Do you think that they think every other creature has a fucked up looking face, or do they have no idea they look the way they do? Every other time they meet another sand boa are they like “Jesus Christ, what happened to him??”

TikTok being down less than a day.

Yeah, I’m not sure what it means either, which means I’m not sure how many red flags the earlier thread I linked should be setting off. A random mod on LW being respectability politics about neopronouns is meh, someone higher up the chain than that and it’s brake pumping time IMO.

Also like, presumably everyone else on LW thought they were allowed to moderate their communities how they saw fit before that announcement, you know? My understanding is the LW admins shelved the policy for retooling, not retirement, so personally it’s not something I would want to chance. I don’t think anyone is purposefully lying to you guys, but I also don’t think they’d make an exception just for 196 to do whatever it wants with any future instance rule changes.

I understand they’re not an admin. In the page I linked you can see they’ve been put in the “Community Team” section. Are you saying that “Community Team” is a convoluted title that the LW admins have chosen to say “person who mods /c/lemmyworld”? Or do they have some other role that I can’t find outlined anywhere? (Which could be on my end, the site I linked doesn’t play well with mobile)

I guess I’m not sure what a “Community Team” member does, then, if they have no control or input on how LW policies are carried out in communities. I can’t find an explanation anywhere here so maybe someone can point me in the right direction.

Did you know that people who keep isopods as pets have one variety called a dairy cow isopod that is spotted black and white like a cow?? Shit’s adorable

This is correct, but the original was 195. They closed it I think either because it got bigger than they intended or because they were graduating or something, so the successor community 196 was made.

Reposting this since you said you were going to answer questions in the !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com post but this one is still unanswered:

If the move had nothing to do with pronouns and you’ll continue to enforce rules about neopronouns, how do you feel about one of the LW community team mods making statements like this about them? Do you feel confident that they will always let you enforce neopronoun rules if they decide that it’s hurting LW?

I’m a trans man and nobody has ever hurt me by using neopronouns. The people who have harassed and assaulted me almost certainly feel the same way about people with neopronouns as they do about me. People who use neopronouns are my siblings, and if someone needs me to throw them under the bus to respect me or my pronouns then frankly they are also part of the problem.

Tl;dr, there’s a reason that people you can’t get on board with using she/her don’t set the standard for what a real pronoun is.

You and LW are allowed to do whatever you want, you just shouldn’t be surprised when making borderline transphobic statements and refusing to clarify reflects badly on the instance.

If someone uses it as one, yeah it is.

Your personal stance, being that you are a community team member of LW, has a lot to do with it. That’s who I’m asking, not you the person.

If the move had nothing to do with pronouns and you’ll continue to enforce rules about neopronouns, how do you feel about one of the LW community team mods making statements like this about them? Do you feel confident that they will always let you enforce neopronoun rules if they decide that it’s hurting LW?

For clarity are you suggesting that some pronouns shouldn’t be respected based on the judgement of the mods?

??? I regularly interact with Beehaw users. The most recent reply in my inbox is from a Beehaw user.

I think you’re mixing Beehaw up with Hexbear.

It is so, so very hard to feel like bringing back public whipping and the stocks is a bad idea when there are some people who deserve it so much.

As long as it’s completely legal for American companies to sell the data that’s allegedly so sensitive to anyone they please, the law does nothing except allow the president to target apps selectively. If it’s the propagandizing via the algorithm that’s such a huge concern, that’s still completely legal too.

Democrats shutting down TikTok over a do nothing bill is probably the stupidest shit they could have done with Biden’s last year in office.

It's really weird to act like Biden didn't want the ban and was some hapless third party to all this when before they even had the vote he was saying he'd sign it.

Bills don't get an automatic veto override if enough people vote yes, and an override doesn't make him sign it. He signed it because he wanted to, and in doing so he put the Democrat brand on it. He could have made them hold another vote to actually override his veto and make it clear that he didn't want this, he could have spoken out against it in any way before the bill was passed and on his desk, but he didn't, and now that it's wildly unpopular for some reason the entire DNC is just:

I wish I could have a bite of that through the screen! It looks exactly like the real thing.

On one hand, yeah, on the other hand Biden literally signed the law banning it. If Democrats didn't want Tik Tok being banned to be associated with them and to give Republicans an easy, obvious win by unbanning a wildly popular app, then they could have just... not done that. This was just completely an unforced error on the part of the Democrats.

Oh for sure, I just refuse to believe I’m living in a world where people put pizza in a blender for anything other than rage bait or dealing with a wired jaw and a pizza craving, haha.