml because I like checking all trans spaces on the fediverse, but obviously with a transphobe in charge that makes that harder. Of course, that also means wading through a lot of horseshit from transphobic trolls, which I'm hoping to help with

I swear, petty and vindictive banning is far worse on Lemmy than it ever was on Reddit, and particularly on ML instances.

If I were to indulge in a bit of armchair psychology, I'd say it is a side effect of venerating authoritarianism.

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When I think of the Lemmy dev team, I'm always reminded of Mao's Combat Liberalism. They should really give that a good read.

There's also the issue of Nutomic being a core Lemmy dev. While something can be said about detaching the art from the artist, having alleged* bigots be involved in the long-term planning of a project raises question of whether they'll let those opinions influence the direction of the project. For example, if somebody created a pull request to add pronouns to user profiles and it was rejected, would it be for a valid technical reason or bigotry with plausible deniability.

* I say this because I'm not looking to get instance banned at this time.

but wouldn’t it make more sense to just migrate to an instance without an openly transphobic admin

That's really just too passive for me at least, much prefer to occupy a space and make the transphobes leave.

Thanks. Dealt with on our end

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Preface: I'm a cis guy, so my opinion may be very well invalid

I don't understand why there aren't more people arguing for this. Why on earth does a leftist community not instaban someone spewing transphobia, especially so if they're on a position of power?

Agreeing with you here, I’m wondering if this can spawn a broader project to try to alter the relationship between the admins, mods and users.

More and better feedback loops and grassroots organisation and less “admins and mods own this, take it or leave it” culture.

In the end, I think this comes down to poor admin/mod practice and poor community leadership where many of the users here would just like to make sure things are better.

afaik dessalines is the creator, nutomic is a co-creator and second largest contributor

They're a core dev, yes, but not the creator AFAIU, that's dessalines who started the project. Nutomic joined pretty early though and is a major contributor to the project yes. I think they've been happy to counter each other's behaviour whenever it made sense in the past.

I thought it was Dessalines