The vast majority of the 100 most common words in English are still inherited Germanic words.

English shares a common Germanic ancestor with German. German and English are sisters.

A tactic used when the person speaking has been recognized to speak according to the rules of the legislature. I don’t really see why that’s relevant here though?

No, see, it should be allowed when we agree with the people making the disruption. Otherwise absolutely not!

So it’s just Zoomer-speak (“Chat, I farted”) instead?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/us/reddit-race-black-people-twitter.html

Yeah, liberal/left subs definitely don’t do that.

I legitimately got top left wrong first time I looked at this.

To quote a popular hexbear aphorism present in this very thread, “‘Omg rude online’ like there’s no worse sin”.

If that were to become the enforced position of the entire dev team going forward, I promise that I will donate, and provide receipts.

Probably not - for me it’s more that the majority of my negative experiences on Lemmy have come on lemmy.ml, so the sticking point really is your involvement with it.

For a lot of other people in these threads though, it does seem like funding the hosting is the biggest deal. If the server costs for lemmy.ml are as low as you say, splitting off the hosting costs separately in some way (like taking donations directly from lemmy.ml that go into their own account separate from general Lemmy donations, for example) probably would see at least some sort of increase to donations to Lemmy.

If it wouldn’t be too much extra work, it’s probably worth a shot.

Person1, since you’re new here, this is Cowbee, our resident tankie apologist/propagandist.

The most reasonable-sounding genocide denier and authoritarian regime supporter this side of the gulags. I highly recommend their alt’s comments on Hexbear if you’re interested in their more “mask off” persona.

That’s correct. People actively shilling for authoritarian regimes committing human rights atrocities, denying genocides, and aggressively silencing all dissent do not deserve it.

All they’d have to do is develop from behind the scenes and not actively contribute to one of the worst places on the platform, and I’d have no problem donating to them.

But they don’t, and so I don’t, and instead I get to listen to your whataboutism, literally the guy in the “and yet you participate in society” meme.

lemmy.ml is part of Lemmy development as it is used to test new versions before release, take performance measurements and have first-hand experience with the mod tools.

Then you really shouldn’t be surprised that people don’t want to donate when part of that support goes toward an instance that openly and aggressively supports authoritarian regimes, human rights violations, and genocide denial, and brutally censors any dissenting viewpoints.

If I stepped away from lemmy.ml it would make Lemmy worse and cause more problems for other instance admins.

The other option, of course, would be to run lemmy.ml in a way that doesn’t actively piss off the majority of Lemmy users, but that doesn’t seem to be a path you’re willing to consider.

Honestly I’m genuinely torn about the situation. I’ve found such a great place here (outside of the tankie triad, of course), that as much as I disagree with your politics I’d probably donate anyway because of how great Lemmy is as a platform, if only you developed behind the scenes and weren’t personally responsible for one of the worst places on said platform. As it is, as long as both a) lemmy.ml continues to be run the way it is and b) you continue to have an active part in that instance’s abhorrent behavior, I can’t in good conscience give you any financial support.

Most of Lemmy is fine - just avoid the tankie triad of lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, and hexbear and you should be good to go.

No u.

Oh wait, you can’t, because even Reddit was smart enough to ban your asses half a decade ago.

It’s not just the server costs - it also compensates the devs for all of the valuable time they spend censoring people on .ml too!

Hexbears gonna hexbear.

The Golden Path!

Horizon: Zero Dawn. Such a haunting, beautiful story.