You’re basically telling us “if you don’t like it then leave”, and yeah, sure, we’re not hostages here. We chose to be here and we can choose to leave. Leaving is no big deal on its own, I have accounts on other instances. I have the technical skills to start my own instance, just other reasons why I won’t. I could even leave Lemmy altogether and my life would carry on. I’m still commenting here because I’m also stubborn I guess.

My current thought is that people should have a choice over how they experience the fediverse

Absolutely, but note that the if you don’t like it then leave also goes for any other instance, including places like exploding-heads. We’re not proposing to exclude individuals that cannot help being who they are. They are there because they actively choose to be, and stand for whatever is happening there. Again, what is the value in keeping that contact open?

You cannot be a neutral actor, this is impossible. With every decision you make, you’re making a stand, in one way or another, even by inaction. Even if you don’t mean or realize it, you are implicitly standing for the values of the places you’re too afraid to block, over the values of many of your users who are already here, discussing this. You indicate that you can’t admin a community of vulnerable people, but who is vulnerable? Who is not vulnerable? What kind of people are you looking for? If we were to make an instance that curates federation with others, you would call that restricted, but aren’t you actually restricting this place to a specific kind of people?

This is literally the paradox of tolerance.

The condition is clear, and I have stated it. I do not want another instance to create a problem for users minding their own business browsing Locally. If I were to receive many user reports - and I mean reports of specific content - I may also take action even if these are not Local.

What would you consider a problem? What is the kind of specific content that would make you act? Because at this point I’m believing that even if we report something, you might think “it’s not a big deal”, “sorry you feel offended but they didn’t break any rules”, etc. You mention that you’ve never experienced harassment, and you haven’t seen it? How would you react to an user reporting harassment if you don’t believe it’s harassment?

I’m not trying to change your mind, but maybe give something to think about. As I said, leaving this place is not a big deal.

Yes, that sounds really demoralizing. :( I don’t know how you did it.

This leads me to a Linux discussion about Wayland. I think this has happened before, at least in Jerboa. Wonder if the comment IDs time out and get assigned to a different one?

Edit: Okay I opened it in the browser and now I can see what you meant to link.

You’re such an active user that at the beginning I thought it was your instance, and your presence here makes this place very active and interesting. I agree it’d be quite easy to associate you with mander as one and the same.

I haven’t reported because I don’t even know how to. Consider this my report.

But this seems like a big inconsistence. Did you even see the posts? How’s that for a case-by-case basis? What is a case bad enough? If this doesn’t do it, I don’t know what would.

It’s a shame, it was such a nice instance for science topics. But the admin makes the instance. I will move elsewhere.

What would a conspiracy community be about? Done right, I get the relationship between a science interest and a ‘skeptic’ interest, though I find it’s not often done right.

However my impression of ‘conspiracy’ is a strange paranoia that has nothing to do with science, and sometimes goes directly against. What kind of topics would be there?

First I got a wall but Firefox reading mode got me through.

The relevant parts:

How Can You Avoid Getting Bit?

In order to avoid tick bites, wear long clothing, stuff your pant legs into your socks and consider treating your clothes with permethrin insecticide to avoid unwanted passengers. Environmental Protection Agency–registered tick repellents, especially those containing DEET, are also effective at keeping the parasites and other bugs away. Avoid obvious tick habitats such as shady brush, even if it’s in your own yard. When you return home, throw your clothes in the dryer and do a thorough check for ticks on your body. Ticks love nooks and crannies, so pay extra attention to damp spots such as your armpits or the backs of your knees. Also check your dogs because dog ticks can carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which can also infect humans.

Even with these preventive measures, if you see a tick lodged on you, skip the matches or nail polish and resist the urge to pick it off with your fingers—you’ll only leave the tick’s mouth lodged into the skin. Instead use tweezers and pluck at the site of the bite as close to the skin as possible. If you’re planning to go camping in areas with known high tick counts, carry fine-tip tweezers—they could save your life. The CDC advises to consult your health care provider after noticing a tick bite if you start to experience flulike symptoms such as headache, chills or fever. It’s always best to catch tick-borne illnesses early.

If you’re not in the Americas, the Rocky Mointain Fever won’t be relevant. But for example, in Europe, Tick Borne Encefalitis (TBE) is a big problem. Information on this and even other countries:

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/tick-borne-diseases

I am playing it right now! It was at 20% sale a few days ago. Don’t know if it’ll get even more discounted later.

It is nearly perfect for the deck. I only have a small grievance with moving things in the inventory. It takes a long while to step through the slots. But maybe I’m doing something wrong.

Tunic is also on my wishlist. Crossing fingers!

Is this a reference to something?

I enjoy writing by hand, but I do look forward to a good e-ink device (Products like the remarkable have a subscription model and it’s closed hardware and software, which is a big negative to me). Waiting to see how projects like PineNote evolve.

For now I just write on which ever notebook is closest to me. The act of writing is more important than actually storing information somewhere outside of my head.

Agreed, I’m neither a man nor an incel but I’m diagnosed autism and ADHD and even with diagnoses and a lot of help on paper this is extremely frustrating. Too many therapies that are based on neurotypicals and we’re only beginning to scratch the surface of why they don’t work. Too many of us end up feeling deeply misunderstood and hopeless. I have to constantly keep up with autism research only to be able to speak my mind and avoid losing more years to failed attempts. I’m lucky about the people that surround me to have stopped me from increased resentment and many types of maladaptive coping mechanisms.

This is just a teaser and I’m looking forward to the finished images.

However it always amazes me how disappointingly non-detailed pictures of planets can be even on the most powerful telescopes. Because they’re that far away! It takes something like Cassini going all the way there to give us a better look.

That said, the most powerful view of Saturn for me was the one I saw with my own eyes through a local telescope. It was just a little blurry thing but just actually seeing it there with the ring shape with my own eyes was indescribable.

A roundabout in my home city was turned into an elevated 4-way intersection. It wasn’t an improvement. When I visualize the city I always see the roundabout. It was there all my life.

As soon as I read this, the song started playing automatically in my head. Along with most of the visual sequences, and Richard Dean Anderson’s smile.

Ohh such a nice stand and such growth!

Thank you!

Exactly! What if I’m removing the ones that would otherwise have the best chances‽

I deleted my posts but not my account so that I can keep deleting them.

At the rate of one gram per hour.