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  • Hi rimu!

    I’ll reiterate what I’ve said before: I don’t think you’re bigoted or malicious. If you were actually a bigot, you probably would’ve turned against us long ago, kinda like the Tesseract dev. I believe you genuinely want to do right by us, despite everything that has happened.

    When I describe your allyship feeling conditional, it really is a feeling. I inherently distrust people who go on crusades against leftists they deem too radical, especially right now. Even though I hate tankies and people who defend authoritarianism, I hate anti-communist movements more. They are so often paired with reactionary scapegoating of minorities that I always get scared whenever I see it. Just like how I instinctively recoil whenever anyone says “fren,” I am instantly distrusting of vendettas against anarchists, communists, and socialists.

    When you lashed out against anarchist instances and users; crashing out to the point where you took a hiatus, it made me nervous about how far you might fall. A lot of people who personally clash with leftists can be pushed into dark places; burning every bridge with those who might otherwise ground them. Interpersonal connections do far more to radicalize than memes or websites. If you push away trans people who genuinely want to help you with your platform for being too sympathetic to anarchists, who will you listen to on our issues?

    So many trans people are anarchists, especially on Lemmy. Many of us need to bypass the official channels or break the law to get the gender affirming care we need. When governments from all corners of the political spectrum regularly make our lives a living hell, is it any wonder that we become so radicalized against it?

    Alienating anarchists will necessarily drive away a lot of trans people. You don’t need to be our friends and you are allowed to voice concerns you may have, but please don’t drive us all away. Having trans anarchists on your side is the best repellent to fascism you could possibly ask for.
















  • I really don’t know anybody from America who didn’t drink before 21. I’m still not a fan of alcohol outside of social events, didn’t go to parties often in the first place, and was generally a good little honors student who followed the rules. However, even I drank several times before it was legal.






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    At the very least this post needs to be tagged NSFW and given a content warning. Depression posting is allowed, but glorifying suicide is too far for what this instance allows, and not really what this community is about.

    Too many suicide jokes can really push communities from being “fun in the face of adversity,” to “wallowing in negativity.” I don’t think getting rid of them entirely is the right answer, but it cannot be so pervasive that people expect it every time they visit.

    I’m not gonna say your post is in the clear just yet, as I need to give this topic more thought. However, it should absolutely be hidden from people who filter out NSFW.


  • My guess is that it’s because the rest of the fediverse (ActivityPub) is FOSS, and a closed project wouldn’t get the same attention the fediverse gets. There has been early development on forks by people like Mia and db0 for personal use, but I’m not sure of the current status of such efforts. I suspect that such projects will remain obscure unless rimu goes off the deep end as hard as the Tesseract developer.