When your audience includes a lot of people from NATO countries, the relationship to the atrocities seems worth stating.
Oh, I hadn't heard that. Is that a common business model for phones?
I just watched it, and it mentions ubuntu touch and /e/os.
Edit: oh you are saying people shouldn't mention those?
Yay peertube!
The ukranians are genocidal? Sorry, what?
EDIT: sorry I stirred trouble. I think its good to be critical of any government. From what I know, Ukraine's military is mostly killing invaders, which is not what I would characturize as a genocide on their part. On the other hand Israel's military...
Where is the motorola graphene OS phone? This would be a great day to launch.
Thank you for the understanding and I do agree with your position as well. I did solicit some input from others that share similar views to you, but i have been too lazy to take action on it.
If you have ideas for how to make the rules more objective while still allowing a space for more light hearted content to flourish, I would love to hear your thoughts. Even if they arent fully formed. A community like c/cat_pictures has an easier time of it i imagine.
Sorry, that wasn't a jab at you.
Here are some of my thoughts if you are interested. Being on lemmy I assume we have similar values and in general agree on a lot, even if the implementation details are messy. I do try to balance all of the various thoughts i get about how showerthoughts should be moderated, and your thoughts are helpful to me.
From my perspective, if communities didnt have rules and enforcement to keep them on-topic then there wouldn't be much point in having communities. They would all have the same content.
Whats "on-topic" is a hard judgement call sometimes. A "showerthought" is a pretty loose thing but i remember liking r/showerthoughts for the fun clever discoveries that people made about everyday life, and I assume that most of the subscribers to c/showerthoughts are thinking the same thing, but i dont know.
You are correct that it helped reduce the mod workload which I am trying to find a sustainable balance with. Its a catch 22 with politics because people become really impassioned which means people slip up and say inappropriate things, which means you need to take more mod actions, which makes more people angry at you which makes even more work... but if it makes people impassioned then maybe it means its the most important thing to be talking about...
I think the lemmy ecosystem has a lot of space for talking about politics, if people dont subscribe to those communities as heavily then thats another issue, but maybe not because the conversations can be more meaningful. When I browes lemmy i sort by new or scaled so that i can help build engagement in small communities that otherwise dont get much attention. Imdoingmypart.jpg
I have had my posts removed too and yeah i dont like it.
I am the mod that removed your post. I am always happy to talk about it. I do make mistakes and change my mind at times.
Yeah its a gray rule, no doubt about it, but the alternative is the comm flooded with everyone's political hot take, which quickly drowns out lots of great posts.
"solar thermal" was a tech i didnt know about and seems to be way more effective than i would have guessed.
And allowing residences to be used as retail spaces is interesting to make areas more walkable. Its nesrly free so its worth a shot.
...Other than salt and pepper
For me it's cumin. It's one of the few spices I buy in bulk and actually use up my supply.
In the winter it may lean towards cardamom thanks to copious amounts of chia.
Thanks for the perspective