for these reasons:
- The enshittification topic is not a Solar Punk topic
- The moderator:
- has contempt for privacy in a relatively privacy-centric forum
- is oppressive
- uses censorship to control the narrative and silence viewpoints
- practices selective enforcement (censors civil comments while permitting off-topic threadcrap that reinforces the mod’s viewpoint)
- is non-transparent (witholds specific rationale for mod actions)
It’s great to have thematic instances like slrpnk.net which are in short supply amid the ocean of general purpose nodes. It’s of course good for thematic nodes to stay close to their “constitution” (declared purpose). The relevance of tech enshittification to solar punk is a tenuous stretch and very slight at best. To keep with the theme, admins might want to consider locking the forum to prevent new threads while keeping the history of posts in reach for a while for archival purposes.
If it is decided that enshitification is fitting enough to keep, consider replacing the moderator who does not represent solar punk values. Oppressive tyrannical types are not a good representation for slrpnk.net.
They’re usually tying their identities together themselves. You’re conflating changing your name to match your gender with using pseudonyms and are drawing questionable conclusions from that. Chelsea could also have pseudonyms that we don’t know of where she did/said other stuff but wanted to remain unknown. That’s not the same and doesn’t mean she doesn’t care about privacy. Her being known for the leaks is already something public, she does not hide it. In fact, she clearly says she doesn’t want to be referenced by her deadname as someone else quoted here.
There’s a community guideline “stay on topic” which you clearly violated (though one could argue it’s been violated earlier in that thread). Insisting on calling trans people by their deadname can also easily be seen as transphobic, which is against the general slrpnk rules.