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submitted 1 year ago by Ransom@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

As a disabled person, I face ableism and ableist language every day. Some people use ableist language without even knowing that it is ableist. I thought it would be good for folks to take a look at the attached BBC article and expand their perspectives a bit.

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[-] livus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks, perspective's a strange thing, to me it always feels like the bad faithers are from the biggest instances but that's just because of the size of them.

The theory we joined kbin over politics surprises me. I joined because I found the interface so much easier to use than lemmy, and also it has a lot of features like the ability to block domains or instances by myself, and the cool interfacing with mastodon. We also turned out to have a cool dev and transparent finances which is nice.

I think some of us who joined kbin before we federated are kind of in a bit of a diy small magazines vibe and don't really mix it up as much.

Although we can see the names of people who upvote and downvote us, Kbin doesn't seem to federate all downvotes, so I guess we can be kind of oblivious to disapproval from outsiders.

[-] ram@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

wrt not federating all downvotes, you sure that's not because the commenter or poster is from an instance that disables downvotes? If they disable downvotes, then all downvotes will only be localized to your instance (i.e. every downvote you'll see on that comment/post is from kbin.social users, and me, lemmy.ca users)

[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, there's definitely more to it than that. I don't fully understand, but to give you an example, @ram, here are screenshots of how your comment about kbin above looks to me:

From visiting your instance, not signed in

From kbin

From my test account at lemmy.world

(All sorted by old). As you can see, the voting is very different viewed from kbin.

[-] ram@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Huh that's really interesting. I wonder why that is then.

[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@ram

Not sure, I've only been able to find snippets of dev discussion on it but as far as I can tell it's part of Ernest's philosophy.

He used to have the upvote button mean sharing and the "boost" button for upvotes, but he reconfigured it because we all got too confused.

This way we can never vote brigade, or be brigaded either, I guess?

But kbin is still being built, it's a lot newer than Lemmy, so who knows what the future holds. It's interesting that different instances will have a wildly different picture about whether a comment is popular though.

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