But think of the ads we can’t play! THE ADS!

I was wondering what that was.

Okay, but can you back up that guarantee with sources? I want to know how likely this is, as I will be applying for jobs soon. Also, remote tech jobs, which are probably more likely to have these.

That’s funny, one of my most downvoted is also about drag, but from the other side.

Bunch of ones where I’m defending Hexbear downvoted 0 to -5, but then I found this one:

Context is something about the election. The post is deleted, so idk what the photo was of, but I was responding to something about how not voting or voting for a 3rd party makes you a Trump supporter.

gendered by placing a sticker on the door

We have that at my work, but they are still gender-neutral bathrooms when the other one is in use and someone needs to use it. You can’t really ungender-neutral those bathrooms.

rather than making money for the prison industrial complex at the dev’s expense.

As in, they probably won’t let him do it right?

What if they were able to work on it from lockup? I know it won’t happen, but the system is gonna make them do work anyway, so why not this?

Please, can we be?! 🙏

Maybe I’m wrong here but to me it feels like they become less human…

Oof, try not to do that. De-humanizing a people is a slippery slope.

If you look at the rhetoric spewed by our president-elect and his flunkies, you can see where many Americans (at least 77m) get their marching orders. Unfortunately, the rest of us are just left to deal with this bad rap because of it. A lot of it comes from, as others said, propaganda in the media - distraction techniques, obfuscation, identity politics - because it sells. This, of course, also stems from our obsession with capitalism - letting the market and million/billionaires do whatever they want because it’s “good for the economy”. We haven’t matured enough to know that what’s good for the worker is good for the economy (or more insidious theories of this being done purposefully to keep us in “survival mode”).

Many of us who are not as you describe are moving out - a sort-of “vote with your wallets” of what country we support. However, not everyone has the ability to do that, and still others have a desire to fix this country. So, don’t paint Americans with such a broad brush because there are many of us who look at those you are speaking of with shame and disgust.

Your views are quite extreme and aren’t shared by most. Interesting that you group .ml in there too. Tell me, what instances do you find amenable?

You also have the option to not react to people you believe is trolling in bad faith, and report them if you feel they are brewing the rules.

Leaving more power in the user’s control- you decide a user is a troll and the mods don’t see it that way, you block them and anyone who does want to see them has the option.

I was just correcting your misrepresentation of drag’s neopronoun. Asking someone to call you dragon fucker every time they referred to you would not be shorthand. Plus, drag’s username was dragon rider where I’ve seen drag.

Here’s the thing - who cares if someone wants to post about flat earth theories? If people like it, it will be upvoted, and if they don’t, it will be downvoted. Why remove it? That’s the point - let the users decide, not the mods. Power to the people, the mods just step in when they post 10 times in an hour about flat earth theories.

Unfortunately, you’ll have to switch to subscriptions when you sort by new.

This is not true, the neopronoun was ‘drag’. Sorry you’re so caught up on what people want to be called. 🤷

Imagine running, say, a community for vulnerable trans kids, and being forced to allow a constant influx of ‘helpful suggestions’, just so long as they’re phrased in pretty language.

What will happen is Trans kids will go over to one of the trans-friendly instances, and the .world will be where the trans defenders go to debate chuds.

Imagine, letting people decide for themselves… 😱

Wait, it was about the VEGANS again?!

I agree with this, as long as lines are drawn at the kind of conspiracy theories of “homosexuality is a mental illness”, and the like. I want to make a point that this would pertain to memes as well.

This is the time to draw clear lines, because we are deciding the tone/direction of one of the largest instance in Lemmy.

With the timing being suspiciously close to Meta’s clearly bigoted “relaxation” of the mod rules, this brings with it a bad feel, but let’s remember, the fediverse is just growing and taking shape, so this was inevitable (and many of us have been watching it unfold). But we have to remember that we shape it, unlike the corporate shit we left. Make your voices heard.

That’s definitely eerie. You may be prophetic, we need more details!