For example, there’s a user in the fediverse known as Drag, and people were blowing up because of his pronouns.

“I’m so against transphobia, I’m going to misgender the very person I bring as example”.

Gr8 b8 m8

Most of the transphobia garbage I’ve seen lately was from newish reddit refugees not understanding they’re not on fashdit anymore

I think this person is either a troll or doesn’t understand the nature of these situations because Leni is, in her own words “a non-transgender woman” and also is not being slandered but has actually engaged in bad faith interactions like Nazi apologia, and literal transphobia herself.

Dragonfucker is a weird and uncomfortable situation because people were and still are misgendering them (including ironically OOP) but dragonfucker was not ejected from many Lemmy instances and communities because of their pronouns but because of misgendering, sealioning, and literal harassment of users of users.

Looking at it more I really don’t think this person is acting in good faith at all, since they chose the worst people to represent in their arguments. I absolutely do think that Lemmy, especially on bigger instances or ones with more agnostic moderation, have problems with transphobia and bigotry as a whole (especially of the thinly veiled variety). But I would never suggest that two of the most prolific trolls on this platform are innocent victims.

My comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/Lemmy/comments/1joaiwk/is_it_just_me_or_has_anyone_else_witnessed_what/mkrv153

Thanks for sharing.

edit: ??? lmao

I don’t understand how- there’s so much trans and lgbqt stuff in the all feed I had to start blocking it because it was drowning out everything else. Don’t get me wrong- you guys, gals, and others do your thing, that’s great, it just isn’t relevant to me. But there’s enough of this content that I had to filter it out. That seems like a lot to me?

but everyone’s stance [on lemmy] sounds more like “take your pronouns to another site”.

I beg your fucking pardon, what the fuck? What wackass instance did you bumblefuck your way into, so I can block that shit weeks ago?

Brackets mine.

“you’ll begin to see it once you get sucked into the lore”

Ignoring the stupidity of the overall argument and concept, if there is such a thing as a “lore” for the fediverse I feel like a somewhat important part of it is that like half of its developers are trans people.

Sure, that doesn’t mean there won’t be trolls over at “free speech extremist” instances, it just means that they can be easily silenced and marginalized. As was the intention from the start, invented in large part by the trans people who pioneered this.

To say the lore of the fediverse is transphobic is just so utterly fucked. If anything, the lore is trans. But who the hell even speaks of the lore of a protocol. I can’t even.

Rage bait idiot prolly

Ok well here I go playing devils advocate again. There is a lot of discussions on trans issues on this site and there are more than a few times where I have seen transphobia being accepted by the instance. I stumbled across a post on grad that was quite literally saying that trans issues where invented by the bourgeoisie to incite conflict in the lower class and people were agreeing with the post.

I am not saying that it is everywhere and there are a lot of very accepting people but if you see enough posts like that in a short period of time it could very well colour your perception of lemmy negatively.