Lvxferre [he/him] @ lvxferre @mander.xyz

The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at nigh

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I didn't include Ч because it's easy to sub it with 4, Volapuk style.

Mine is simply orthographical. Some are informally transcribing it to the nearest English equivalent, but pronunciations are different, there are different ways to transcribe it, and even the original spelling is influencing it a bit:

• "Uh-Gah Teh Emm-y-El" implies the first /a/ from "agá" (H) got reduced to [ɐ], the last vowel in "ele" is being elided, and the /e/ in "eme" (M) is being lowered to [ɛ]. I bet the -y- is to represent [ɨ], English lacks the sound so it gets tricky to represent it.
• "Agga Teh Emi Eli" implies the ending /e/'s are actually /i/'s. There's some orthographic interference though - the "e" in "eme" (M) is typically [e] for those folks, but the one in "ele" (L) is [ɛ] instead.

Do you have some good examples of that? The more, the merrier - it might help people to get ideas.

I'll repeat a few things I've been saying about this. To keep it short: less verbose:

What people call "toxicity" online relies heavily on irrationality, from the aggressor and/or the target. And politics raises the stakes of everything, so irrationality + political engagement is specially prone to generate catty behaviour, name calling, uncalled combativeness, and all that crap.

Now look at social media. You'll see irrationals infesting every platform. Reddit in special encourages it, and most lemmings are from Reddit.

Why this matters: because I believe people here are focusing too much on .ml and Hexbear, without noticing the problem would still persist without them.

Ah, that's OK.

As I mentioned in another comment, I'm aware this is not the "only" way to do things. It's more like a starting point - 5x3 letters look decent enough, they're easy to distinguish, and even for the same size you can twist things up a bit (like adding a few pixels to ⟨A⟩, or making the ⟨8⟩ only seven pixels in total).

For example if you have less space you could make most letters 2x3 or 3x2, but it'll look messy.

If you don't mind having a few six pixels tall letters:

Ш (for reference), Щ, Ц (same problem as Щ), and У (it's weird to use Y in its place, but I kind of forgot to add it).

Of course, this will depend on space, plus personal style. I'm not claiming this is the only way to do things, it's just a viable "font" for people struggling with text in the canvas to use as starting point.

(I actually use a similar strategy with diacritics in the Latin alphabet. Specially ⟨Ç⟩.)

Counter argument

What argument are you exactly trying to "counter"?

A blåhajar?

Aga Te Eme Eli [Brazilian Portuguese]

"Agá Tê Eme Ele". The last letter is "e", and the diacritics are kind of a big deal.

Note the spelling is the same in the European standard, so that "Brazilian" can be safely removed.

The thing with campism is, that it's a trap: you're walking through a path you need to, doing steps towards what you believe to be the right direction, then you step on the trap. And when you notice "fuck, I'm trapped!", it's already too late - you're inside.

For some Marxists, I think it's multiple levels of mistaking the means for the end, and making the means the new end:

1 We need freedom, peace and human dignity...
\ 2 so we need the fruits or our labour...
\ 3 so we need a stateless society...
\ 4 so we need a transitory state to reach communism...
\ 5 so we need to defend that transitory state, as well as associated ideologies...
\ 6a so we need to fight against NATO...
\ 7a so we need to ally ourselves to NATO's enemies...
\ 8a so we need to defend our allies against threats...
\ 9a so we need to shield our allies against criticism.\

Each of that steps, when taken in isolation, is rational. However if you follow all of them, you end in campism - defending things like Czar Putler's Russia and its invasion of Ukraine, even if Putin himself is shitting on human dignity, freedom and peace (and that's literally our goal!). I see things like this all the time while lurking in Hexbear, and specially from Hexbear members outside their instance. Some might say "no, I'm just doing critical support!", but, well... we know it's already way past critical support.

Interesting to note the same ones doing this sort of campism see no problem with something like this:

5 (same as above) so we need to defend that transitory state, as well as associated ideologies...
\ 6b so we need to remain united...
\ 7b. so we need to denounce any group breaking off the unity.

That's the part they start shitting on you anarchists, or us Trotskyists.

A divide like this happened among anarchists in the first world war too.

The ghost of that second international will still haunt us for a long time...

Although (even here I cannot allow myself to rush to judgement in order to say that!? 😜) perhaps that is an oversimplification since we all can fall prey to biases in our thinking at some point along our chain of thinking. It is just that some people actually seem to care about that while others not so much; read that as in: not at all.

Exactly. Some details will be always missing; but a good person is supposed at least looks for them, instead of actively trying to shove them under the rug so they reach some dichotomic "us vs. them" view of the world.

[.ml vs. .world admin teams]

I do agree .ml is way worse when it comes to transparency; for example, they see no problem on labelling criticism against the Russian government as "bigotry". It's still far from ideal in .world's case; for example, when the topic is Palestine.

And people might say "well, those are local mods, not the admin team", but IMO the admin team should be partially responsible for what mods do.

As for leftist, I no longer feel comfortable discussing [...]

No worries - I get it. I didn't tell you my whole political instance either, for the same reason - if I were to say everything I think about politics in Lemmy, I'd get the federal cops giving me a visit.

I'd say the first one is lefter than the second, but you can still go further left: instead of having commensurate accountability for powerful people, have no powerful people at all.

Yup, and I do think the community's existence is a godsend. The problem is not that comm, it's me, you know?

Even without English doing something similar, as the video mentions, this is a lot like Indo-European languages insistently marking subject attributes in the verb:

• person - "I go" vs. "he goes" (English)
• number - "parla" vs. "parlano" (Italian; he says vs. they say)
• gender - "mówił" vs. "mówiła" (Polish; he spoke vs. she spoke)

Like, it looks like the inverse phenomenon, but it's actually the same thing - you're plopping info from one part of speech into another, because they're supposed to go together anyway.

Remember that Alt Right Playbook video about the Ship of Theseus? That's the sort of oversimplification you see both in witch hunts and in purity testing: A is almost identical to B, B to C, [...], X to Y, Y to Z, so people oversimplify it as "A is equal to Z". So if A is bad, Z is equally bad: not worse, not better, there's only "bad" and "good".

And as the video shows, it's in almost every social media platform. Plus in Reddit; I think people simply brought this into a more politicised platform, but it's the same irrationality. It is a Reddit (and Twitter, Tumblr, FB, and now Lemmy) problem.

Then you get the .ml admin team nurturing a politicised platform; that's great but it never nurtured the rationality necessary to employ that politicisation well. Perhaps on purpose, or perhaps because they didn't notice the need, dunno.

So, they let that Reddit problem in, and much like an invasive species, it's hard to get rid of it after some time goes by. And I do blame the .ml admin team for the situation, like you do, but for a different reason.

Additionally, I also blame the .world admin team; unlike the .ml it chased growth instead of politicisation, but still no rationality.

note I'm assigning the blame to the entities. It's messier to blame the individuals, as we never know their full history. Plus humans gotta be flawed.

Thankfully Rimu seems to be well aware of the problem, based on the sidebar of PieFed's main instance.

one point: I know you are a leftist, and at one point I thought I was too, but compared to the likes of hexbear and lemmygrad.ml and even lemmy.ml we are flaming right-wingers, I believe? if you [checks notes] “have a bank account”, then you aren’t leftist enough for them

I'm not sure, but I think they consider me worse than a right-winger: in their minds I'm probably a weird mix of Trotskyist with anarchist, two groups they dislike because neither plays well with their "left unity" campist trap. If that's correct it's hilarious, because it's pretty much accurate!

For a lot of the game, I was shaving the German flag's sides, top and bottom. My goal was to leave the text alone (it's cool), but with the LGBTQ+ flag as a background. After all, once the Australian flag went MIA, the largest country flag in the canvas was the German one.

However, since I was doing it by myself and plenty users were reverting my "creative deflation" of the German flag, we quickly reached a standstill.

So I thought on the best way to make at least some vandalism last forever, for a final act of defiance against my Schweinekatze Siegfrieda waking me up 3AM out of nowhere country flags. The solution was to place them in the last seconds of the canvas, somewhere it would be easy for me to plop them all together, but you had to change colours to undo it. Somewhere close to each other for visibility. The net result was a wiggling line between the red and yellow.

...I RANKED 10TH? Holy fuck I really needed to touch some grass!

And damn, those pixel maps are great.

Good ol' Revkas. No, wait, PEBKAC.

"I'm doing the no poop challenge until Luigi is free!"

Jokes aside... it depends on how you define left/right. Political behaviour and ideology aren't just a simple axis, not even two; they're multidimensional. And, for me, if I'm forced to analyse it 1D, it's all about how you distribute power: the left wants to spread it as much as reasonably possible, the right wants to concentrate it.

So, for me, the most left-wing thing someone could say is simply "nobody should have more power over another than the other has over them". Or something like this. Note how this encompasses rather well both anarchism and Marxism.

I'm glad I managed to do some change! ...beyond, you know, pissing feddit.org off with my wiggly green line 🤣

(It'll haunt their dreams until Canvas 2026.)