Post #3004457

2025-09-07 18:27 UTC

All in all Canonical and Ubuntu, through their inaction, and by electing a mod team that made this decision with seemingly no dissent, have taken the far right position that people shouldn’t even be allowed to mention their queerness, which gives the extremists what they want, and them not being able to be explicit about their hate (and the mods here are already very implicitly bigoted), is a small loss when they already get their way by forcing us queers into the closet in any of their spaces. On top of that, even though it’s been a couple days so far, the leadership hasn’t done anything and saying queer is seemingly still banned on their forums. This is absolutely unacceptable, and I recommend anyone who is queer, has queer friends, or just generally cares about people being allowed to live their lives, to not use Ubuntu, spread the word, and not contribute to their community; until they put solid policy in place to make it clear that everyone is welcome and allowed to be themselves in their community. Collection of evidence: https://nextcloud.aztinet.eus/s/sxqEDJDZGp7a9rx This folder includes the screenshots quoted, along with a lot of other screenshots and information not covered by my post. Original post by the one discriminated against: https://bark.lgbt/@lukas/115164258497365823 Other post: https://blahaj.zone/notes/aca8zuhiducu005g And remember, the more people boost this, the more likely Canonical is to feel pressured to change their policies and take action to help queer people feel included in their community. Queer Ubuntu users deserve to be able to openly be a part of the community and be treated with the same respect as anyone else. 5/5

Replies (6)

@gimmechocolate@bark.lgbt 2025-09-07 19:49

CW: Ubuntu mod team takes anti-queer "Don't say gay" stance. meme (credit to lukas, the one at the center of this shitshow)

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@gimmechocolate@bark.lgbt 2025-09-07 20:00

Thanks all of you for your boosts and attention btw!! just remember that you're all really good beans, and you deserve the right to exist and be yourself openly!!!!!! edit: Damn I didn't expect this many boosts!! I really fucking love all the good queer-friendly beans on fedi!!!!!!

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@gimmechocolate@bark.lgbt 2025-09-07 23:00

Update: this was posted on reddit and was locked by a moderator of the subreddit who also claims to be a member of the community council, for unspecified inaccuracies. I would love to know what parts of the post I got wrong so I could fix them but as of writing this it doesn't seem like they've reached out to me about it. They also claim that the post wasn't edited because of self-identifying as queer at all, as the three different reasons from the first three different people all stated, but instead was for a secret fourth reason to be revealed shortly. I am looking forward to hearing their full statement and hope they have been having lotsa productive discussions about how to best make the ubuntu community an inclusive and welcoming space for it's queer members!!!! I will do my best to keep this post updated with more information, make sure to boost the top post so you get notified when I do!!!! https://web.archive.org/web/20250907224900/https://old.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1nb60v2/ubuntu_mod_team_takes_antiqueer_dont_say_gay/nczi15v/

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@log@mastodon.sdf.org 2025-09-07 21:03

@gimmechocolate@bark.lgbt Enforced apoliticality based on a nebulous and undocumented divisiveness score meeting an unpublished threshold seems like it's just /de facto/ enforcing the status quo politics of the moderators as the established politics of the forum.

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@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social 2025-09-07 21:08

@gimmechocolate@bark.lgbt @ubuntu@ubuntu.social get your SHIT TOGETHER

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@scremlin@pizza.enby.city 2025-09-07 21:11

@gimmechocolate@bark.lgbt dont use white south-african spacefaring billionaire tech, it's never worth it

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