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I received my invite code from Bluesky. Is anybody here on there?

Trying to make a community and every time I click submit, it just goes back to the top of the page to enter a name which I already did. Any help?

@admin@exploding-heads.com -- I think it would be a good idea to begin stylizing a lot of the major country communities with icons (I propose just using the 'flag' icon) and background images.

For instance, I just made the Niger community, and previously made the Panama, Greece, and Malaysia communities, all faithfully with a flag and background image of an iconic site or scenic picture from the country.

Yet, there are some major communities like this that I use frequently that do not have any such icons or background images, like:

India Italy China Japan Russia Ukraine

etc. etc.

My proposal is quite simple: just start throwing up icons & background images for these places yourself, Kapow or local moderators...

Or give me the authority to do so.

I am a high volume user and one of my main interests is in archiving and cataloguing news and major events, and so I can really tell you that I will commit zero site vandalism and only wish to have our site prettier and more enticing.

I also won't object in the least when I am removed from the mod position after adding flag/image to places.

... Let me also say: I am preapred to do this for all 50 states and other communities..!

Would also love to see others participate.

Here is another way we could do it:

Allow anyone to go to these communities and submit a thread called "Proposed Icon & Background" or "Proposed Icon," "Proposed Background" (putting them separately).... and then you can just work yuor way around to adjusting them.

Either way, I think it would be good for the site.

Seem So slow today. Everyone Ok?

For me, I'm bored and can't sleep

The tranny hackers will inevitability get access to the data of exploding heads one day, and when they get your IP and general location, how will that effect you?

I use Tor btw

Ok hear me out. Lots of people complaining about billionaires.

I get it. They have a lot of money. They don't always give it away unless it's to avoid taxes.

Just taking money from billionaires feels wrong

What if instead we took a random drawing and just sacrificed one per year?

So this way they would be incentivised to donate money. But if they wanted to risk it they could try.

Maybe our corn crops would grow better too.

At Christmas, I bought a few bottles of cider on special. Unfortunately, they tasted bad, the flavor was a bit sharp and had a bad aftertaste. We had to mix it with other beverages to make it palatable. It was the embarrassment of the holiday season.

In April, I saw we still had a bottle of the cider in the wine cabinet, so I put it in the fridge. It has been in there until this weekend. We opened the bottle preparing ourselves for punishment, however the cider was excellent! I am trying to figure out what happened! I don't know a lot about the process of making cider. Were the other bottles opened to early after production? Was this bottle a different batch? It is a mystery that will haunt me.

Rhonda and Deborah

Gavin

Hate to to join the "I'm confused about the fediverse I'm certified retarded " club

Jk

But man! This is so annoying! Anyone else experienced this?

Im listening....

Hi folks, does anyone know of other Lemmy instances which allow questioning the orthodoxy of Both Sides™ subject to basic ground rules of civility / good-faith discussion / non edgelording, which don't have a ton of instances blocking them (being blocked by the most hyper "woke" instances is fine)??

This instance is fine and I have no issues with it BTW, I'm just trying to see if there are any other instances run from what I'd call a "classical liberal" free speech perspective, where having unpopular or bad opinions is allowed as long as one is not being a dickhead about it. And if so, if those instances are also blocked by a ton of others, or just by the few I'd definitely expect.

To get a little more specific, since a number of big Lemmy instances seem to follow American "progressive" orthodoxy lock stock & barrel, what I am looking to find is instances where a user (or a community!) won't get immediately shitcanned for:

• not being 100% on board with race & racial oppression being the root of all ills in society
• not being 100% on board with Drag Queen Story Time
• not being 100% on board with abolition of borders
• not being 100% on board with letting violent criminals roam free because equity
• and so on

It's fine if the instance is left-aligned / leftish, as long as actual discussion is not censored due to DEI buzzword concepts.