Ada @lemmy.blahaj.zone Admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone
I can also be found on the microblog fediverse at @[email protected] or on matrix at @ada:chat.blahaj.zone
Anything that requires end users to react to trolls in a reactive way and in a troll by troll basis, and only after the troll has dropped their payload is going to take its toll on vulnerable folk.
Big popular blocklists that people subscribe to aren't always the answer, because they also have a history of incidentally impacting marginalised groups, even when they're trying to protect them.
Instances that welcome that part of Twitter are mostly defederated.
Bluesky just got major investment from a crypto bro...
It's not flukey...
CachyOS. I use it because I am a fan of Arch based systems, rolling releases etc, but CachyOS is optimised for my generation of hardware, and has lots of good default configurations for various apps. They have a customised proton version, a good default fish profile etc.
tl;dr It's Arch, but optimised, and slightly more pre-configured out of the box.
Because it pretends to be different to the centralised corporate social media platforms, whilst giving the cohesive experience of a centralised platform
None of them really fit me. Do I need to hand in my transfem card? :P
Think of it like email.
You have an email account with yahoo. That allows you to send and receive emails from gmail users, but it doesn't let you login to gmail with your yahoo account.
There are projects around to try and change that, so you can login to one instance using your account on another instance, but at this point in time, it's basically not a thing that can be done by most fediverse software.
Thanks. This is one of the reasons we generally don't upgrade immediately :)
You think a trans person getting death threats wouldn’t love to be able to identify as their AGAB?
No... That person wouldn't be me, they'd be someone else...
It's a federated protocol, but the network itself isn't meaningfully federated, and is basically just Bluesky (the company) infrastructure. Hopefully that changes, because until then, it's still a centralised social media platform, despite the underlying technology
Maybe I've just played too much Shadowrun with too many Australians, but lots of them ended up speaking like that, even when they weren't meant to be Australian! :)
That looks like it was designed to fail.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that your goal should be pragmatic blending in. What I'm saying is that when you say your goal is to pass, there's probably more to it than that. You want to pass for some specific reason.
And it's worth identifying what that reason is. If it's pragmatic, then that's what you need to be measuring. And if it's not pragmatic, if it's about the way you see yourself, or your own sense of validity, then wanting to pass is the symptom, not the real issue.
A poster in that community posted a link to stonetoss (a vocal transphobic nazi artist). The post was removed by an automod, only to be manually restored. The person who posted it (the only mod of the community) hasn't deleted it. It's still visible on the home instance today.
For that reason, the community and the person who posted the nazi artist have been removed from blahaj, because if they won't moderate nazi content, it means I have to double check every submission to that community.
If the sole moderator of a community was banned from an instance, does that make the community unavailable to the instance they were banned from?
No.
No, it doesn't make the group inaccessible by other users, however, if the content posted by the banned user is also removed, it means that a lot of the group content also goes away if that user was active.
In this case, I also banned the group itself, because a group that won't moderate against nazis is a group that I have to moderate to ensure nazi content doesn't slip through.
But if it’s a one-off then I understand that you might not have the context to know that this guy is an asshole.
If you have any evidence of Lawrence acknowledging that stonetoss is a nazi and making it clear it won't be posted again, I'm happy to restore that user.
If they just stayed silent on the whole topic, and didn't acknowledge, I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt.
Question for the mods: Is it possible to open a proper investigation to see if we can restore access to [email protected]? I love comics, it’s kind of a bummer that I can’t look at content (or even find) the largest comic community on Lemmy
If you can show me that something has happened to ensure that stonetoss won't appear in that community again I'm happy to restore it, but as it stands, the stonetoss comic that started this is still visible in that community on lemmy.world. Lawrence (the only mod of the community) hasn't removed it.
Pied Stilts (Himantopus leucocephalus) - Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Brisbane, Australia - October 2024
I rode the new bike out off road, through grass tussocks and all sorts of bumps to get this viewpoint!
Image description: A pied stilt standing on the edge of water in a marsh/wetlands area. The bird is leaning forward and down, with its head and beak pointed towards the ground and its wings slightly aflutter
#bird #birds #AustralianBirds #wetlands
Pied Stilts (Himantopus leucocephalus) - Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Brisbane, Australia - October 2024
Image description: 4 Pied stilts wading in shallow wetlands in the Golden Hour
A daring show of acrobatics!
New camera in hand, we made a deal with some local gulls. We provide the chips if they pose for us so I can get some photos!
And didn't they oblige!
This fine gull is a Silver Gull (not a Herring Gull) from Australia, and you'll be pleased to know, the chip was caught!
Nicolás Mihanovich
Nicolás Mihanovich, an abandoned cruise ship sits moored on the bank of Rio Iguazú, Puerto Iguazú, Argentina, at the apex of the borders between Argentina, Paraguay and Brasil.
It was originally designed as a luxury ferry between Argentina and Uruguay, but plans were made to turn it in to a floating Casino. The plans stalled, and now the ship sits, largely abandoned
Image description: An abandoned cruise ship sits moored on the bank of Rio Iguazú. The riverbank is steep, and covered with greenery. The ship itself is 6 stories in height and white in colour, but discoloured by water stains and rust
Great Egret (Ardea alba) - Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Brisbane, Australia - September 2024
Image description: A great egret, neck extended high in to the air, wading through wetlands
#bird #egret #heron #birds #australianbirds #kedronBrook #wetlands
Meanjin
Image description: A long exposure of the Brisbane River of an evening, just before Riverfire. The photo is taken from near the base of the Kangaroo Point side of the Captain Cook bridge, showing the curve of the river, with Brisbane City on the left bank, and the Kangaroo Point cliffs visible on the right bank.
Meanjin
Image description: A long exposure of the Brisbane River of an evening, just before Riverfire. The photo is taken from near the base of the Kangaroo Point side of the Captain Cook bridge, showing the curve of the river, with Brisbane City on the left bank, and the Kangaroo Point cliffs visible on the right bank.
Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) - Brisbane Airport, Australia - August 2024
Image description: A kookaburra sitting on a street light, with a clear blue sky behind. A jet fills most of the frame in the sky behind the bird
Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) - Brisbane Airport, Australia - August 2024
Image description: A kookaburra sitting on a street light, with a clear blue sky behind. A jet fills most of the frame in the sky behind the bird
Toombul is almost gone. This is all that's left
Image description: The main entrance of Toombul, looking through to a gutted interior. The area to the right of the main entrance, that used to be the bulk of the shopping center is now just open terrain, with several pieces of construction machinery gathering rubble and scrap
Images are working again!
Kaity has been working away for hours, and had to recompile ImageMagick from scratch to get things work, but now, they're working!
As a bonus, you should be able to upload a wider variety of image formats now.
And as an extra bonus, here is a photo of a random Australian Water Dragon we encountered last weekend!
Australasian Darter (Anhinga novaehollandiae) - Brisbane City Botanic Gardens, Queensland, Australia - August 2024
Image description: An Australasian Darter standing on a sandy riverbank, wings outstretched to dry in the sun, water lapping at its feet
Silver Gull (Larus novaehollandiae) - South Bank, Brisbane, Australia - August 2024
Image description: Headshot of a silver gull, with a bright orange red beak. The gulls head is tilted to the left as it looks towards, but slightly to the right of the photographer taking the photo.