These absurd "abortion trafficking" laws are not meant to be 100% enforceable. They are meant to create fear and confusion around aiding abortion-seekers, leaving them isolated and alone.
A person I otherwise deeply respect has remained (very) active on the deadbird site, and is even paying for it, because (the person says) it fulfills a professional need that can't be met elsewhere.
My friend calls it "a deal with the devil." On that, we agree.
I have my share of hypocrisies, and try to manage them carefully. Sticking with a site run by an enemy of journalism and democracy was just too much to stomach.
@dangillmor If you are still using Twitter, you have no right to criticize anybody else's consumer habits full stop. Giving money to Musk is about as harmful as giving money to hate funding corporations.
Very rough but wanted this magazine to have an icon! Based off of the popular kbin mascot designed by FixedFun and further tweaked by Minnieo. Tried to represent some of the big fandoms on here but this draft only ended up with 4.
Honestly I think it would be nicer to instead check in on everyone's main fandom for this magazine. Obviously if your fandom doesn't have a simple symbol it will be harder to apply. But I'd like to try!
Btw, this is me testing the limits of kbin's microblog feature, so the following post will be long. I will post a TLDR at the end.
It has been nearly a month since I've first joined #fediverse. Even before the #reddit exodus, I was already growing tired of the site for the fact that despite how large the communities were, they were very cold and impersonal. There was also the fact that for the #queer community at least, we had been siloed off from the rest of reddit, because nearly every topic involving #LGBTQ issues were very often met with hostility by a good amount of users, often followed by a locked topic. It was even getting to the point where I didn't even feel safe in the some of the more socially liberal spaces.
The fact that mods were being stripped of some of the few tools they had to keep their communities hospitable, I knew the writing was on the wall. I tried many reddit alternatives during the blackout, including #raddle and #tildes. But once I figured out how #kbin, #mastodon, and #lemmy worked, I found myself feeling right at home on the fediverse.
I think the main reason why is because many of the people here are misfits from other platforms. Many of the users on mastodon are former twitter users who were driven off by the corporate culture of twitter, and later by Elon Musk and the poisoning of the platform. Others are former redditors like me who found platforms like lemmy, and are in the midst of trying to rebuild the community they once had on thier former platform.
Fediverse definitely doesn't feel "mainstream" like the sites that many of us come from , but perhaps that is part of the appeal, and why I have taken to it far quicker than any other social platform I have tried in the past. I'm just hoping as the fediverse continues to grow and attract new users, that it doesn't lose it's quirky and experimental spirit.
TLDR: I like fediverse. It's weird, quirky, and I feel more open here than I was ever able to be on reddit. Don't ever change.
In the year+ since Dobbs, nearly everything that Team "You're Overreacting" said would never happen has happened. It's almost like they were never arguing in good faith. Weird.
One thing I was often told was by apologists was "Of course they will never repeal Roe v Wade. There would be riots in the street everyday until it is reinstated." God damn, I wish "liberals" had the teeth the GOP claims they have.
@lifewithtrees Just played around with it. It really will create a broken down list for any task. From cleaning your house, to overthrowing the government of a small nation. I feel like I could take on the world
@Alice Sometimes I like what you say and want to say "yeah, yeah, totally!" but that doesn't mean I want to follow everything you say. I'm very selective with my follows.