I would like to hear more from Blahaj users, because for the most part, this thread has been listening to NSFW complain about the defedding, and expressing outrage, speculation and judgement about the defedding, from users who are ultimately unaffected by this defedding. I want to know if this is something their users agree with or not, from the users themselves.
Also, Blahaj isn’t the only major instance to defed NSFW, but because of the nature of their sub, they seem to get the most attention over it.
Ada has been fairly aggressive in shaping her community on blahaj, so I think we’ll see some splintering soon.
Logically there are two positions one can hold as a public LGBT (or any marginalized group) community:
Either we are first and foremost a safe space for our members, and will moderate aggressively to keep it that way
or
We are first and foremost the public face of this community, serving as a place for us to stage the culture war for our own safety and acceptance
Both of these are cool and make sense, but blahaj kind of fell accidentally into the second role due to the massive popularity of 196, while Ada really seems to want to cultivate the safe space instead. I’m sure the community is split, but time will tell just how deeply.
My unqualified prediction is that blahaj will intentionally obscure itself, get out of the limelight and try to focus itself more as a community of internal discussion and camaraderie for LGBT folks, and those who are unhappy with that will attempt to build a new 196 on an instance that is less curated.
So basically Blahajzone became queer lemmyworld, when Ada’s intentions were probably more akin to queer Beehaw.
If this is the case, I do hope another public facing queerspace does take blahajzone’s place. It’s been kinda nice to see such a group just accepted as part of the larger community, and it would be a damn shame to see them become cloistered off.
I would like to hear more from Blahaj users, because for the most part, this thread has been listening to NSFW complain about the defedding, and expressing outrage, speculation and judgement about the defedding, from users who are ultimately unaffected by this defedding. I want to know if this is something their users agree with or not, from the users themselves.
Also, Blahaj isn’t the only major instance to defed NSFW, but because of the nature of their sub, they seem to get the most attention over it.
Ada has been fairly aggressive in shaping her community on blahaj, so I think we’ll see some splintering soon.
Logically there are two positions one can hold as a public LGBT (or any marginalized group) community:
Either we are first and foremost a safe space for our members, and will moderate aggressively to keep it that way
or
We are first and foremost the public face of this community, serving as a place for us to stage the culture war for our own safety and acceptance
Both of these are cool and make sense, but blahaj kind of fell accidentally into the second role due to the massive popularity of 196, while Ada really seems to want to cultivate the safe space instead. I’m sure the community is split, but time will tell just how deeply.
My unqualified prediction is that blahaj will intentionally obscure itself, get out of the limelight and try to focus itself more as a community of internal discussion and camaraderie for LGBT folks, and those who are unhappy with that will attempt to build a new 196 on an instance that is less curated.
So basically Blahajzone became queer lemmyworld, when Ada’s intentions were probably more akin to queer Beehaw.
If this is the case, I do hope another public facing queerspace does take blahajzone’s place. It’s been kinda nice to see such a group just accepted as part of the larger community, and it would be a damn shame to see them become cloistered off.