“We protect your children”

Sometimes they even decorate them!

Fourteen wording pieces of shit.

I can’t understand why such provocative symbols are used, everyone understands everything, and anyway it is a symbol of the marginalized

Lemmy does not display microblogs, which is what Threads is.

The only way we’d see content from Threads here is if someone on Threads somehow stumbles over content from here (for example if it’s boosted by a Mastodon user they follow), and leaves a comment.

That, or if Threads users tag a community, in the same way Mastodon uses can do.

Basically it expands the theoretical reach of the comment section, but in practice it’s unlikely to have a huge effect.

Since we’re on a decentralized service, you won’t see every post of a user unless you go to their profile on their instance. You’re responding to a Mastodon user, so most of her posts will be invisible to you because Lemmy does not support microblogging. It’s a bit of a confusing quirk on the Fediverse - you always have to visit people’s own instance in order to see their full profile.

A quick look on Mastodon discloses that she’s been posting punk and anti-fascist content for years. :)

“HUDUDIDOO DE DAA DE DOO! HODEE DEE HOO!!!”

“Oh, yes, the beautiful song of the sirens”

Did you subscribe to it? Updates from communities are only received if at least one user is a subscribed to them, so you could probably fix this by subscribing. :)

Edit: So yeah, what e0qdk said!

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It could mean your mbin instance has been defederated from the Lemmy instance the community is hosted on, or that the community is hosted on an instance that has gone offline. For some reason or another, Mbin used to federate with the community, but it doesn’t any more.

It could be usful to know which Mbin instance you’re on, and which communities appear broken.

Also, welcome back! :)

It seems you have accidentally found some meaning in your work, something your old self apparently couldn’t imagine. Meaning is incredibly important - life is too short to sit around doing as little as possible in order to make money. Humans need meaning, and you’re still human even while at work.

So you’re not being stupid at all.

Where it becomes tricky is if you are offered positions with less meaning but more money/career opportunities. It’s important not to be run over; meaning and wages needs to be balanced. But it seems the wages are the same here, and neither option is a health risk, so I would pick what’s meaningful for you.

Wouldn’t the right wing of the Democratic party be pretty standard Tory?

I think the different interpretation of “standing out like a freak” part is more generational. He’s not saying people with gender dysphoria are freaks—standing out like a freak is the feeling you have you feel completely out of place and uncomfortable. Like if you’re wearing yellow socks to a funeral. Nobody comments on it and you’re not sure anyone even sees them, but you feel like you’re standing out like a freak because you’re constantly thinking about it and feeling out of place and as if you don’t belong.

That’s awesome.

As for therapy before surgery, I think this is not a bad suggestion. An unbiased and professional therapist would not try to change who you are, but to see if you can learn to be happy with who you are.

Personally I’m a big fan of breaking down gender norms, and for people to say a big “fuck that” to all the expectations that comes with a specific gender. I know being trans is different, but I can’t help but suspect that in some occasions (not all) feeling like not belonging to a given sex is contingent upon not so much the body itself, but the stupid-ass expectations we place upon a given gender as a society. Breaking down these norms is hard and important work in its own right, and something one could explore with a (serious) therapist before taking it to a surgeon. If it works, you can embrace fully who you are without an intrusive and expensive procedure. If it doesn’t, surgery is still an option. So in my (possibly ignorant) mind, suggesting therapy alone first is not a bad thing, though it can sound like it.

Most importantly, it seems he loves you and supports you unconditionally, and he has made a real solid (and successful) effort to understand as well. So whatever you do, it seems he’ll be there for you even if it requires effort from his side. You have a good father.

For me personally this is the selling point, as I can fund their (open source) work rather than sending money to some company that does not contribute to open source. And since everything they offer is based on FOSS, migrating to another provider is easier than for closed source competition.

That said, I get your point. It is a corporation, and it is putting several eggs on one basket.

If you are going to spend time and money migrating to another service, choosing one that seems to be headed in the wrong direction seems ill-adviced.

European-alternatives.eu seems like a good resource to find alternative services.

Personally I am waiting to see if Murena.com restores their nextcloud offering, as I am planning to move to /e/OS on my phone again and wouldn’t mind sending a little money their way. I’m not into hypersecurity though, if you have very particular needs others will have better insights. For me having it hosted in the EU is good enough.

It seems to me Blahaj is a particularly good instance for these things - it’s a moderation priority bordering on a raison d’être over there.

I saw that Trump and Musk are muted when not signed in, but for obvious reasons I haven’t done onboarding for a while. Neat stuff.

I’ll just add that setting up custom filters is also easy as pie.

No worries! And don’t let the negativity in this thread get to you - it’s nothing personal, people are just convinced you’re not real. If anything, I guess that’s a weird compliment of sorts. The best one could hope for coming from the internet, perhaps.

Over on Reddit, people posting pictures of some good looking person and asking “am I ugly” is a pretty common way of farming karma. Whatever the fuck karma is, that’s beyond the point here.

Reverse image search is a way to find where pictures have been posted before using Google. Here’s the search for your image. It appears Google and Reddit has gotten bad to the point where they say your picture was posted 7 years ago, even though this would appear to be false.

Combine the two, and there’s a perfect storm where people assume you’re some 50 year old guy with a weird kink. Sorry about that.

…but when you click those links in google reverse image search, they show completely different people. Except the one posted an hour ago. I have no idea what is going on here, just seems weird to me.

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