[-] sapient_cogbag@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 months ago

That train looks seriously awesome :p

[-] sapient_cogbag@sh.itjust.works 41 points 11 months ago

ITT: people advocating eugenics on themselves. I hate it. I hate seeing it. And stuff like this is psychologically destructive to read for me.

If people here don't like others with similar traits to them advocating that their life and perspective is not valuable and that they should hate it and wish no-one new experience it, I recommend avoiding this thread - even moreso if you have suicidal tendencies. It was very upsetting for me ;-;, even though I personally have no intent to have kids.

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[-] sapient_cogbag@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago

We shouldn’t get bullied into believing people can be any sex they want to be. They can’t

They can't

Sounds like a challenge for transhumanist tech to solve 😎✊⚧️Ⓐ💻.

(Other people have covered the factual incorrectness here - the short of it is that (1) gender =/= sex and (2) "sex" isnt some monolithic thing but a complex, multi-axis thing itself - most of these axes are changeable to various degrees as well ^.^)

[-] sapient_cogbag@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's frustrating, because I have pronouns after my name and I dislike hexbear.... a lot. It is a good idea to have users give pronouns and automatically attach it.

Their behaviour has made me constantly check if people with pronouns after their names are part of hexbear before engaging in any threads, because of the stress of dealing with them :/, sometimes I do engage anyway and immediately regret it /shrug

It is depressing, because normally using pronouns like this indicates trans supportiveness so I feel better about conversing with people with them on their names. Hexbear has ruined this because of their behaviour around all other topics and sometimes trans topics.

Just hope Jerboa gets instance-blocking features soon ;p, then I can block them on both my lemmy accounts ^.^

I guess it's a typo for "baby trans", a sometimes-slightly-derogatory term (but can be neutral too) for people who only recently started transitioning or only recently realised they are trans ^.^

Some people who've been transitioning for longer don't find the kind of stuff they feel is often posted by """baby trans""" people interesting or enjoyable or relatable. Or they just aren't into online trans meme cultures, or several other things.

[-] sapient_cogbag@sh.itjust.works 114 points 1 year ago

The uk has a serious surveillance state cultural problem.

And holy fuck is this dumb.

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Seems like TWIN's site (https://this-week-in-neovim.org/) is down - the dns doesn't resolve.

IIRC the author was moving away from neovim and was having some maintainence issues, but I'm curious if anyone else has more info ^.^?

Wish governments would stop trying this bullshit. I swear it seems to come up every few years. They just don't seem to be able to accept the idea of people defending themselves against mass surveillance for more than a few years <.<

[-] sapient_cogbag@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Queer is awesome.

Also a lot of the "discourse" against it a few years ago was spread by terfs sooo yeah.

[-] sapient_cogbag@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

196 is a random content community with the simple rule of "post before you leave", so its filled with memes ^.^

It's also a very trans friendly place. But there was a thread recently with a bunch of "just asking questions", and "trans people are just oversensitive", and "I'm not a bigot, but most trans woman have a chip on their shoulder so I am no longer friends with them" kinda stuff, on a post a (trans) mod made complaining about people reporting a pretty questionable comment.

Even if people disagreed over the original comment, the thread about it ended up being transphobic as fuck.

So presumably the admins of lemmy.blahaj.zone (a trans-run instance, who host this, main, c/196 community, on the promise it would be very trans supportive) noticed the lack of moderation of that transphobic thread and are doing something about it ^.^

[-] sapient_cogbag@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

It was fucking gross.

People just openly calling "the majority of" trans people oversensitive and having a victim complex. Blegh <.<

Private property is not the same as personal property lmao.

Also grocery stores are hiking prices to make more profits for execs, not "because of theft". I actually think stealing from grocery stores is a bad idea for simple practical reasons (the cost of being caught is way higher than what you save by doing it), but I don't think its unethical <.<

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There has recently been a lot of debate on defederation as a tool. In particular, around exploding-heads and lemmygrad. I am somewhat in favour, but I do understand the concerns of fragmentation (I'm not going to entertain the "free speech" people).

I think most people on here - or at least the active commenters, which is a biased sample - don't like the general type of content on those instances and the communities they generate. This means, for instance, most of us probably don't want them appearing in the local and federated feeds.

However, the proposal for users to have to manually block those instances isn't really enough, because it means we all have to do this manually even if most of the instance doesn't want to propagate and elevate the content from these other instances.

What I think would be best is if/when Lemmy improves moderation tools ^.^. In particular, I'd suggest that we should push lemmy or actively develop into lemmy (its open source after all) some way to stop either specific communities or posts from entire instances from appearing in the main feeds, while they are still accessible if specifically linked to or searched for - "silencing". One step above per-user blocking of instances, but still below defederation.

We could also say "members from this instance can comment but not post" or other things to reduce the risk of hostile brigading and organising on this instance while not directly hindering interoperability ^.^

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