this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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I think Tywèle having prejudice against people she considers furries is a red flag in my book maybe she didn't start that rule but she's clearly enforcing it with prejudice. Something good to keep in mind, maybe she didn't know it but anti-furry sentiment is frequently used as a smoke screen to cover up queerphobia. I can't say that she's using it for that, but anti-furry sentiment has a bad reputation for a reason. And she already was giving me bad vibes before.
Also I did very recently create a new Digital Art community on Pawb.social !digitalart@pawb.social despite being on pawb.social it's not exclusively a furry art community, it is a general purpose digital art community that people like you can post your art in, without having to worry about assholes like the mod who banned you.
i think its just that once you let furry artists start posting in an art community, it tends to get flooded with mostly furry art.
an exclusion doesn't necessarily mean prejudice. in this case it might just be to prevent it becoming only furry art.
good reminder that anti-furry is almost exclusively used to sneak in homophobia
Also transphobia too. A lot of anti-furry people who've attacked me as of late were also being extremely transphobic. I've also seen it used that way in other places, like on Reddit.
🫡 i support our draconic troops and their struggle against transphobes like pugjesus. In the fight against transphobia I'm gonna stand on the side that has the dragons