Turns out it takes money or a big corporation to stick to your work when you’re essentially a public figure representing a widely used platform. Can’t make an anonymous alt for politics and step down from any positions of power without those.
Turns out it takes money or a big corporation to stick to your work when you’re essentially a public figure representing a widely used platform. Can’t make an anonymous alt for politics and step down from any positions of power without those.
I’m avoiding linking as to not brigade, but it was a reply to a comment that also mentioned “the politics of Lemmy devs”. Irrespective of whether any of it was also to defend Rimu, Nutomic cannot speak for anyone but themselves. As a side note, the accusation against Rimu by the OP there turned out to be most likely false because it lacked the full context.
It didn’t turn out to “most likely be false”, I know the context better most other people and know it is valid.
The screenshot relating to Mia was undoubtedly out of context and visibly cropped. Going by the wording of her post and lack of evidence in it, she merely assumed Rimu’s decision not to include that instance as a suggestion was based on her instance being “pro-trans” and leftist. You’re being very vague, however.
It 100% was not out of context or cropped.
Here I just took these screenshots of the before and after for you.
Rimu never stated his reasons, he said it was “obvious” and left it at that until after the post was made when he said it was because she had chosen her side or whatever edgy wording it was.
Mia was being largely sarcastic and making light of Rimu’s lack of explanation by stating it must be because of the instances stance that he censored the instance.
Like I said I know what has happened better than most other people and am deeply familiar with the situation. If you would like me to clear up any other misconceptions please ask.
The framing of the YPTB post, as also understood by Diva and by ZombiFrancis, is that Rimu brought up pronouns to show he’s not a transphobe just out of the blue in response to a suggestion related to ableism, then immediately kicked Mia. They say nothing about Mia’s prior post accusing Rimu of “shadowbanning” because “pro-trans” and “left leaning anarchist” with zero evidence, making the framing very manipulative. I also see no evidence of her being kicked immediately after that message. I’m not familiar with that mobile app, but the “kicked” notification appears to be sticky even if you scroll up, so in theory you could be looking at an exchange from a week prior but still seeing the notifications at the bottom. Your screenshot not showing the “kicked” event right below Mia’s message seems to confirm this.
The cropping is very obvious as well. The bottom corners aren’t round like in the rest of the messages, there’s an “arrow down” button indicating it’s not the end of the log, and there are parts of letters inside her message that are visible, highlighted by my red arrow here:
Edit: Corrected a URL.
Edit 2: Also, it’s clearly an unmarked composite image made up of at least two parts stitched together. Here on the right you can see a cropped part of the black arrow button, while the top of the URL is also cropped, making the h letter look like an n, etc.
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