What is this flashlight?

It is black.

Link in the description

I'm asking you what it's a link to.

What is this?

"We've learned our lessons and we'll be much better at it next time."

Christ I just saw that you're OP. I'm confused; why did you use the word "enshittification" if you didn't know what it meant?

A conservative forum is a forum run by conservatives for conservatives and limits itself to conservative positions

Says who?! It can mean whatever you define it to mean. You're just making stuff up, you're no authority.

It’s a general purpose discussion forum that can touch on topics like conservativism, socialism or biking.

This is not the way you presented feddit.uk before. You seemed to be explicitly excluding conservativism.

I’m not going to list all the things this place is not as that’s an infinity long list.

Of course but I would point out that social conservativism is the dominant political philosophy in the UK so it would be odd and in fact misleading not to be up front about excluding conservativism in an instance that advertises itself as a general UK instance. Hence my concern.

Polite bigotry is still bigotry, do you think we should allow race realists if they mind their Ps and Qs correctly?

Most definitely. How else could such views be shown up for what they are using sound reason and subtle but devastating wit, as is the British way? (As opposed to sticking one's fingers in one's ears and shouting "LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU UR DUMB I'MA BAN U".)

even tolerant Britain doesn’t let them inject these believes wherever, social spaces like pubs and community events still limit what can take place in them.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say with this but I would note that with one exception, all the racist people I've had the misfortune of encountering have been in pubs. And moreover, I wouldn't want to spend time in any pub where any kinds of 'certain' discussions were outright prohibited.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jssqYTMf9E

I don’t see why we should be more accepting of transphobia

Debating isn't the same thing as accepting.

The only things these guidelines ask you to do is not promote fear or hatred of trans people and that you aren’t allowed to say that a trans person’s gender identity is less valid than a cis person’s.

It seems you've changed your tune:

1. In response to the question "The instance is never an appropriate context and any such discussion whatsoever is prohibited?": "Yes, ..."

2. "It’s about protecting a vulnerable minority. ... I don’t want this place to be a contributor to these statistics and I’m going to prioritise the safety of our trans users over some notion of neutrality."

And also, to be clear:

3. In response to the question "if someone created a linguistic philosophy community on feddit.uk and in that community members held a discussion on ‘a trans person’s “I’m a man” as less than a cis person’s “I’m a man”’, is that prohibited or not?" which is about discussion of whether a trans person's “I’m a man” is less than a cis person’s “I’m a man” and doesn't necessarily imply saying anything one way or the other: "no [yes] as that’s pretty clearly ..."

I wonder what reasonable ‘philosophical discussion’ this excludes

There's plenty. Wouldn't it be great if we created a place where such wonderings could be explored honestly without concern over being banned? What a pity that instead there's a place of dullness, with rules motivated by fear.

This not being a conservative forum isn’t the same as conservatives not being welcome, I believe we even have some around.

This is irrelevant to the issue at hand. Whatever it is that feddit.uk is not, please state that up front in the "Who are we?" section. If feddit.uk is not a conservative forum, please state "feddit.uk is not a conservative forum" in the "Who are we?" section. That would at least give people more clarity on what feddit.uk is, who is here and what they can expect when they post from here.

This is getting very tiresome for what is a very little ask

By the same token, clarifying what feddit.uk is and is not in the "Who are we?" section seems to me like a very little ask.

don’t be transphobic. This has been a rule on the site literally from inception.

But the new "guidelines" and more importantly the statements from an admin (yourself) in comments under this post about what feddit.uk is not, are all new. As far as I know, philisophical discussion of trans issues had never been prohibited before.

My understanding of feddit.uk until this post was that it would reflect general wider social mores of British society: tolerance, even of those who have what we feel to be reprehensible views, up to the point where it's clear a person is uncivil or unreasonable. Now my understanding of feddit.uk is different: there are some areas of discussion which are not tolerated under any circumstances, regardless civility or reasonableness. There is now an ideological component, not to the makeup of the user population (which has always been obvious), but to the governance of the instance which is a whole different kettle of fish and very new. Now, feddit.uk has an official ideological position: not a conservative forum, social discussion, no philosophical debate about trans issues, etc.

This is pretty categorically not a conservative forum

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This is a social discussion forum not a linguist philosophy one

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That wouldn’t really change the fact this is a place for discussion of things with other people.

make it clear that feddit.uk has an agenda: it's for lefty social discussion.

Adding tom@feddit.uk Emperor@feddit.uk

Can I suggest making that agenda clear in the "Who are we?" section of feddit.uk 's front page so that people are aware of what they're signing up for and that this isn't just a general UK instance? In particular, it seems egregious to me that there is no mention of the fact that conservatives aren't welcome.