The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
All good and I appreciate it! Though to be clear I am not a communist, and don’t see myself becoming one. I’m not sure what label to apply to myself these days.
Ah, sorry then. It’s just that some things that you said in the comment (plus in your other comments - got to check profile to say if PTB/YDI/BPR/CLM) lean this way. Nevermind the advice then, but I hope that it’s useful for other lost commies like me.
I disagree that moderating tone of speech is censorship. The target of censorship is the discourse = “content”; a censor doesn’t want people to talking about certain ideas or facts. How those people express those ideas is orthogonal to the ideas themselves.
And moderating tone is often important because some tones are not conductive to discussion.
One of us! One of us! --another former .ml user.
PTB for sure.
I think that this ban can be explained, under .ml admin team insane troll logic, like this: you’re attacking Trump, thus you’re defending Biden (there’s even a “but” there! It invalidates everything that you said). Biden is helping the State of Israel to genocide the Palestinians so you’re implicitly backing up the genocide “lol.” so stop trolling “tnx.”
And since you seem to be also communist, a few pointers on the instance landscape:
[Sorry for the uncalled advice, it’s just stuff that I wish that I knew when I left .ml]
A group of room-mates once created a subreddit called r/195, after the number of their apartment. The sub became too popular for the room-mates to moderate, and they closed it down. Then someone created r/196 as its successor.
“Blow high” gets really close to the Swedish pronunciation. Or at least the closest that you can get in English.
(English hates long monophthongs so you can’t get the same vowel as that [o:] represented by ⟨å⟩ in Swedish. “Blow” has [əʊ̯] or [oʊ̯] depending on the dialect.)
I’ve seen a lot of LW users behaving like this.
They want a single comm per topic, preferably in LW; and everyone should go to that comm, no dissidence allowed. Always talking about “not splitting efforts”, or some FUD like “unless we gather together Lemmy will never succeed”.
And, when you tell them a clear “no”, they throw a tantrum. Like Serinus did there.
I think that they got out of Reddit, but they didn’t get Reddit out of themselves. They still behave like this was a Reddit-like monolithic platform; so when they see decentralisation - like multiple comms for the same topic, in different instances - they treat it as a bug, when it’s a feature.
Anyway, I’d call that FAPTB (failed attempt of powertripping). EDIT: wow, they removed your mention of the other comm! Talk about pettiness. PTB.
The reason why I don’t think that Dragon Rider is too relevant (not even as a last straw) is that, even if Moss strongly disagrees with how the admins handled that user, Blåhaj is still way more protected against trolls than Lemmy World would ever be. So it wouldn’t make sense to move the comm to LW.
Unless the issue is not how the admins handled it, but the fact that they handled it at all? LW has worse protection against trolls, but it gives the mods more control over their comms. That would fit well what you said in the second paragraph, and explain why drag was mentioned at all.
me: [rummages the fridge for leftover dinner]
The comment that you linked hints that the mod was already considering the migration for quite a while; so if the dragon rider event had any role, it was like a drop of water in the ocean.
If I had to take a guess it’s all about the admins keeping a closer control over the community than the mod in question wants to see. So far, so good, if she wants to mod a LW comm instead it’s her own decision, but then relinquish control to the people who were clearly against the move.
There’s another matter too.
Saying anything remotely iffy with a lemmygrad, threads, or hexbear account.
Last time that I checked this crap, I was busy criticising Hexbear, because HB was clearly trying to boss Blåhaj around on how it should manage its own instance.
However, both sides are in the wrong here, and Moss isn’t exactly blameless - why are they enforcing rules differently for users based on instance? Handling other instances is up to the admins, not community mods.
(The same applies to Threads.)
PTB.
I have no idea which ideological problems people are talking about. I do know however that users are not cattle - you can ask them to migrate to another comm, you can lock a community down, but you cannot herd them to the comm that you want by saying “go there”. And trying to prevent users from going to whatever comm they want is a big arsehole move.
Even the removal reply is power-tripping (and dumb/disingenuous/shitty). “Not relevant”? Goddammit this is a 196 community, there’s no such thing as “not relevant”! Who are they trying to fool with that toilet entry?
It’s less vague than it looks like - they’re restricting credits to people actively involved in the development process of the specific game, with no regards to the others, even if without those others the game wouldn’t exist. So the whole thing boils down to “we don’t care about who made the original, suck it up” - a middle finger coated with feigned politeness.
Good article. I’ll mostly nitpick, and add further info.
That 1.5 billion number is a red herring. It’s mostly non-native speakers, using English as a lingua franca. However, the impact of your native language over your thinking is clearly bigger than the one of some lingua franca; as such these numbers here are more relevant.
And for most part you don’t see stable communities shifting their language into a lingua franca. Most of the time they do it because their government explicitly or implicitly backs up another language - i.e. a “national language”.
But Macron et al. won’t mention that, right? Of course he won’t; because once you acknowledge that national languages are the problem, specially when associated with a colonial past, then French is part of the problem alongside English. (Plus quite a few other languages.)
What if language is less like a yoke than like a wind, nudging us in various directions?
That’s a great way to phrase it.
And, really, strong Sapir-Whorf (language dictates thought) is so blatantly false that it isn’t even interesting any more. The moderate/“weak” hypothesis, more aligned with what Whorf himself said, is likely true - and we should be studying how and when it is true.
Yes, I hate it. In fact, I hate most of the impact of smartphones on the internet:
Magus primus: “Fra’, ubi cannabis est? Fumare uolo sic?”
Magus secundus (elixus et fistulam habendum): “Aa fra’, nescio… scrutabor, mane… …mane! In manu mea!”
Magus primus: “Ooo… uere?” [Secundus primo fistulam dat] “Gratias multas, fra…” [primus fumat] “Ergo… ritum quando facemus?”
Secundus: “Risum?”
Primus: “mmffffffffhahahaha”
Portuguese speakers: here’s a great free Latin 101 textbook.
Other tips for people starting out:
About Spanish: we know that the word wasn’t directly inherited by Spanish because Latin /f/ typically becomes /h/ and then gets deleted (but it’s still spelled as such); for example facere→hacer “to do” or filium→hijo “son”. In fact the word faja does have a native albeit archaic cognate with ⟨h⟩, it’s haza “thin strip of land”.
Exceptions are typically
The case of faggot* “bundle” is an interesting one. The word was borrowed from Old French fagot “bundle”, in turn borrowed from Italian fagotto “bundle” (also a musical instrument, dunno the English name). However, past that, the etymology is disputed, and I don’t buy the idea that fagotto comes from *facus←fascis, here’s why.
Late Latin regularising -is into -us or -a is common, so a word like *fascus wouldn’t be strange. But why was that /s/ dropped, if Italian is OK with medial /sk/? And it would need to be dropped early enough to allow a rather erratic /k/ ⟨c⟩ → /g/ shift, that doesn’t even trigger regularly in Italian.
But let’s say that the /s/ was dropped “because reasons”. Why is the diminutive -ettus/-ittus, even if -culus/-ulus is more common? You’d probably end with *faculum→*facchio.
And, if you don’t drop the /s/, you end with *fasculum→fascio. Cue to the word originating “fascism”.
But, fine, let’s use -ettus. You’d end with *facettum→*facetto, with a clear /tʃ/ sound. (French would’ve borrowed it as *fachet or similar).
Are you guys getting what I’m saying? You need a lot of improbable events to explain the word “faggot” as backtracking to “fascis”.
My second best bet is barbarism. It might be worth to check for some similar word in Lombardic (the Germanic variety; not to be confused with Lombard), Italian did borrow a few of them.
*NOTE: I am using the word metalinguistically, to refer to itself, otherwise it’s hard to talk about etymology. I am aware that it is often used to target marginalised individuals and groups based on their sexuality; however that is not what I am doing here.
Then they’ll say that God is probing them, or that it’s a sign of Apocalypse, or that he was sending to heaven the just among them, all that shit. They love double standards, even if their bible says that God hates them (Proverbs 20:23).
I won’t talk about the [de]merits of what you’re defending.
YDI:
99.99% of Lemmy boils down to “communities where you can discuss deep issues, and soapbox to your heart’s content”. Then there are a few islands of fluff, where people share pics and make some casual, non-divisive conversation. LW/c/pics is clearly one of those islands; yet you’re trying to trigger a discussion there? “My right to soapbox precedes the right of everyone else to see fluff”.
Crazyblu is spot on: you were being passive aggressive. You could have voiced the exact same discourse (“I’m against animals being chained” or similar) in a more polite way; or, if you can’t be polite due to the topic, at least be upfront with the aggressiveness, or use a dry tone. Pass-aggro is the worse of both worlds.
The user is clearly disengaging without arguing (“I’m not having this conversation”), but you’re still insisting.
BPR:
Unless context dictates otherwise, an omitted subject gets interpreted as the first person, so your comment reads like “[I] made a new account [to] circumnavigate the block…”. As such, the mod interpreting this as you admitting ban evasion is totally justified.
When you find a user evading a ban, instead of interacting with them, you report the user to the admins.
Even then, IMO the mod should have checked if you were evading a ban, based on usernames or asking the admins for help. That’s why I’m calling this BPR instead of YDI.
“Ban evading fuck off back into your hole cretin” is not an acceptable reason. You don’t insult users in mod logs.