Drag wasn’t allowed to create the community.

That’s good parenting

However, there is no universe in which I exist and magic exists. That’s because I was born into a mundane version of the universe

Doubt.

Given infinite buckets, there’s a bucket where the other buckets don’t exist

If there are multiple countries on the planet Earth, that must mean there’s a country where the other countries don’t exist.

Hmmm. The army here is made out of chicken

Hexbear might be safe for binary women, but as far as drag can tell, they’re still sexist against a few million other gender identities. Drag went to Hexbear and searched for discussions about dragself pronouns. It wasn’t good.

There are simply too many differing viewpoints, by design

The instances which support women don’t have to federate with the instances whose viewpoint is that harassing women is fine.

Anyone from the SGC?

So basically the admins of your instance are just sitting back and allowing certain people to ruin things for others in communities that don’t concern them?

Yes.

Let’s get away from the “X chromosome” bit now that we’re not stuck with Reddit’s bad names

So you’re saying the moderators on Lemmy aren’t making the space seem safe for women?

Good. Car is noisy and annoying.

Drag has had mixed experiences on that community when it comes to sexism. Not what this post is about, though.

Maybe nobody should extract it.

Drag’s philosophy on content policing is this:

The mods choose the rules and remove content that breaks the rules. The users downvote and argue with content that disrupts the space without breaking the rules. If actions that disrupt the space without breaking the rules create a pattern, the mods create a new rule. The users decide if they agree with the new rule. If they don’t, they create a new community and the two compete.

Downvotes are absolutely essential to this ecosystem. Platforms without downvotes, like Twitter, suffer for it. The algorithm can’t tell the difference between hostile engagement and positive engagement, so comments that damage the space and provoke arguments are boosted as long as they don’t break the rules badly enough for the admins to get involved. Some platforms try to solve this problem by having mods and admins do three times as much work to remove all the comments that would be downvoted. This causes mod fatigue and over-moderation.

Downvotes are a disagree button BUT your disagreement is public, and if your disagreements form a pattern, the moderators should be able to action it.

What Lemmy needs is better mod tools to show analytics on downvotes (technical problem; could be solved by any determined programmer), and better action on downvotes from the admins (social problem; requires the community to dump instances that don’t moderate their users)

You don’t need to ask anyone’s permission to create a Lemmy community.

So, something like Hexbear’s the_dunk_tank, but against bigotry? Not sure any of the admins on the Fediverse would allow a community like that. Everyone in charge here seems very anti-drama, which is another word for pro-status-quo

The admins could try banning sexist men, but that’ll never happen

Nazis deserve to be shot and killed