Long hair is easier to cut than short hair. You can give someone with butt length hair a trim down to shoulder length in two minutes.

I hope you both have fun pegging him organic style

That makes sense, masculinity is the main thing straight men have that gay women don’t. And if it’s stopping them from enjoying themselves, it sounds toxic.

I know plenty of gay women who are into gock, so why don’t straight men like gock?

Well, I’ve said My piece, and I’m satisfied that it’s been considered. My opinion on this issue is by no means firm. Both you and I have spoken only in gut feelings, not in data, and that is because I don’t care about this issue all that much, and I suspect you don’t care to debate it either. So have a fun day.

Yes yes, I know, it was a very bad instance, but I don’t think it’s a good reason to make this decision in all the other instances.

Let Me put Myself on the other side of this. Imagine that MULTIVERSE develops a cooking community where we share recipes and food photos. Someone from .world posts their hamburgers. I remove their post for gore. They keep posting meat. I instance ban them.

Well, in that case, even though I’m ethically opposed to that person’s treatment of animals and don’t want them around any of our users, I believe in the principles of the Fediverse strongly enough that I think they should be able to post their hamburgers to the .world local copy of our food community, and share their burgers with the .world people who like to see hamburgers. Even though I think they’re doing a bad thing, I support the rights that enable them to do it.

I’m not familiar with that drama, so I’m going to pretend that user came from .world to make what I’m about to say easier to explain. I think that’s a .world problem. .world users will see it, report it, the report will go to .world admins. Then, the .world admins get a chance to home ban this user, which sounds like it was sorely needed, and if it turns out the .world admins are okay with gore, then they can act according to their own values.

Of course I personally don’t usually agree with gore posting in the way it sounds like it was being done there, and I’ve removed a couple of gore posts from our instance that came from other instances. But some people actually like seeing gore, it doesn’t bother them. The two biggest examples of gore that people might not find offensive are guro porn, and meat. I wouldn’t remove guro porn if it were properly marked as NSFW and had the right content warning. And I know a lot of other instances are okay with posting meat. Hexbear allows meat if it has an appropriate content warning, for example. Oh, and how could I forget, video games. If there’s a c/doom it should definitely allow video game gore!

Now from your description it sounds like the gore incident you describe was very much not either of those two exceptions. But I’m using gore as a very general example to talk about how different people have different values. So I lean towards allowing instances to make their own decisions in cases like this.

I’m not sure I agree with this one, actually. If one of our users is banned from a remote instance for reasons I disagree with, I might still want them to be able to talk to our users in the comments on that remote community.

What seems useful about this change is that our users will no longer waste their time commenting in a community they don’t realise they’re banned from. That’s good. But I dunno. There are lots of reasons a user could be banned from a remote instance, but the local admin doesn’t want to do anything to enforce that ban.

Like that guy with the thorns! I love the þorns! If that guy comes to our instance and then gets banned from some other instance for a silly reason like “trolling”, I don’t want to help enforce that ban.

Yes, that’s why I have no blocks

As an admin I don’t block nearly as often as I ban. Most banned users are from .world or dbzer0. We also defederate the tankie triad.

Is trekkie a political identity?

AI companies support the age verification laws because they want to ban kids from talking to anyone on the internet except their robot pedophiles

I blame it on partisan realism, wherein the social construct of consensus reality is bifurcated along political lines. People have learned to use consensus reality as a weapon by denying the very existence of other ideologies. “If you disagree with my political views, you are literally not real”. I wrote a longer explanation on My blog

No, the questions are rhetorical.

That’s a terrible modlog entry. I would have banned OP for transphobia and xenophobia.

I can agree that voting in primaries is our best chance to prevent Trump’s coup without bloodshed. If the result in the midterms is favourable, he can be deadlocked until 2028 and his second coup will fail. But if bad, centrist candidates win the primaries, and the voters don’t turn out for those candidates, then his second coup will succeed, and our only chance will be open revolution.

Not really, no

AIl that doesn’t matter when he cancels the 2028 election, declares martial law, and sends the army into the cities to exterminate all trans people and immigrants.

You’ve got to be ready for that. Attend a protest and while you’re there, find the people who organise actions and tell them you want to volunteer. Build a resistance one step at a time.

Humans don’t treat animals well enough.

Monkey’s finger curls

You have just been born in a puppy mill. It’s overcrowded, there’s shit everywhere, and a lot of the dogs you’re crammed in with are diseased. Your mother tries to look at you, but her eyes are stuck closed with conjunctivitis. You try to suck on her nipples but there’s so little milk. You cough.