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Do you have some good examples of that? The more, the merrier - it might help people to get ideas.

I'll repeat a few things I've been saying about this. To keep it ~~short:~~ less verbose:

What people call "toxicity" online relies heavily on irrationality, from the aggressor and/or the target. And politics raises the stakes of everything, so irrationality + political engagement is specially prone to generate catty behaviour, name calling, uncalled combativeness, and all that crap.

Now look at social media. You'll see irrationals infesting every platform. Reddit in special encourages it, and most lemmings are from Reddit.

Why this matters: because I believe people here are focusing too much on .ml and Hexbear, without noticing the problem would still persist without them.

Ah, that's OK.

As I mentioned in another comment, I'm aware this is not the "only" way to do things. It's more like a starting point - 5x3 letters look decent enough, they're easy to distinguish, and even for the same size you can twist things up a bit (like adding a few pixels to ⟨A⟩, or making the ⟨8⟩ only seven pixels in total).

For example if you have less space you could make most letters 2x3 or 3x2, but it'll look messy.

If you don't mind having a few six pixels tall letters:

Ш (for reference), Щ, Ц (same problem as Щ), and У (it's weird to use Y in its place, but I kind of forgot to add it).

Of course, this will depend on space, plus personal style. I'm not claiming this is the only way to do things, it's just a viable "font" for people struggling with text in the canvas to use as starting point.

(I actually use a similar strategy with diacritics in the Latin alphabet. Specially ⟨Ç⟩.)

Counter argument

What argument are you exactly trying to "counter"?

A blåhajar?

Aga Te Eme Eli [Brazilian Portuguese]

"Agá Tê Eme Ele". The last letter is "e", and the diacritics are kind of a big deal.

Note the spelling is the same in the European standard, so that "Brazilian" can be safely removed.

Although (even here I cannot allow myself to rush to judgement in order to say that!? 😜) perhaps that is an oversimplification since we all can fall prey to biases in our thinking at some point along our chain of thinking. It is just that some people actually seem to care about that while others not so much; read that as in: not at all.

Exactly. Some details will be always missing; but a good person is supposed at least looks for them, instead of actively trying to shove them under the rug so they reach some dichotomic "us vs. them" view of the world.

[.ml vs. .world admin teams]

I do agree .ml is way worse when it comes to transparency; for example, they see no problem on labelling criticism against the Russian government as "bigotry". It's still far from ideal in .world's case; for example, when the topic is Palestine.

And people might say "well, those are local mods, not the admin team", but IMO the admin team should be partially responsible for what mods do.

As for leftist, I no longer feel comfortable discussing [...]

No worries - I get it. I didn't tell you my whole political instance either, for the same reason - if I were to say everything I think about politics in Lemmy, I'd get the federal cops giving me a visit.

I'd say the first one is lefter than the second, but you can still go further left: instead of having commensurate accountability for powerful people, have no powerful people at all.

Yup, and I do think the community's existence is a godsend. The problem is not that comm, it's me, you know?

Remember that Alt Right Playbook video about the Ship of Theseus? That's the sort of oversimplification you see both in witch hunts and in purity testing: A is almost identical to B, B to C, [...], X to Y, Y to Z, so people oversimplify it as "A is equal to Z". So if A is bad, Z is equally bad: not worse, not better, there's only "bad" and "good".

And as the video shows, it's in almost every social media platform. Plus in Reddit; I think people simply brought this into a more politicised platform, but it's the same irrationality. It is a Reddit (and Twitter, Tumblr, FB, and now Lemmy) problem.

Then you get the .ml admin team* nurturing a politicised platform; that's great but it* never nurtured the rationality necessary to employ that politicisation well. Perhaps on purpose, or perhaps because they didn't notice the need, dunno.

So, they let that Reddit problem in, and much like an invasive species, it's hard to get rid of it after some time goes by. And I do blame the .ml admin team for the situation, like you do, but for a different reason.

Additionally, I also blame the .world admin team*; unlike the .ml it chased growth instead of politicisation, but still no rationality.

*note I'm assigning the blame to the entities. It's messier to blame the individuals, as we never know their full history. Plus humans gotta be flawed.

Thankfully Rimu seems to be well aware of the problem, based on the sidebar of PieFed's main instance.

one point: I know you are a leftist, and at one point I thought I was too, but compared to the likes of hexbear and lemmygrad.ml and even lemmy.ml we are flaming right-wingers, I believe? if you [checks notes] “have a bank account”, then you aren’t leftist enough for them

I'm not sure, but I think they consider me worse than a right-winger: in their minds I'm probably a weird mix of Trotskyist with anarchist, two groups they dislike because neither plays well with their "left unity" campist trap. If that's correct it's hilarious, because it's pretty much accurate!

For a lot of the game, I was shaving the German flag's sides, top and bottom. My goal was to leave the text alone (it's cool), but with the LGBTQ+ flag as a background. After all, once the Australian flag went MIA, the largest country flag in the canvas was the German one.

However, since I was doing it by myself and plenty users were reverting my "creative deflation" of the German flag, we quickly reached a standstill.

So I thought on the best way to make at least some vandalism last forever, for a final act of defiance against ~~my Schweinekatze Siegfrieda waking me up 3AM out of nowhere~~ country flags. The solution was to place them in the last seconds of the canvas, somewhere it would be easy for me to plop them all together, but you had to change colours to undo it. Somewhere close to each other for visibility. The net result was a wiggling line between the red and yellow.