That’s because I manually marked your account as verified.

We’re not defederated from them or vice versa. As you can see, we are fully up to date with each other on both ends. You can also check the instances list of both sites.

If I had to guess, I would say that it is your language settings, which probably don’t explicitly include estonian. So anyone on that instance who tags their post or comment with an estonian language flag will be invisible to you.

Literally wishing that I was trans so that I could access bottom surgery

So, it turns out that PieFed has instance staff that exist between community mod and admin!

No lo creo. Al menos, mi novia nunca dice nada de eso

That’s a good idea!

At the moment, we have the ability to take our eyes off of things for a while. Because applicants are screened, we don’t get many bigots or spammers getting through. And our mod bot allows trusted users to ban and delete all content from new accounts (whether they’re local or remote). So we have trusted users that can watch for new people joining and then act on any bigoted ones that do slip through the cracks.

So whilst I wouldn’t feel comfortable taking my eyes off of things for a week or more, I feel quite comfortable not looking at lemmy for a day or two. We’ve travelled several times since spinning the instance up, and even then, checking in once every couple of days has been enough to keep on top of things with the tools we have.

Which is not to say we don’t need to do anything else. The real vulnerability at the moment is if Kaity or I go involuntarily inactive for a longer period of time for some reason. But until we have “server moderators” as an option, I’m not sure how to develop the rapport required to bring additional admins on. It’s not not simply a matter of trusting someone, but also ensuring that they share the same vision for what this space is and what it should be, and at the moment, there are very few avenues to do that. I know from experience that bringing instance level moderators on in our other spaces that do support them, such as sharkey and matrix has been challenging to say the least, so it’s something we need to take particular care with.

If I could add an instance level moderator that didn’t have full admin permissions, I’d do so in a heart beat. As it is though, it’s hard to trust the keys to the castle when the only avenue for building trust is lemmy interactions.

That being said, we do have a bot admin that trusted users have access to, that Kaity developed, which helps us deal with spammers and throwaway bigot accounts.

Also, we don’t actually have that much going on in terms of moderation workload. Our sign ups are manually approved, but our bot helps with that so it’s not all on me. Our large communities have active mods. So I’m lucky if I have to look at more than 3 or 4 reports a day.

Also, if we ever reach the burnout point, we would hand the community over before taking it down.

Multiple tattoos! I used to have multiple piercings as well, but they all ultimately rejected, so now I have none

By setting expectations.

You’re all adults, and you’re all here to have fun. If you go and read the adventures and walk through everything with no surprises or challenges, then as the DM, I’m not having fun, and won’t keep doing it. If you steal the limelight from other players with your “secret knowledge”, they’re not going to have fun.

So if you’re going to read it, great, but use the power wisely, so as to not undermine the spirit of the game.

Truth be told, I didn’t want to kick off more drama by making a big announcement about it. I respect the stance they’ve taken and the work they’ve put in to it! So we’ve reconnected :)

Yeah, they did a post up clarifying their stance

https://feddit.uk/post/29902751 / https://lemmyverse.link/feddit.uk/post/29902751

The one thing I’ve been thinking about (but haven’t yet done) is using it for the Insta 360 camera app (an app for editing/exporting videos from 360 panoramic cameras). It’s actually more feature rich than the desktop version, which doesn’t have a linux version in any case, so using it to quickly reframe my videos and export them to something non proprietary would be a whole lot easier…

Maybe I’ll try and get that working today…

There is, by forking lemmy and removing it. We already do that anyway, so we’ll look in to seeing what we can do.

In the mean time, we offer a bunch of other frontends aside from the default lemmy UI, and they will all bypass this problem

No, he was not unbanned, and he won’t be unless a genuine walkback of his previous stance is made

Where are you seeing that? I can’t find it in the WebUI

Australia

Would like to end up in Argentina or Uruguay though!

The best help you can give someone in distress is hearing them, whilst you redirect them to a place that can help with empathy and compassion.

Any form of automated message comes across as the exact opposite of empathy and compassion.

In addition, speaking as the admin of a trans and queer community, I don’t have any special tools or abilities to help people. Sending the report to me doesn’t let me help them, because they’re almost certainly not in my country, and I don’t have any special access that enables me to contact them or reach out to them. The tool I do have, is the instance itself that we host, that allows people to connect with their community and their peers, that allows them to struggle, and that shuts down anyone who would try and add to the hurt of someone on the edge.

Which is to say, I don’t think a reddit style feature has a place here. It will let people think they’re helping, without actually doing so, as well as providing a new vector for abuse (though that would be less of an issue than on reddit). In theory, an automated list of resources that could be called on could be useful, but again, if someone is struggling, they need to feel heard, and automated replies can come across as dispassionate and uncaring.

She makes money from the popularity of her IP, whether or not she makes money from any individual title. The success of that game makes her money, because it tells studios that it is profitable to make Potter content, and that will make her money.

So no, do not purchase her stuff, because she will explicitly use her profits from her IP to actively target and hurt trans folk.

This isn’t hypothetical. It’s not multiple steps removed. It’s not “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism”. This is someone who is explicitly using her money to hurt vulnerable people, so you do not give her more money or encourage others to.

Ever.

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