Bozicus

I read a post by the Beehaw admins a couple weeks ago saying they were talking to the lemmy.world admin about resolving the issues that caused them to defederate, so it’s possible that they were no longer defederated when the post you found was made. My understanding is that automatic updates only happen when users on one instance are subscribed to the community on the other instance, so refederation might not be obvious. I expect they would have cut the cord again over yesterday’s security breach, though.

That’s pure speculation on my part, though, and quite possibly it was some kind of bug. But I am not particularly tech-savvy, so I tend to wonder about non-technical causes.

Wait, what? Target barely even had a Pride campaign this year. They started rolling it out early, then backpedaled so fast and so far that there was basically nothing in June. Certainly nothing that classified as “sexual” to a sane human being. Also, if they’re still claiming there was anything actually trans-body-friendly in children’s sizes, that is pure fiction. As a trans, queer person, I would give Target maybe a C- for LGBTQ+ - friendliness, and that’s giving them the benefit of the doubt. These scumbags are not only morally bankrupt, they’re barking up the wrong tree.

I wasn’t before, but I am now. (This is the first time I have seen it, since I prune my subscriptions like my life depends on it). I suppose it’s inevitable that an online space is going to have assholes, especially once it reaches a certain size, but it’s always disappointing when they show up.

Ugh, that doesn’t sound like a productive conversation for anyone. I’m sorry you had that experience.

To be (un?)fair, there are masculine insecurities that are delusional or unrelated to actual heterosexual relationships, but still difficult to deal with. Like, we might know that women don’t want certain things, but still feel that we ought to be/have those things. A lot of body image issues are irrational on multiple levels, and, in my experience, the irrational ideas are more difficult to deal with than the ones that connect to the real world. Or we might be looking for male partners, who often share and project these irrational expectations. There are queer men who do, in fact, prefer the Thor type to the Loki type. (And, of course, are not women, lol, so that in no way invalidates women’s perspectives, but it contributes to men holding onto that idea).

But saying women’s opinions on male body image problems are somehow incorrect because they don’t reinforce our insecurities, rational or otherwise? No. Just… no. Not when so many guys genuinely do worry about what women want, and welcome feedback from women. I am embarrassed on behalf of the men doing that, and disappointed that it happened.

Well, taking the most obviously affected instances down is a good start, anyway.

I'd give it at least a day or two to see how things shake out, unless it's really important to you to have that community up all the time.

I think that's a good sign. It probably means the problem is being dealt with by admins. Any communities on the affected instances that have subscribers on other instances will be backed up on those other instances, so most of the content is safe no matter what. I just hope the users on those instances know they can come to others in the meantime.

Regarding the new rule against abuse content, I suspect they're either trying to boost their wholesome image to advertisers, or it's in response to complaints about specific things on the site. I don't think they'd prohibit content unless someone is posting it, horrible as that sounds.

To put it in your terms: they're trying to drive away some creeps that might scare advertisers.

Regarding allowing AI porn... since advertisers don't like porn, these new policies should cancel each other out, lol. I suspect neither of these changes is directly related to any of the recent drama.

600% it is, then. Agreement is excellent.

Based.

Both of these would be absolutely glorious Mary Sue names, and I am tempted to write the fanfics for them.

PayPal still has my deadname, tbh. I just didn't care enough to send them all the documentation they wanted, given that it would have been enough to allow anyone on their staff to steal my identity if they wanted.