That’s a country where being brown is dangerous, not being straight.

Though being the straight partner to a brown person can be dangerous here (even if you yourself are not brown), so I guess it does work in a way.

Apparently, some communities have had some success migrating, so there might be that possibility if that’s the path you want to go down.

Which is one of the reasons downvotes are disabled here. A policy I hope will carry over to PieFed.

Yeah, I don’t necessarily have to like the people who build the software I use. I don’t like MS or Cisco, but I’ve built a career on their work and I’m fine with that.

Apparently, your namesake (Interstellar) supports PieFed, but I haven’t been able to log in to Blahaj’s instance with it. It keeps giving me an error saying the API is not enabled.

Neat! I’ll have to play with it when I get the chance.

How does PieFed differ from Lemmy? At first glance, they seem like similar applications. Does it have any particular strengths or additional features I might want to try out?

Using a discussion forum moderated by someone is a completely different thing than using code written by them. A mod or admin of an instance has power to shape discussion on that instance.

It’s not just about “supporting” him in some abstract sense, it’s about potentially exposing blahaj users to the very hate that blahaj is meant to be a safe space from.

Oh, fuck off with your bigoted bullshit that “we all know”.

Multiple states: “Let’s literally use the force of law to ban trans people from existing.”

This jackoff: “Hmmm, I just don’t know if the bourgeoisie is really against trans rights! It’s so hard to tell!”

I’m not going to weigh in on the defederation issue. I don’t use enough .ml communities to know how this guy’s views reflect in the moderation policies of the instance. But fuck him in particular.

The problem with moving to another server software is that there’s a much bigger developer ecosystem around Lemmy. Other projects simply can’t match that.

Like, there are multiple Lemmy clients in Google Play and F-Droid, for example. There isn’t even one for PieFed in either store.

They don’t call it TERF Island for nothing.

Honestly, modern conservatism is largely indistinguishable from Nazi-ism at this point anyway.

That, but also doctors tend to push parents very hard for surgical interventions when they have an intersex child. Which kind of makes the moral panic about gender affirming care for children look as hypocritical as it is. They love doing gender-related surgery on kids when it reinforces the notion of a gender binary, even on kids who haven’t even developed a sense of self yet, but not so much when it flies in the face of that preconceived notion.

If “treated with basic human dignity and respect” is “treated differently from everyone else” in your eyes, that sounds like a you problem.

I swear, somewhere along the line, we all ended up living in Pleasantville.

The fact that merely acknowledging that LGBTQ+ people exist and are worthy of basic human dignity and respect is considered a “political opinion” is exactly the problem.

The lighting, the angle, and the fact that she appears to have just finished working out (and is thus very, very sweaty).

That’s not a mannequin. It’s just a lady showing off her awesome abs.

On the one hand, I agree that corporate exploitation of Pride (like corporate exploitation of most things in general) is pretty gross.

On the other, it’s kinda heartening in a weird way when these companies see LGBTQ+ people the same way they see everyone else. Granted, what they see them as is resources to be exploited and bled dry and then thrown away, but hey, to be honest, that’s an improvement over how they used to see us.

Sure, and it’s fine when a meme flops. But this person was apparently being an asshole about the entire concept of memes.

My wife is into things I’m not into. Sometimes she even drops references to those things into conversations that I don’t get. You know what I don’t do? I don’t say, “So, I’m supposed to memorize all these TV shows in order to have a conversation with you?” That’s being a jerk, and completely unnecessary. I just kinda politely smile and nod, and move on.