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- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 9 minutes ago:
Hey. I’m learning Spanish, I’m a volunteer, and I run and cycle on the regular!
Somehow, that doesn’t stop you sounding like a bigot though…
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 6 days ago:
kind of how AOSP is for Android)
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
You don’t “confirm” it. It’s an attempt to describe a system/outcome. It’s a model of a system, not the system itself and no model is perfect, because all models are our attempt to understand and describe things, and there is no such thing as perfect understanding.
However, it’s a highly accurate model, that explains things very well. So, either we will find that one day, we make a brand new, better model (this seems unlikely given the accuracy of the current model, but possible). Or, more likely, we continue to come to a better understanding of the system, and improve the model we use to describe it.
- Comment on Why are Maries Sues hated while Gary Stus are loved? 2 weeks ago:
I think this thread of replies largely denying it happens, or arguing as for why there’s a good reason that it happens should give you an idea why the issue happens in the first place.
- Comment on Sharing posts across instances 4 weeks ago:
And smart clients/UIs like tesseract realise that the link is to a remote lemmy instance, and then give you the option of viewing it remotely or from your own instances perspective
- Comment on Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O. 4 weeks ago:
On the horizon? They crossed that horizon a long time ago. It’s just going to accelerate now
- Comment on fedi 4chan? 4 weeks ago:
Any place with anonymous/ephermal account and posts as the default is going to attract the worst people in the world…
- Comment on Can you create/moderate a community on a instance other than your own? 4 weeks ago:
Reports federate, in a limited way. They federate to the instance the community is hosted on, the instance the reported user is hosted on, the instance the reporting user is hosted on (well technically, it doesn’t federate to the last one, as that is where it started). I don’t believe that a report will federate to a remote instance that doesn’t meet one of those criteria, even if it hosts a moderator for the community, but I’m not certain about this one.
Either way, report resolutions don’t directly federate, so resolving a report doesn’t resolve it on the other instances. It looks like they federate, because post removal from a mod federates, and removing a post auto closes the report. However, a report that was spurious or a troll or whatever that isn’t going to be actioned, has to be manually closed down on each instance it federates to.
- Comment on What is the name of the sexuality of being into the opposite gender and willing to date the same gender but not finding anyone of the same gender attractive? 4 weeks ago:
I’m panromantic, but attracted to men, however I only date women. My partner is a woman :)
- Comment on What is the name of the sexuality of being into the opposite gender and willing to date the same gender but not finding anyone of the same gender attractive? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not the OP, but their question was pretty much describing me.
For me, it’s about intimacy. I value intimacy. Hugging, kissing, touching, holding hands, sharing moments, laying on the couch together watching TV etc. Those are things that I don’t do with my friends, and aren’t things that I’m looking for from my friends.
Asexual folk have developed language that talks about the way they navigate similar situations. Sex averse, sex neutral and sex positive. So even though I’m not ace, the terms apply in a similar way to my relationships. Using these terms, I would describe myself as sex neutral. Which is to say that I don’t seek it out, and I don’t miss it. Yet, it’s also a very strong form of intimacy, which I value a great deal, and as an expression of intimacy, it’s very much something I’m happy to share with my partner.
- Comment on What is the name of the sexuality of being into the opposite gender and willing to date the same gender but not finding anyone of the same gender attractive? 4 weeks ago:
That’s pretty much me. I don’t really have a name for it. I just call myself queer, or sometimes panromantic.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 4 weeks ago:
Phones are already too small. I use a fold because it’s the only way I can get a decent sized phone now!
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, it does
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 1 month ago:
Like a phone book?
- Comment on Radical Feminism 1 month ago:
You’re inspired by an actively transphobic reddit community?
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 1 month ago:
No p zombies here!
- Comment on Meaning/implication of “you don’t have to do this” in this context? 1 month ago:
It means that the person you are talking to believes that you’re just making polite conversation because you’re uncomfortable with silence. They are letting you know that they would prefer you didn’t make conversation, because they prefer silence to idle chatter.
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 1 month ago:
I have very good spatial awareness, but it’s non visual. I can navigate my way mentally through a spaxe and “feel” where the walls are without seeing them. I have a sense of how big something is compared to something else and where they are relative to each other in space, but all non visually.
And I can rotate objects in my mind and change my perspective around them, but all without any visual elements.
I can sense the mental cube, but I can’t see it. It has no colour, no texture etc. Imagine a sort of mental bat sonar?
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 1 month ago:
No, I don’t get a sense of awe or beauty from reading things. I can appreciate when the folks I’m reading about experience those emotions, but I don’t feel them, because there is nothing to inspire them in me.
Which is why I tend to prefer books that go in to more depth about what people are thinking and feeling than books that go in to lots of visual detail
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 1 month ago:
The words have no sound. No volume, no pitch. They’re word ideas not words. I don’t hear anything, I just understand the words.
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 1 month ago:
I can think of words, I just don’t think I’m words. And when I think of a word I can run them together in a sentence. But they have no “sound”. They don’t have volume or pitch, they don’t sound like anyone, they’re just the idea of words. And because the words are after the fact, they don’t exist without me willing them in to existence. So no monologue in the way people describe it, and the idea of a conversation in my head doesn’t make sense. It would be more like writing a script for a conversation
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 1 month ago:
Like most folk with aphantasia, I thought that people talking about “seeing things in their imagination” were just being dramatic and using common language. It never occurred to me that they could genuinely see things in their minds. And the whole thing where people would be upset when a character in a TV show or movie didn’t look like how they’d imagined they would look, never made sense to me. And shows where people could recall the details of peoples faces for police sketch artists…
Basically, moments like that started adding up over my life, and then about 10 years ago, I read an article from someone who had discovered they had aphantasia through a similar path, and it all just fell in to place.
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 1 month ago:
I have aphantasia and no internal monologue, and a side benefit of that is that intrusive thoughts aren’t really a thing
- Comment on How to mute posts containing certain keywords on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
I know tesseract (an alternative front end) does. And I know that I’ve used mobile apps with that functionality before, but honestly, I don’t remember which ones had the feature and which ones didn’t, because I never used the feature, and these days, I even use tesseract on my phone.
- Comment on How to mute posts containing certain keywords on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
There are 3rd party apps and alternative Web front ends with that ability
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 1 month ago:
Yep!
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 1 month ago:
Gotosocial has a setting in development that is designed to baffle bots that don’t respect robots.txt. FediDB didn’t know about that feature and thought gotosocial was trying to inflate their stats.
In the arguments that went back and forth between the devs of the apps involved, it turns out that FediDB was ignoring robots.txt. ie, it was badly behaved
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Some people are academically gifted. Your flatmates experience was similar to mine, except as well as acing the exams, I failed the written piece assignments that I couldn’t just throw together the day before they were due.
- Comment on Not federated Lemmy instances? 2 months ago:
They were running a self maintained fork of lemmy that wasn’t compatible, though I don’t know if that was the original reason
- Comment on Not federated Lemmy instances? 2 months ago:
Hexbear was the only instance with a sizable user base that used to do this, but these days they federate too