For you personally to use that word to describe or allude to yourself and only yourself seems like something thats totally your call.
I do have to say though that encouraging someone else to use a word that is (or was once) a slur - especially if they are not gay themselves and therefore cannot possibly be reclaiming it - feels like a regressive and fairly crappy thing to do (assuming that they are straight).
The government refused the amendment. It says it is already carrying out a separate consultation around copyright and it wants to wait for the outcome of that.
If the bill has already passed they’ve not waited for anything. Be interesting to see how artists - smaller artists - respond. One possible outcome might be them removing all electronic music from bandcamp, streaming etc and just selling vinyl etc.
Honestly, I am not trying to bait you or troll you or anything else when I say this but if you equate a simple request for context with toxicity you’re clearly not approaching this realistically or rationally.
You might well be right and you’ve been treated very poorly but literally no one on this thread apart from you can ever know that and no one is just going to take someone’s word for it.
But you expect everyone to immediately take you at your word without providing any context whatsoever.
Blast it.
“that option because just goes to desalines”
Who is the developer of the software. How they choose to develop Lemmy is up to them - you do have a choice though. Support them or don’t. What no one who donates has a choice over is how the developers choose to use the development funds they receive.
Not the point. The issue OP has is with the instance .ml - if they are donating to the developers then they’re contributing towards development costs which affect both .ml and every other instance. If that’s too much of a hurdle for them, maybe they could switch to donating to their instance admin.
If they had developed a centralised bit of software such as Twitter or Reddit you’d have a point. In that case you can’t support one without the other.
On a decentralised bit of software you can support the developers and spend your time on an instance they have no control over. So supporting the developers for development is not the same as supporting any particular instance - thats why a lot of instances accept donations too.
Gonna be that guy and mention an alternative - Schildi Chat available for web, desktop and Android. Its based on the Element apps but with some extras. For example if you use the ‘Next’ variant of the Android app, Spaces work as intended.
You’re a bigot who is on a platform that doesn’t tolerate bigotry. Off you fuck.
Thats just the main instance, there’s a list of public instances there too. I don’t think development is stopping, just hosting an instance
Maybe uncharitably, my first thought when reading a post like this is “what shitty thing do you want to say?”.
But I don’t know you so maybe I am being uncharitable.
But you have to realise the fediverse in general is not owned by capitalist orgs with high priced legal teams. Its mostly small teams of private individuals. If someone posts something illegal, including defamatory, in their legal jurisdiction (which is probably not the USA) then they might be on the hook for it too.
Even if you run your own instance if you’re enough of a dick it’ll get defederated or you’ll be banned from multiple instances/communities.
Learn to play nice in other peoples yard. Its hard sometimes but just walking away and blocking is the best option. Sometimes I need to make more effort to do that too.
I’ve got zero interest in discussing anything with people so foolish they tie themselves in knots to absolve fascism and Trump. Its literally pointless.
I agree totally. All the upper-middle class socialists in this thread have no doubt been setting this in action.
Or they’ve been doing nothing but navel gazing on Lemmy.
My what? Are you a child?
I’m fully aware they’ve been under attack for a long time. I’m saying under fascism it’ll get worse. Both for them and for everyone else.
Worse for non cis people, worse for women, worse for education, worse for immigrants, worse for people in countries being directly and indirectly threatened by your fascist president. Worse for people watching him dismantle all opposition and ultimately worse for anyone who thinks they’re going to be able to protest any of this. The fact he hasn’t made things worse for your neighbours is because he hasn’t got around to it yet. Were less than 6 months in.
This is going absolutely nowhere. You make no sense whatsoever. Its like arguing with a dog chasing parked cars. I don’t think even you know what you’re on about anymore. I’m done.
The only rules that matter are the ones you and your date agree on and largely revolve around where it is you decide to meet. There’s nothing wrong with either of you having a drink if you’re somewhere that serves alcohol. There’s a lot wrong if either of you go on a bender. There’s also nothing wrong with drinking a soft drink too. Or doing an activity based date rather than a food/drink oriented one.
Just communicate openly with each other before the date with an eye towards your dates feelings/perception of safety.