Content warning: fediblock tech[dot]lgbt for racist harassment on top of history of racism and antisemitism
tech[dot]lgbt has had a history of antisemitism and racist behavior as documented by Weirder Earth, before the existence of LGBTQIA+ Simchadon on the fediverse. See this post https://weirder.earth/@WeirderAdmin/109814556541559784. In the following months Tech LGBT claimed to be attempting to make improvements to their moderation to ensure these sorts of situations would not happen again; however, poor moderation behavior from the instance has continued. See https://rage.love/@admin/111042599173615822 for some more information, where Tech LGBT has allowed a user who makes harassing reports to remain on the instance and seems more concerned about that user's safety and giving them another chance than the safety of others on Tech LGBT and the rest of fedi. On top of this, a mod from Tech LGBT kickstarted a racist harassment campaign, and while the mod themselves has shown personal regret for this action the admin of Tech LGBT is still in defense of these original actions. Additionally, we have now found out today that a known racist serial harasser has an account on Tech LGBT; we sincerely hope that this can be addressed promptly.
While we were not around for the original offenses from Tech LGBT, it is clear to us that even if they are trying to correct course − or even if there are members of the mod team who do want to correct course − that this is far from happening. Upon examination of their current behavior and reconciling it with their past behavior over this last year, we are moving to suspend Tech LGBT. Tech LGBT is our biggest source of connections and we will be giving 6 weeks, or until Tuesday, October 24 2023, until defederating.
Though the user voluntarily identified themself in their report and tech.lgbt confirmed at my request that the identification is correct (the account is now suspended from r.l), I have redacted the account information from the screenshot because the mods feared my publicly posting about the user will cause this user to be harassed. This led me to consider the account information confirmed for internal purposes only and not for general release, hence the redaction.
Nevertheless, you may judge for yourself who tech.lgbt considers worthy of protection from harassment by retaining anonymity, while leaving anyone who interacts with this user open to potential harassment or unknowingly interacting with a harasser. This approach may have its merits in giving the user a chance and many may well agree with it, but may not be compatible with all instances' moderation policies. It certainly is not with ours.
