ZDL

@ZDL@ttrpg.network

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People's Republic of Britain - A community dedicated to documenting and critiquing government overreach in the UK in terms of freedom of speech⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, God. Freeze Peach has reached the UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨!unlockthread@lemm.ee For those frustrated by locked threads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you want to edit this so there’s a direct link? Like putting in !unlockthread@lemm.ee in the text somewhere (or whatever the link format is)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump picks vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy as health secretary⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse.

  They’re going to have to go to China to get the seals for those.

  I mean it took a Chinese maker to get seals for one of the few remaining living people who needs an iron lung: www.wired.com/story/iron-lung-maker-community/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, whether something is “extreme” or not depends on someone’s background context, and I would definitely say that the content on lemmy.ml is considered somewhat extreme for someone on America.

  Weirdly, I find a lot of the content on America-centric sources (not just in Lemmy) to be pretty damned extreme myself. Like the casual assumption that guns are the right way to deal with all problems. (Slightly exaggerated, yes, but sadly only slightly.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is that there’s nothing specifically objectionable about .ml. There’s many instances out there, after all, and all of them are at some risk or another form over- (or under-)zealous moderation. If a community is on .ml and seems to be valuable I’ll go to it, unlike, say, a community on a hypothetical instance called youngnazisforfreedom.sieg.heil or whatever. If the moderation causes issues, I’ll switch to a community (or make another community) on another instance.

  THAT is to me the principle of the Fediverse: the ability to choose and to move on at need or will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the case of the “tech”-oriented instances it’s actually the user base I find distasteful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, before lecturing me you might want to check out which instance I’m coming in from.

  I said “I don’t have issues with .ml” … but I’m not coming in from a .ml account. So when I say “I have no issues with .ml” it’s in the context of the original question: do I refrain participating if the community is hosted on .ml.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a surprise. A japanimation fan from a japanimation instance cheering on genocide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But there’s no such thing as “politically neutral”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most political slurs (“tankie”, “Nazi”, “fascist”, “communist”, “leftist”, “liberal”, “centrist”, etc.), if they ever even start from a position of actually knowing what the words mean, rapidly transform into a general slur that means “someone that I disagree with who’s in a different political tribe from me”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not going to name them. The point of this isn’t to expose which instances I dislike, but rather to show that every instance has its fans and its antifans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whichever instance you choose, someone will have complaints about it. Personally I don’t have issues with .ml, but there are quite a few “tech”-oriented instances over which my trigger finger is itching on the site ban trigger.

  It’s all a question of which subset of human stupidity you’re willing to deal with. Because all humans are stupid, we’re just different in how and where we express it.