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Sans Serif is in!

More Gothic! More Grotesque!

As a Mexican I can say the average person here believes the US is a utopia where everyone is rich, owns a huge suburban house, has material abundance, public schools are great, there’s no crime, and you can get all of this off a blue collar worker’s wage.

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Honestly, I think the concept of “supporting” a foreign government that you have no influence over is silly anyway. It’s possible to simultaneously agree and disagree with the contradictions in a large multifaceted entity. You might even say it’s dialectical to recognize those contradictions. Nothing is ever black and white.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDQXFNWuZj8

Nope, this is for adults. 😌

What’s inside them? Pure vanity.

Or sci-hub!

Saw the title, was about to post <Insert Grapes of Wrath Quote Here> and there it is already typed out for me.

First as Tragedy…

Tbh, it sucks that punk fashion got commodified pretty hardcore and lost its DIY ethic. Now it basically is more punk to wear cute, nonthreatening handmade and secondhand clothes.

Spinning sounds really cool though. Dat vertical supplychain integration.

You okay, dude? You seem to have a lot of pent up anger.

There is a small but growing group of people who hand knit and hand sew their clothes. It’s not exactly the solution, but it’s nice to see a return to ‘slow’ fashion in some circles.

“It seems that not ony Ukraine will have to be denazified”

But is he wrong, tho?

Sounds like this topic is probably just a thing for English speakers, then.

Usually I hear “guys” or “dudes” most often to refer to men. But women don’t get to have fun words. :(

“Woman” is more appropriate for adults 90% of the time unless you’re talking specifically in a scientific context. “Female” feels way too medical, like you’re talking about something foreign or of another species. Before incels popularized it, I’d never heard the term used as commonly as it is now. In fact, I’d only ever seen it used the way it is now in media where you’re supposed to recognize the character as sexist (“haha, the female sex is a mystery indeed” kinda thing).

It’s become oddly normalized in Gen Z, but the question I have is: why aren’t men called “males” nearly at the same frequency?

Here we go again. Gotta fight the rot until we die.

Gaza has seen the first use of Unmanned Ground Vehicles in warfare (this isn’t the only model being used but a lot of news sites reporting on this are chud central).

Antagonizing users on other servers isn’t a good look. Even if they’re libs they should be kept at an arms-length of respect to maintain inter-server connectivity. If they post on lemmygrad then they’re fair game.

I don’t really like her either (she more or less sided with white nationalist groups in the recent uprising in South Africa because the indigenous protestors were ‘too violent’), but as a queer person who’s been the target of a hate campaign, the fediblock canary is kind of indispensible.

Tbh, I think hexbear trying to maintain a forked codebase in perpetuity sounds like a recipe for failure given how few of their users volunteer. They should have just added a vanilla lemmy subdomain and encouraged people to migrate. Their posting power deserves to be on the fedi and not locked up on its own site.

(I am all for something like eugenics)

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Appreciate you, Dess.

Holy shit, you’re literally arguing for child porn. Blocked.

I’m not ever going to argue in favor of lolicon. Sorry. Finding it morally wrong is justified and anyone who doesn’t want to see that shit has a right to avoid it and defederate. Changing the language to “shunning” and suggesting that defederating from pro-lolicon instances is somehow racist doesn’t change that. I’ve seen plenty of chinese and japanese language instances in the TL that don’t tolerate that stuff.

And frankly, I don’t give a shit about furries because they’re not attracted to literal children.

I don’t think anyone in the fedi is actively trying to report pawoo to authorities or get them taken offline. Most of the time they make a moral call and choose defederation. No one from the “blue” side of the fedi is harrassing “red” users. All my other posts are an attempt to illustrate it’s quite the opposite. The “red” side of the fedi gets easily offended by people arguing for defederation from their instances and takes it as a personal attack and a reason to harass queer and minority people in retaliation. But they don’t seem to register that #fediblock is an integral part of community self-preservation.

The former tend to be free-speech instance aligned even if they’re not themselves. They have a tendency to federate with them. There is also a significant amount of ecchi content in the free-speech half of the fedi. Furries are tolerated on the “blue” side because they’re nice to people and don’t put up with racism, sexism, etc. When you’ve been around it long enough you start to recognize the patterns.

You’re putting personal ideology in front of functionalism. The function that demonstrably draws chill well-meaning people to mastodon and pushes queer people and minorities away from alternatives like pleroma is demonstrably the ability for administrators to perform full-instance blocks. This has already been heavily discussed within the mastodon community for years.

This is how it went down: a particularly toxic conservative or openly fascist community with nazi dogwhistles in their domain name or site description joins the fediverse (we’ll use kiwifarms as an example). Historically they would do harassment campaigns against queer/minority mastodon users via their own users. But the majority of masto admins went through a giant struggle session over it trying to decide what to do, and the solution they came up with was to defederate from the whole instance and purge anyone who sympathized with them as a weak link in the moderation system. This is how witches.live died, their admin was a racist PoS who migrated to kiwifarms after being found out.

Toxic communities still managed to do harassment campaigns through their periphery. Since they couldn’t infiltrate core mastodon communities anymore, they began to act through ‘free speech instances’. Usually these instances run on pleroma and per the platform’s ideology don’t defederate from anyone. Free speech instances tend to have lax moderation, or in rare cases will go to bat for their users who harass others based on some self-righteous trash ideology.

This has been demonstrated repeatedly. The sample size got to be big enough that free speech instances are now defederated on-sight. We still have problems with them, they’ve become strategic and have started using bots and rapidly create accounts on instances that were previously unknown. But the majority of the time there is very little drama on the mastodon side of the fedi. And most people like it that way. They prefer to feel safe and it makes them a lot more talkative.

SFW instances are already a thing? That choice should be left up to the users of that community not to free speech crusaders like the pleroma devs. If people decide that furry is fine but loli isn’t they should be free to make that choice and occupy instances that uphold that ruleset. I should have a right to decide I don’t want to federate with people who send me DMs telling me to kill myself, a thing which has actually happened to me.

I mean, literally just defederate has been the tried-and-true method so far. Lolicons never have opinions worth entertaining anyway. If they complain about it, who honestly cares?

I genuinely don’t understand the point this author is trying to make. Anyone who reads a server’s About Page can get all of this same information from their blocklist if reasons are listed. And the author’s enlightened centrist “we don’t have red and blue politics in Japan” is total bullshit. The Japanese parliament is a neoliberal institution inspired by western legislatures, with conservative, liberal, and even social democratic parties. Feigning ignorance in this matter and claiming mysterious foreign political forces are at work just shows how politically uneducated the author is.

They seem to have a soft spot for lolicon, which is gross regardless of legality. Users have the right to not see child fetish art on their timeline.

I think it’s really telling that conservative instances are offended when liberal or leftist instances block them. Their egos can’t handle not being able to reach someone. But the claim that liberal and leftist instances block conservative instances “for no reason” is just false. They’re extremely racist, use loads of eugenics dogwhistles, and actively attack lgbt users. Any instance that defederates from a conservative instance and hardening their instance against scraping is totally justified in avoiding conservative anti-social behavior. Ghouls can get fucked and they deserve to be alone.

Easy, there’s no advertising money incentives on peertube. People who put in the most effort aim for sponsorships, and sponsors aren’t looking at peertube.

To succeed, peertube would need to leverage leftist mutual aid networks to get community funded videos and livestreams.

TBH, based on the huge amounts of drama about it at chapochat, requiring visible pronouns (including enby-friendly ones) for new users weirds out a lot of rightos. They will outright refuse to use them and incessantly complain about it. It seems like an effective deterrent for everyone but the more determined trolls.