Right now the user count Lemmys is comparatively tiny when held up against reddit - but the user count isn't the thing that makes a social media site, it's the engagement...
I think I've been more active on Lemmy in the past five days than I had been on reddit for the past 2 years.
Decentralization of social media is extremely enticing to me, and I really want this community to flourish, so I've been trying to make this into an active space.
I've seen a few (not many) people online fawn over how Khaled bin AlWaleed converted to veganism, and even got his dad to do the same. There's also talk that he plans to open a chain of plant-based restaurants throughout the Arab world....
I don’t spend my time defending bad people or actions just because the person happens to be “vegan” (I feel hesitant to call someone’s who has shown blatant disregard for human life as vegan rather than simply plant-based, tbh).
Lots of people who share traits with me are assholes but that’s just because lots of people are assholes in general.
This is disheartening to see as someone who just switched to Invidious. Does anyone with more in-depth knowledge on how Invidious and similar Youtube front-ends work know if it's possible for Google to shutdown access to their servers for Invidious/Piped instances?
Was having this conversation with some new friends earlier and was curious. When did you guys figure out your sexuality/identity or whatever? Was there a person that helped you or a particular moment or event?
the first female fictional character I remember thinking was hot was Franziska von Karma.
Wow, that is a throwback. I now want to replay through every Phoenix Wright game.
Uhhhh if anyone has resources for figuring out if you may be multigender
The gender dysphoria bible was a pretty enlightening read when I was beginning my gender crisis. Don’t let the word bible influence you into taking it as gospel, no document is perfect, but it does a pretty thorough job of explaining the different feelings characteristic of trans and non-binary people.
(Are dumb memes allowed here? Should we have two separate communities, one for news/politics and one for memes, or is this corner of the fediverse still too small for that right now?)
If you know of a community that isn't listed here, or you just created one, mention it in the comments and I'll add it to the list! /// Si vous connaissez une communauté qui n'est pas listée, ou vous en avez créé une, mentionnez-la dans les commentaires et je l'ajouterai!...
I don't get it. Why do some cishets see us as s porn category? And why are these same straights some of themost prejudiced people? For example why are us bis seen as threesome objects in the eyes of some people?
The anger is part of the kink for them. If one becomes an ally, queerness loses its taboo status and then they’re not as turned on. Their hornyness takes priority on our rights.
This community was created in reaction to the reddit API fiasco that is currently on-going. I admittedly don't really have any previous experience as an online community moderator, nor do I have any plans set in stone for this space. Please feel free to use this thread to comment any suggestions or things you'd like to see in...
I go to the hospital everyday and take all their discarded foreskins from the circumcisions. As a hunter, I was brought up to not waste any part of an animal.
I fry them up in lard, and serve them on top of steak from Elwood’s Dog Meat! Yummy!
Steel bands tighten around my heart. My knees knock and my vision wavers. But then I remember I'm not on Reddit, and metacanada has not yet replaced the moderation team with pod people....
We’re talking about aggressively anti-social people who don’t really believe in governance and humanism at all.
…so, your typical modern conservative?
I say that slightly tongue-in-cheek, but I do stand by that the people you describe are almost exclusively going to be right-wing.
That’s definitely not to say that there’s never been any online communities negatively impacted by left-wing politics. I can’t even remember the number of subreddits I used to enjoy that have been overtaken by tankies/Stalinists/Maoists/Soviet-apologizers.
This is a good point, but I'd like to add that we should also distinguish between lower-case conservatives and the Conservative Party of Canada.
I know and love plenty of conservative people. We have different ways of seeing the world, and believe different methods to be best to achieve our goals, but ultimately we all want everyone to live happy, fulfilling lives.
If you align with the Conservative Party of Canada, you are much closer to fascism than I am willing to associate with, and frankly I am too queer to feel safe around these people.
Honestly, I think this is being a bit generous to the right. Maybe the right thirty years ago was as you describe, but not anymore. Major right-wing institutions have done little to nothing to push back these people supposedly “adopting a right-wing persona”, because they realized these people are an amazing way to push the social narrative to the right and amass more power.
I think respectable right-wing politics are dead (or at the very least, on life-support) in a post-Trump era. The Republican Party was initially pretty hostile to Trump and his style of politics, until they realized they could exploit it to garner more power.
I highly recommend watching Innuendo Studio’s video on YouTube, The Alt-Right Playbook: You Go High, We Go Low. The whole series is worth a watch, but this video in particular shows how good faith attempts to reach across the political spectrum are easily exploited by fascists.
I imagine they’re referring to Fox News and similar outlets describing the current situation with forest fire smoke as “liberal propaganda”, and implying that the dangers of smoke inhalation are false, a leftist hoax.
Canada lost 17,000 jobs in May — mostly among young people (www.cbc.ca)
Do your part, try not to lurk!
Right now the user count Lemmys is comparatively tiny when held up against reddit - but the user count isn't the thing that makes a social media site, it's the engagement...
Succession or hard times? Motive behind possible sale of Irving Oil stumps industry watchers (www.cbc.ca)
Article en français (Radio-Canada)
What do people think of vegans like Saudi Prince Khaled bin AlWaleed?
I've seen a few (not many) people online fawn over how Khaled bin AlWaleed converted to veganism, and even got his dad to do the same. There's also talk that he plans to open a chain of plant-based restaurants throughout the Arab world....
Is this the place to chat about Drag Race?
I wanna gossip about Dragrace and I’m not sure where I should do it!...
Invidious: "YouTube legal team contacted us" (github.com)
They don't understand that we never agreed to any of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API....
Tag yourself! I'm bibi (lemmy.ca)
I love my community <3 (lemmy.ca)
So what made yall figure it out?
Was having this conversation with some new friends earlier and was curious. When did you guys figure out your sexuality/identity or whatever? Was there a person that helped you or a particular moment or event?
I identify as cosmic bowling (lemmy.ca)
(Are dumb memes allowed here? Should we have two separate communities, one for news/politics and one for memes, or is this corner of the fediverse still too small for that right now?)
Fuck it (lemmy.ca)
What bots would you like to see on Lemmy?
Hi, I'm learing python and I was thinking about createing Lemmy bot.
List of provincial communities / Liste de communautés provinciales
If you know of a community that isn't listed here, or you just created one, mention it in the comments and I'll add it to the list! /// Si vous connaissez une communauté qui n'est pas listée, ou vous en avez créé une, mentionnez-la dans les commentaires et je l'ajouterai!...
why is the lgbt so fetishized sometimes?
I don't get it. Why do some cishets see us as s porn category? And why are these same straights some of themost prejudiced people? For example why are us bis seen as threesome objects in the eyes of some people?
A community for the province of New Brunswick! / Une communauté pour la province du Nouveau-Brunswick! (lemmy.ca)
Do you live in New Brunswick? Are you originally from there? You're thinking of moving there? Then join us at !newbrunswick...
Welcome New-Brunswickers / Salut les néo-brunswickois•es!
This community was created in reaction to the reddit API fiasco that is currently on-going. I admittedly don't really have any previous experience as an online community moderator, nor do I have any plans set in stone for this space. Please feel free to use this thread to comment any suggestions or things you'd like to see in...
Humans ☕ (i.imgur.com)
Humanely boiled human babies 🥰 (i.imgur.com)
Every time I see this community, my blood runs cold.
Steel bands tighten around my heart. My knees knock and my vision wavers. But then I remember I'm not on Reddit, and metacanada has not yet replaced the moderation team with pod people....