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And was a pre-condition to not invade Ukraine.
What an absurd statement. Is invading Ukraine some kind of slippery slope that requires constant effort or else we'll just wildly slide wildly down it? No one forced Russia's hand here but their madman despot.
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Yeah I don't think the client apps have been updated for API changes in 0.19.0 yet. Bleh.
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We are already! Unless we've specifically unfederated from someone, you can get their content. You can see who's blocked by clicking "instances" in the lower right and then checking the blocked tab.
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It's a fine username, they're simply using the most uncharitable reading possible of it (that you exclusively like fat enbies and such a stance is equivalent to being a fat enby chaser which is equivalent to transphobia) to perform character assassination. As most of Hexbear's content, it's breathless, derogatory, inflammatory, and unrelated to most people's reality.
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Actually it seems pretty unstable. Working on that.
In an effort to get Federation working better and get better performance out of our Fly containers, I upgraded lib.lgbt to 0.19.0-rc.3. Apologies for the unannounced downtime. So far it does seem to be running better... I am sometimes getting connection errors when I refresh though, will keep an eye on those.
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Yeah every time I ask people what non-D&D systems they play I get a rude wake-up call.
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If we didn’t evolve to have gay sex why are gays so good at sex? QED.
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It seems like they want to see pics of fat enbies, which is not transphobic, nor is a username suggesting their desire to do so.
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They’ve never broken any rules I’ve seen so not really interested in anonymous (and probably Hexbear-driven) gossip. If you’re interested in unity why are you spreading divisiveness?
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It’s “whataboutism” in the sense we’re interrogating focus. Why do you think white ethnonationalists spend so much time asserting “white lives matter?” Because there’s only so much air in the room, and they know giving air to one cause deprives another.
I think it’s worth wondering why people spend so much time discussing Israel/Palestine and so little discussing other issues that are at least as large from a “people impacted” perspective. Obviously there’s also an African infantilization (that is to say, racist) double standard here — we simply don’t expect Africa to have human rights. But I would say there is certainly also an Israel double standard, and it is antisemitic in the same way saying “well of course Sierra Leone is a hellhole, there’s no news there” is racist.
You are not a news outlet. But you choose what you’re spending your time and effort on. And it is this. I think many people don’t interrogate why they get so involved and what their opinions actually mean in terms of what their focus accomplished and what it broadcasts.
I apologize for choosing you as the vehicle for this message; I don’t mean to attack you personally. There are a ton of people doing this and your message was as good as any other to demonstrate my point.
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Higher expectations is reasonable! Would you say two times higher? Ten times higher? A hundred times higher?
As a baseline, how much have you posted about Sierra Leone and the human rights abuses there in the last year?
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Your second point is entirely correct; see also self-hating gays in the Log Cabin Republicans.
I think the shield for your first point is pretty narrow these days. About a decade ago that point held a lot more salience, but as my "new antisemitism" link discusses, the position has been adopted so vigorously by antisemites that I think it is indeed very close to antisemitic unless deployed extremely carefully.
Yes, criticism of Israel is not inherently antisemitic. But since this canard is so often invoked by idle and ignorant spectators, with no real understanding of Israeli or Palestinian politics, inserting themselves into a fraught and unhappy situation, usually specifically to criticize or delegitimize only Israel... it's tough to see how that isn't a special standard applied only to Israel. Or, worse, it's invoked by real antisemites hoping to get bystanders on-side with actual antisemitism by cloaking it as criticism of Israel.
As a concrete example of this new antisemitism -- in 2017, Hamas altered its charter, which was wildly and outright antisemitic, to specifically state that it doesn't actually want to kill all Jews as previously stated, but only the occupiers of Palestine. Given their actions, the huge amount of specifically anti-Jewish sentiment in Gaza, and even the incredibly virulent language in their old charter, do you think they actually changed their minds about Jews? Or are they simply cloaking their antisemitism in a package that more people might agree with these days? A new kind of antisemitism?
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How in the world did this person call anyone an antisemite? Are you responding to the right post?
Nothing they do will ever cause the international outrage any other country’s actions would cause.
Israel has 45.9% of all UNHRC condemnations ever passed, passed at it. Do you believe Israel is committing 45.9% of all human rights atrocities on Earth right now?
You are right Israel is measured by double standards, but it's not that its actions produce less outrage than other countries' -- they produce far more. This is new antisemitism.
It's not actually necessary to rake Israel over the coals more than other countries. Doing so is a double standard. Sierra Leone has roughly the population of Israel; If you aren't holding it to task for its human rights abuses as much as you are Israel, you are engaged in that double standard.
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Yeah they’re not really pro-LGBTQ. They just want to convince LGBTQ people they are so they drum up more support their insane tankie politics.
More importantly they’re also jerks though, so, easy defederation tbh
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I was reading about new antisemitism the other day and I thought it was interesting.
Most canny antisemites have turned to the old (and formerly totally fine) canard “criticizing Israel is not antisemitic” to shield their actual antisemitic criticism. Not wanting to call Hamas a terrorist organization is a perfect example. They’re only terrorizing Israel, which isn’t inherently antisemitic! /s
But yeah it’s really everywhere now. Sometimes it’s mask off as in this incident. But frequently it’s mask on.
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Whaaaa
Why would they think that’s a good idea!
Okay thanks for letting me know. I’ll defederate again tomorrow when I’m in front of a computer and not on my phone.
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Yeah I did — they banned the Donald community on it so felt it was probably reasonable. Let me know if you think otherwise, happy to reconsider.
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Lock her up!
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Antisemites of a feather flock together I guess.
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I mean, your argument is still basically that it's thinking inside there; everything I've said is germane to that point, including what GPT4 itself has said.
Similarly to [lemmy.ca](https://lib.lgbt/post/252837) and [lemmy.world](https://lib.lgbt/post/154107), we are also unfederated from hexbear.
It's been almost exactly two months since I started lib.lgbt so I thought it would be a good time to assess how people are liking the instance and Lemmy in general. So... How are people liking Lemmy so far? Any comments/concerns about lib.lgbt itself?
[Earlier](https://lib.lgbt/post/15416) I defederated us from sh.itjust.works. They seem like they haven't done anything problematic or concerning for a few months now though, and they have a tech community I wouldn't mind reading. Would people be interested in refederation?
The UI still shows being on 0.18.3 though I upgraded that as well, not sure why.
As other instances have done, we also are defederating from what appears to be a server taken over by alt-right and neo-Nazi content. Or an exploding-heads proxy. Or both.
Just thought people might want to know I upgraded this instance this morning!
The current frontend lib.lgbt used is lemmy-ui. However, there’s no particular reason we should stay on that one other than that it’s the official frontend. I saw a [cool list with screenies](https://blog.erlend.sh/lemmy-frontend-alternatives-are-popping-off) of other frontend possibilities and was wondering if we should switch to one. Does anyone have any preferences?
This instance does not have custom emoji enabled, so lib.lgbt was not compromised by the hack that compromised lemmy.world and blahaj.zone. Nevertheless I updated us to 0.18.2-rc1 which has a patch for the vulnerability in question, just in case.
Currently downvotes are disabled here because I’m a big softie. But I have found myself missing them every now and again… Should we enable downvotes on this instance? Why or why not?
I upgraded the instance to Lemmy 0.18.1, turned on Captcha registration, and then turned on open registration. I'm also requiring verified emails, so hopefully we don't attract a lot of spammers... but I'm excited to see where the community goes from here.
I host a local meet up of queer STEM peeps (along with [@xeger@lib.lgbt](https://lib.lgbt/u/xeger)) and tonight’s event was a game night! Fairly casual stuff; Happy Salmon, Coup, and Cards Against Humanity. But a good queer time was had by all.
A number of users have made their way here from other instances; we welcome everyone, and I thought I would take the time to offer a clear vision as to what lib.lgbt is, why I created it, and what you can expect from participating in this community. ## What is lib dot lgbt about? We are primarily and firstly a space for queer people (and queer-adjacent people, including family and allies of all stripes). This means we are also inherently "political" in the sense that the existence of queer people is intrinsically political these days. While this reality kind of sucks, I didn't make the world this way; all we can do is live in it as best we can. To me, all political considerations other than queerness are secondary. As long as your political philosophy aligns with queer liberation, you are welcome here. The core tenet of all our users should be "everyone should be included and in every way possible." Let's take a practical example: the common troll debate topic of the inclusion of trans people in sports. Well, here, there's no debate. Everyone should be included in every way possible. Including trans people in a sporting league is, to us, as uncontroversial and proper as including Black people or Jewish people. Failure to adhere to this assumption, or questioning the legitimacy or stability of queer identities, or "just asking questions," or wanting to debate queer people in the free marketplace of ideas, or whining about how the existence of this instance (or its moderation) is curtailing your freedom of speech, will result in scorn, opprobrium, and banning -- not necessarily in that order. ## Why lib dot lgbt? I created this instance as I fled from reddit. I love supporting queer people and debating politics, and was hoping to replace that in my life. I initially applied to Beehaw and have nothing but love and respect for Beehaw and its mission. I wanted a space whose reason for existence was to serve and connect queer people of all flavors. Beehaw is not (and should not be) that. This place is that. ## Where is lib dot lgbt hosted? From a purely utilitarian standpoint, this instance is on a pretty solid hosting provider (fly.io) and I expect very little downtime. While this is obviously just a passion project for me, lib.lgbt is not hosted in my living room but in a highly available cloud datacenter; the costs for this number of users are very low and I am happy to foot them. You may depend on the reliability and stability of this instance and this community. ## Who do we federate with? We're not interested in federating with instances that allow debate on the question of queer identities. Thus, instances that willingly host content like The_Donald, anything TERF-related, and "free speech" bastions are prime candidates for disfederation. In the end, though, I'd love to hear from you all! What kind of community should this be? What communities should we make here? I hope you all feel welcome, and if there are any questions about any of the above, please don't hesitate to let me know.
We are currently using this blocklist for defederation in order to prevent spam and bad actors: https://github.com/sgrigson/oliphant Beehaw is defederated from sh.itjust.works, but we are not. However I learned today they host a The_Donald community so I was considering defederating us from them as well. Anyone have any opinions?
What might people be interested in seeing here? Some thoughts I have: 1. tabletop rpgs (though blahaj.zone seems to have a pretty good community on that, so maybe more of a focus on osr rpgs?) 2. contrapoints 3. jrpgs 4. something programming adjacent 5. something politics adjacent Community creation is also open if anyone has any great ideas and wants to actualize them without any further discussion.