I was on this really great cyberpunk / LGBT instance called DATATERM.digital. It was even advertised on the joinlemmy page. However it disappeared without a trace and there is no word on it ever coming back :( I haven’t found another one where I felt at home.

Yeah it’s one of the thing I liked about Reddit. This everything goes mentality.

I think the problem is that many lemmy servers are based in Germany and despite their open reputation they do have some sub-communities that are very regimental and strict due to their calvinist heritage. We have the same stuff in Holland unfortunately. Some people are super open, but other communities are extremely strict and religious.

The way they deal with it is different though. Germans try to pave over these differences by blocking anything anyone could find offensive. I think this is what promts these blocks. In Holland we just don’t care and are more belligerent against the more conservative groups. Which I like.

Just make sure you put a good human text in the prompt when you sign up. Otherwise they think you’re a bot.

Also check if your username already exists there because the form doesn’t seem to do that.

PS: Fetishes FTW <3 Though of course fetlife rules for that.

Meh don’t worry. Those users were never going to stay anyway. The dumb herd loves strong leaders even if they are unjust.

Considering the cesspool that reddit has become, good riddance.

So true. I had an EAP case and the therapist just wanted to stall at first to get his paid 5 sessions, and in the end to push to conclusion because he had his 5 sessions. It was terrible. Extremely commercial.

They’ve certainly “taken back control” from those pesky EU privacy regulations.

I find this hard to believe. They even stopped serving the actual heinz ketchup.

How could it be lower milk content? Cheese is 99.9% milk by definition, especially actual cheese (not sure what’s in this Kraft stuff). The only additive is supposed to be the starter culture.

Just eat real cheese, not this processed crap that’s so gunky it sticks together. Double win!

I really hope they’ll stop it. They’ve strangled Cuba for long enough and it’s only hurting the people there, not the regime.

Also Cuba has done nothing bad to the US in the last decades. The missile crisis was 61 years ago FFS.

I’m sure his son has vetted it first!

Please please please just go vote. And get all your friends to do it too.

If all the trump detractors actually bother showing up to vote there will be no chance he’ll win.

Wayland, GNOME, systemd and snaps seem to be the unholy quadfecta of obsessive hate in Linux land these days. People seem to practically set their own personal identity against their feelings on these technology stacks. If you don’t like them, just don’t use them…

I agree, but the problem and the reason for my resentment is that some of these are forced on us. Gnome even introduced some dependencies on systemd. Poettering was even quoted as saying that was a good thing because it forced people to adopt systemd quicker. Of course he is a pretty blunt person which doesn’t help liking the stuff he makes. But the backing of IBM/RedHat allows him to get his stuff adopted. For me he is definitely one of the reasons I don’t want systemd.

Snapd can’t be ignored in modern Ubuntu because even an apt-get forces a snap install for some packages. This is the problem for me. I have to keep finding ever more obscure distros to avoid the things I don’t like (and in the end I moved to FreeBSD). Even Arch the most configurable distro of all (you can choose pretty much everything from network stack, partition format, etc) forces you to use systemd now.

This is what powers my anger towards them. And Mac I hate because I feel a bit betrayed by Apple, first making a powerful Unix-like OS with decent GUI which I liked, and them making it more and more mainstream and locked-down like their iOS toys, removing power features and locking many features into their walled iCloud garden. Also reducing options to upgrade Macs, introducing terrible keyboards etc. I used them for years but in the end was forced to leave the platform. It’s a bit like an ex-smoker hating smokers I guess because it reminds them of the misery they dealt with :)

About Wayland: We are constantly bombarded with propaganda that X11 is deprecated and end of life. Even by its maintainers (RedHat as wayland maintainer chose to take over X11 maintenance so they could let it die more easily). This is what I hate. I’m perfectly happy if I can keep using X11. But this is constantly cast into doubt by all this skullduggery. Luckily FreeBSD is much less prone to chasing the new feature on the block than Linux is though.

Where my hate comes from is being forced to adopt something I don’t want to (or people trying to do so). If they would have just made things optional, I would have had zero problems with it. This is why I don’t hate GNOME, I don’t like it at all but it’s fine because whatever distro I choose I can always choose not to use it. I don’t really hate Windows either, in fact I even use it for gaming. But what does make me hate something is having something good and then being forced to see it change into something worse. It’s reactive to this behaviour.

I think it’s AI!

I apologize , that didn’t come across as intended. I didn’t mean to imply that it’s a matter of wanting at all.

I just argued against the narrative that somehow trans people are forcing cis people to become trans. Obviously they don’t ‘want’ that because they are in the right body for them. This is where all the “Don’t say gay” idiocy comes from. Because they view it as propaganda or something.

But of course the whole premise is BS. Even the concept of ‘becoming’ trans is. And yes I know it’s not a choice <3

But that came out wrong.

I like the way how conservative Americans are generous on Thanksgiving and think that one day is somehow enough or whatever.

I really really don’t understand what people have against you. What you do with your body is obviously none of their business whatsoever. I don’t get why people even want to have an opinion about that.

FWIW I’m really happy for you that you can live your life in the proper body to match your soul and I’m an LGBTQI+ ally <3 (and a little on the Q side myself).

I can understand people don’t want to be trans because they are simply in the right body or they aren’t but have religious doubts or whatever but that deep hatred I see even in some of my “friends” scares me.

I’m not surprised. They hired the developer of all the major chat protocol bridges.

I use the big self hosted ansible playbook more for privacy reasons (self hosting everything) but I know it’s good! I like their client also but it’s not open source I think.

You’re right I didn’t watch it, nor did I look him up when I wondered about it.

I don’t have a lot of patience for videos, I’d normally only open written content.

Yeah it’s just not something that irked me enough to actually look up lol. Or watch the above video (I don’t have the patience for videos)