I could fall asleep listening to him tell me all about why I should use the pre-wash function on the dishwasher.
Some of us live in the future. A future where every time I make popcorn my blueteeth speakers crackle so I can't hear my cryptobro podcast and go all in on bitcoin in 2018.
Guys, you just listen and wait until there's three seconds between pops, then it's done.
Anyone can make mordants and adjuncts, which are metallic salts.
A mordant is applied before the dye while an adjunct is applied after, and can drastically change the colour.
You just have to toss some raw steel wool into a jar of vinegar (I use cleaning vinegar because it's twice as strong as food-vinegar.) Or old copper bits (I use broken speaker wire I get for free from the second hand store.) If you suspend the copper over the vinegar in a jar and leave it in a warm place, it will develop verdigris which you can use as a pigment on its own.
Thanks for your input and perspective. Good to know other people feel the same way about the votes. And weird about my "Attitude," my profile shows 100% for me, I don't think I've downvotwd anyone yet. My ratio on my main account is like 100/1. I even upvote people who argue with me because I like the attention.
I've been on lemmy for about two years and my main account is on Lemmy.Today, which doesn't block any instance.
The maga trolls are rare but they are 100% right wing and incendiary. There's really only one user from .ml I find consistently... sucks. I see more people attacking folks for having .ml in their username than .ml's giving people shit. Most of them seem pretty socialist/democratic to me. The hexbears have their own vibe and I don't see many .grads outside of their instance, or maybe I just don't notice them.
It's kinda delightful being able to see all the hexbears in the comments like little mischievous ghosts bitching about the liberals.
Meanwhile on Grad is some highschool level call-out culture. The person who runs it is abusive, insulting, has made some pretty crazy comments about Isreal, and uses alts to manipulate votes.
But I agree there needs to be more transparent rules about the expectations for individual instances, that said, mods trying to curate a certain kind of vibe on an instance or in a community isn't out of the ordinary. On the one hand I think we need to protect minority opinions so Lemmy doesn't become a sad, monotonous gruel of opinions. On the other hand, spicy peppers are gross in a fruit cake.
I don't think a fun, optional instance on the fediverse, built on software that's open-source and customizable, with a transparent modlog, fits the definition of "authoritarian."
Awesome, thank you.
Heya. Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions, that helps a bunch.
With the pre-blocked instances, it was from this welcome message:
To help ease you into the Fediverse, we automatically block some of the “spicier” Fediverse instances. You are free to remove these yourself at any time, by going to your [user settings] -> Filters -> Instances (at the bottom) and unblocking those instances. Don’t say we didn’t warn you!
Which is reiterated on the broader piefed features page. I understand that's customizable, and I can unblock them on my user side, more wondering why those instances in particular are suggested for what looks like all users. As a socialist I find it off-putting. The question I guess I'm getting at is, is this place more maga friendly than socialist friendly?
I should have worded that better. I know where the modlog is but I don't see anything in it, even after searching. I was wondering if that was another time-delay thing.
Again, thank you. 24hrs is totally reasonable and I'll have to figure out how to hover since I use my phone.
Edit: Figured it out, Press and Hold.
There's still time to prank order a pizza to his haunted magical island.
I love this style. The animation on the ship and the way the text comes up is super fun.
Just wanna say I've been following Sandy across all my accounts. These genuinely bringe me joy, so thank you.
In an effort not to be disengenuous, this is the first time I've continued after I said I would disengage, because:
So, I will disengage after this and I recognize you may respond, and that's okay. I'm not trying to convince you of anything, at this point the debate is informative for anyone who may read it.
You're right, I straight up do not care that people think these instances, specifically are bad. My main griefs on this platform are the brigading against women, even in the communities specific for women's perspectives, and the lack of media pluralism, both of which are prevalent accross communities and instances. Women everywhere face discrimination, poorer healthcare, and violence, so my battles are in real life and closer to home. I seek to inform and correct misinformation while bolstering media pluralism on this platform, which is why I like having access to as many instances as possible.
I save my spoons for bolder activism, like writing my political reps, showing up at city hall, contributing to a sex positive women's zine, grant writing for outsider artists, running art workshops for adults with developmental challenges, and fundraising for Fairy Creek protesters, because a number of my friends were abused by The RCMP while being arrested for standing against the illegal logging of treaty protected land. That's another issue close to me, as Metis with a Mi'kmaq grandmother who had to give up her status to marry a white man.
I don't say this to shame you, or as a "gotcha," but to say there's more than one thing going on in the world. Everyone picks their battles, and everyone has battles.