@chjara the ceo replied unprompted to the person they banned on twitter to defend the decision so id say yea

@chjara mh what are they doing?

@chjara @reina @Minionflo yeah i alreday know that, but what has it to do with masto.lol?

@chjara I don’t know the story of mastodon.lol would you mind filling me in

@chjara @rick @reina @Minionflo looks like AP in Tumblr won't be necessary if all users migrate over here beforehand.

@chjara @rick @Minionflo Ah, so nothing new. I just didn’t see how it tied in with anything.

I read said post and a lot of the replies to it and honestly, I think people are overreacting. He wasn’t being transphobic, he originally referred to her neutrally which is exactly what I’d do if I had moderated someone and for some reason had to talk about it. People sent some pretty nasty replies about it, so he changed it to be even more neutral, referring to her as “the account” which was obviously worse, so he quickly changed it to she/her. Then people misread another comment where he mentioned that he had forgotten to screenshort parts of the example post and thought he referred to her as “it” when he was obviously to me referring to the post or text as it and not her.

Anyway, the whole thing just seemed like a minor thing blown out of proportions. Like, sure, she didn’t deserve a permaban, but she was also kinda fishing for it, so kinda can’t fault them on that either.

Having been a mod for a medium-sized open social media, I can’t see this as anything other than a conflict of interest. Tumblr is a general-purpose social media, while the queer folks there want it to be a queer social media. This means that Tumblr won’t ban people over just bad vibes like we would on our close-nit fedi instances, but the queer folks want that (for good reason).

In his position, most transphobes tend to show their true colours when people start being nasty in replies. They tend to start blaming trans people as being hateful or whatever. He didn’t. He corrected himself and was generally nice in return.

Again, it all felt overblown.

But I am not a Tumblr user. I can just say that speaking from the position as a former moderator, Tumblr seems to be among the most queer-friendly bigger social media out there and users tend to not see that because they lack full context.

But that’s my two cents on this.