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So I just discovered c/womensstuff, commented in a thread that took my interest and got a somewhat abusive "eff off" comment from a mod with added sarcasm.

I then saw it's "women only". This is the only community I know that bans based on a protected identity of a person, e.g. in the UK, it's illegal to discriminate based on gender, sexuality, religion etc.

How does everyone feel about this for Lemmy communities?

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[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Conceptually it's fine, but I 100% expect, in the fullness of time, I'll accidentally post in one not thinking about it since I pretty much exclusively operate from the firehose feed. Until there's a little more tooling around it (like, if I could mark a community as 'read-only for me') , I think strict/aggressive moderation to enforce that rule is kinda problematic.

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[–] psychadlligoat@piefed.social -3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Frankly I find using public forums like Lemmy a fuckin stupid place for shit like that and make it a point to annoy the mods of such places into banning me should they end up on my feed

don't want random people who don't match your in group randomly commenting? don't use a forum system like Reddit/Lemmy/Etc. with an /all feed you can't opt out of. there's plenty of free forum software out there: use that

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