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?

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.

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.

I take meds and I will never fold. Best I can do is actually doing the laundry.

My package deliveries usually say something crazy like ‘between 9 and 16’ and… There goes the day.

It’s the fact that it’s not even relaxing. It’s just there, in mild dread.

I had to thin a clump of tomato plants this morning and actually yelped “so sorry!” as I did it. It’s ridiculous. And I’m currently procrastinating on separating the paprika plants because I have to recover first.

Using the compost does make it a little better. I also try to think of the clump as a single plant that I’m pruning, which to be fair I also do very hesitantly.

For me, unless it fits in the mailbox, you have to be ready to receive a package. I thought about it for days only to forget about it this morning when it arrived. Luckily I was at home.

The source showed the tweet as an image, so I went into the sewer waters from Fritter. And, yep, it’s genuinely there.

It’s not even that I believe him unable to have such bad takes: it’s not the first time. I have just seen a few fake ones. But the fake ones aren’t even needed!

Interesting. I wish they sold this in Sweden. Best I can get is a product containing sulphur, but it’s not very cheap.