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I'd be willing to give it a try. They can be frustrating at times, but to me it's not really worse than with liberal instances. I'd understand if the community here doesn't want to put up with them though.

I haven't checked it out in a couple years, but I remember there being several decent communities over there. But their more authoritarian communities are pretty shitty.

I really don't like the idea of citing this study. It's always this same one from the 90s, and if it were acurate I expect the results would have been reproduced more. It's also not clear that the results indicate what the paper says. There's other reasons than sexual arousal that could explain the results. It could be they're imagining the scenario and are axious or disgusted by it. There's this paper that indicates homophobia is usually caused by fear or hate.

I don't like the idea of putting the blame for homophobia on closeted queer people. It's seems extremely likely to me that most homophobic people are straight, since most people are straight. Also we should respect other people's own identification instead of trying to force labels on people, even if they're bigots.

It doesn't have traffic data, which is probably the biggest disadvantage. The maps are user contributed, so the quality varies widely. Depending on where you are, it'll be ridiculously detailed with individual bushes in a park, or it's incorrect or outdated and you can't find your destination. I usually use this or OSMand, but I still keep google maps on another profile as a backup.

I don't have a good enough grasp on the topic to fully vouch for the site, but I've found pluralpedia.org really useful and interesting.

At least in the case I remember it wasn't a bot network. They would just put them on popular playlists so it'd end up with tons of listens. They were basically fake bands created as a way to get around paying licensing fees. If there's no real band there's no royalties to pay.

I haven't used it but there's ProxiTok.

That's at a very different level. With dot social it's about a quarter of the active users on the fediverse, whereas bluesky is probably something like 95% centralized in practice. It seems to keep improving, but right now it's basically impossible to use without mostly interacting with bsky.

I started watching a playlist on how to design a puppet from scratch. I find puppets facinating but never looked into how they're built.

It looks like there's !bonecollecting@lemmy.world that you could try.

Usually comms is short for communications, but I think it's fine in context.

They're still considering starting them back up again after pride month.

The big one is W11 now requires a TPM chip, so tons of computers will stop getting updates soon, with no way to upgrade.

And they keep getting worse with a bunch of annoyances, like more ads, trying to force ai, making it harder to avoid a microsoft account, and getting rid of ways to customize the desktop layout.