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When we logged in today we found this.

We would like it removed if possible, thank you.

Alt text (since we got an overflow error the 'official' way):

A banner with a light blue background and a X at the top right to indicate the possibility to close it.

The text says: "Support Lemmy development. An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there in no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even do there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. The only available option are user donations. To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.

If you want more information before donating, consider the comparison with Reddit. It began as startup funded by rich investors. The site is managed by corporate executives who over time have become more and more disconnected from normal users. Their main goal is to make investors happy and to make a profit. This leads to user-hostile decisions like firing the employee responsible for AMAs, blocking third-party apps and more. As Reddit is a single website under a single authority, it means all users need to follow the same rules, including ridiculous ones like censoring the name "Luigi".

Lemmy represents a new type of social media which is the complete opposite of Reddit. It is split across many different websites, each with its own rules, and managed by normal people who actually care about the users. There is no company and no profit motive. Much of the work is carried out by volunteer admins, mods and posters, who contribute out of enthusiasm and not for money. For users this is great as there is no advertising nor tracking, and no chance of takeover by a billionaire. Additionally there are no builtin political or ideological restrictions. You can use the software for any purpose you like, add your own restrictions or scrutinize its inner workings. Lemmy truly belongs to everyone.

Nutomic and Dessalines, Lemmy Developers."

There is a slightly darker blue button under this text with the word Donate on it.

So earlier we were assigned mod for the community "queer defense front" on this instance.

The person didn't ask us to be mod or communicate with us at all, then promptly banned us for asking people kindly to not use ableist language.

The rules clearly said zero tolerance for hate, and ableism is hate to us. Plus it seems the person didn't ban those who were being hateful to us (at least not that we can see in the modlog), so double standards we guess?

If you want something specific you have to actually, you know, communicate.

We don't care about the ban (it's not a community we particularly care about), or whatever, just the sheer strangeness of it all and the fact that the person didn't apply the same rules to others as they did us.

We've blocked them and the community. But yeah, maybe don't assign people mods if you've never even asked them or communicated what you want? That's not a gift, that's a terrible responsibility you haven't given them any information or preparation for.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.eco.br/post/17753640

artist's bluesky source

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.eco.br/post/16254910

artist's bluesky source

Image description: A queer comic like image. Two femme people are kissing in the first frame, one with purple and red hair, the other with blonde hair, the background is yellow. Then in the next panel the blonde haired person is kissing the red and purple haired person on the neck gently, the red and purple haired person reacts by saying "Mommy" in a moment of ecstasy. The last panel cuts to the red and purple haired person laying back on the bed, looking wide eyed and a bit confused or embarrassed at the blonde person and the blonde person looking at the red and purple haired person with a huge blush on her face, also looking embarrassed.

In which Khadija Mbowe (they/them) goes into the anti-aging propaganda that's so prevalent in patriarchy, capitalism, and other such systems of control where it benefits those in power to create disharmony not only between each other, but also in ourselves.

A worthwhile and powerful watch.

Warning: talks about death, aging, capitalism etc.

We keep trying, filling in the form and using the code from the link place and it just keeps telling us that there's an error no matter what we do. Could someone or somemany please look into it? Thanks!

We were wondering, what gives you species euphoria? It can be either something that happened one time or it can be something that gives you euphoria time and time again.

We'll start: One time we did something nice for someone else and they gave one of us a shiny rock and their deadname.

It gave us so much species euphoria.

What about y'all?

So using lemmy via the main web ui is very slow to load, and then sometimes only loads a few elements recently.

Can this be fixed?

So a while ago we attempted to edit a fandom page but another editor kept reverting the change because some scientific magazine or something had claimed we don't exist.

Would any of y'all like to help us finding or by providing irrefutable (or at least scientific) evidence that we do exist so we can edit the page safely and if they complain provide links, books etc?

No worries if not, just we hate plural erasure and science that tries to 'prove' we don't exist when we clearly do.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/28783084

How trying to define ourselves or others define us by assigned sex at birth doesn't serve us and is generally oppressive and incorrect, both scientifically and socially.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/28783084

How trying to define ourselves or others define us by assigned sex at birth doesn't serve us and is generally oppressive and incorrect, both scientifically and socially.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/28783084

How trying to define ourselves or others define us by assigned sex at birth doesn't serve us and is generally oppressive and incorrect, both scientifically and socially.