Okay. I’ve just read like 50 comments from you in a couple different threads, I didn’t realize this all happened today.

Whatever bro. You’re not gonna bring them back. It hasn’t been swept under the rug. And they are hardly the first person to leave the fediverse.

Just gotta move on at this point, you can’t control other servers. They are going to do what they do, and you obviously disagree, as is your right, but at some point you need to accept it and look to the future. You’re not accomplishing anything by continually bitching about what happened in the past.

For the record, I don’t think you’re a transphobe or anything of the sort. I understand your frustration and agitation, but there’s really nothing more to say at this point, just let it go.

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Okay… first of all, opposition to the Israeli actions in Palestine is not equivalent to antisemitism. That’s just a fact.

People who are antisemitic are definitely going to take that position, but most people take that position for completely different reasons.

Secondly, the growth of the platform will inherently change the nature of the discourse. If we get tens of thousands more users over here, the conversation will change drastically. That’s why starting from a position that challenges the dominant mainstream discourse is an advantage for Lemmy, because that position is guaranteed to be diluted as we grow.

This is Lemmy. IRL Israel is doing whatever they want anyway. It seems apparent that the chilling effect doesn’t affect them whatsoever.

This isn’t a court of law, it’s simply practical advice about how to act on Lemmy so that the platform can grow and succeed. Sometimes you lose the battle but win the war.

I wasn’t aware of that, but that’s fine. The mods must be doing a good job because I never see reports from that community. I just want to make sure sh.it keeps working, and getting overtly political has a tendency to cause problems.

I’m trying dude. But I also don’t want SJW to be a server that has anything to do with politics, so there’s only so much I can do.

All I would say is that it’s much better to have leftist political extremists controlling the discourse rather than than alt right psychos. Ideally the discussion would be more diverse and open minded, but with the tiny userbase that’s not really an option yet.

Your best bet is to avoid discussing the Palestinian conflict entirely. Nothing that we say on Lemmy is going to change what happens IRL anyway.

Fyi it was the mod of that community who removed it, and they probably didn’t need to. However, that community is a fairly innocuous one so it’s understandable if they have a quick trigger on removing comments to keep the discussion light and enjoyable for everyone.

Again, I don’t think it needed to be removed, but you could have simply said

Inanimate objects don’t have genders or facial expressions either; so by using a magical thing called context clues they’re probably just continuing the OP’s joke.

And that’d almost certainly have been fine. But the final sentence adds nothing to your point and is probably what they assessed crossed the line.

By all means keep huffing your own farts if it makes you feel better though.

Something to think about.

I’m not even judging you or anything, you seem like a good user and I’ve done the same shit multiple times, even had several comments removed just within the past week when I let my emotions get the better of me.

Okay bud.

You might simmer down on constantly saying only you are trying and have social skills instead of just trying. That doesn’t come off as you intend it to.

I only said that once, and I realize it won’t really come off positively for the people I am referring to. Doesn’t mean it’s not true. Sometimes, truth hurts, and if even a handful of people re-examine their behavior and try to act better, it’ll be worth it.

Uhh guys, you’re kinda proving my point here. Lol. As they say, a hit dog will holler. I’m American, and the fact that people would accuse me of being a Russian troll is deliciously ironic to me 😂. For one thing, my command of the English language rules that out, which isn’t something I can say about many of you.

But I’m happy you called me out, because I’ve been meaning to ask you about something @ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works.

I only wish I had screenshotted earlier, but this is what happened a couple days ago when a new SJW user posted a meme to memes@lemmy.ml about having a rich friend and not feeling comfortable talking with them about their wealth or something like that. The meme was getting upvoted and seemed like good content. Then you fucking jumped down their throat, leading them to instantly delete their account. Somebody reported your comment, but the OP had already deleted their account by the time I saw the report.

What the fuck was that dude? This is why people don’t want to use Lemmy, because there are people like you who act like self-righteous assholes for absolutely no reason. I probably should have banned your ass just for that, but I am decidedly not a power tripping bastard, nor do I intend to become one, despite how tempting it can be when certain users spread misery everywhere they go without technically breaking any rules or crossing any lines.

For the record, I restored your removed comment. That was removed by another mod who I have never met or interacted with in my life. Presumably, he was just doing his job and removing it because it violated some rule about personal attacks or something, but I couldn’t care less, in fact I think it provides even more evidence of your toxic attitude.

And it happens to connect perfectly with the topic of this post, which is another example of circlejerking Europeans doing everything they can to ensure no American would ever want to use Lemmy by acting like morally superior douchebags.

My comment was a response to the OP, a fellow American, expressing frustration with the constant hatred and abuse towards Americans that exists on this platform, which has conveniently been omitted from this screenshot. His post originally read as follows, before he edited it.

Lemmy has a strong tendency to criticize the US, and a lot of the critiques of certain issue with the US are valid. However, I started getting really tired of opening comment sections in innocuous and non-political posts only to see that someone somehow found a way to criticize the US in it. At first, I started thinking that maybe some Lemmy users are really unhappy and find criticizing a something stronger helped them feel better as if standing up to injustice was a passion of theirs. But, we don’t see them do that with other targets, just the US. The more I notice and think about it, I’m starting be suspicious that some of those users and comments aren’t authentic, but made to create divisiveness in the West and reject the US entirely. In other words, they may be Russian, Chinese, et al. agents working to feed a stream of propaganda in order to further cause chaos and lack of unity in the West as we have seen them do before.

This is a real problem on Lemmy, although as I stated in my reply, I ascribe it more to just people being assholes rather than Russian/Chinese agents. All the rest of you smug bastards downvoted the post and gave him 100 different replies that basically boiled down to Deal with it, you deserve it.

I validated his feelings and provided a more reasonable explanation, and he replied (also conveniently omitted from the screenshot)

Yes, thank you! This is what I was getting at. The critique isn’t objective stuff. It seems deep-rooted and personal. It’s not about being upset with an action or policy. It’s hate.

Honestly it’s like none of you have any social skills at all. Have you ever thought about gasp being nice to people on Lemmy so that it will maybe become a more positive and welcoming place and eventually grow our userbase? Or am I the only one who is even trying here?

Yeah that’s fine.

I’ve just seen a few too many examples of people going into a community entirely for shit stirring purposes and then playing the victim when they get rightly rebuked. I’ll even defend tankies on that front. Everyone deserves a space where they can talk freely with like-minded individuals without being harassed.

I’m not sure what threads you’re referring to, but if they were on a vegan community then I think that’s a bit uncalled for. You don’t need to go into their space and tell them how they’re wrong.

But if it was just a thread on another community, then I’m obviously fine with it.

My point is that technically you are still making decisions about what to do with some odors body parts without consent, as they can no longer consent. Is there really a difference?

That’s a good point, you’re right.

That’s interesting about the eyes, I’m honestly not sure what to say about that.

Wow, good source. 82% donor rate for the opt-out group versus 79% for the forced-choice is a smaller difference than I would have guessed.

I’m pretty sure people do make their wishes clear regarding their funeral preparations. You can put that kind of stuff in your last will and I would assume it holds some legal weight.

I actually agree that organ donation should be opt-out, but there is an unavoidable argument against that. Namely, the fact that people have the right to opt-out at all implies that you have a responsibility to verify their informed consent before enrolling them in the procedure. At least, that would be the conventional wisdom according to the field of medical ethics.

That sounds promising, I think you’re right that it would be a significant improvement in donor rates over the opt-in system.

I agree, but it raises an interesting argument regarding the definition of consent. I don’t necessarily believe in free will so I like to mention it in situations where you can easily see that people are more accurately described as reacting to their environment than making any kind of conscious choice.

Simply by changing from opt-in to opt-out, you mostly reverse the observed behavior of a population. Lots of applications for this sort of thinking, like voting for instance.

I think it’s interesting to ask whether people in the opt-out countries are really consenting. Can you really say someone has consented if you never actually made the request?

Holy chrimbus! Nice activity bro. You’re like ThePicardManeuver of cats and anime

Yeah I guess that’s true, they are defederated from us but technically we aren’t defederated from them. But they still can’t see anything that SJW users post or participate in our communities. And same for lemmy.world, etc.

So you only really see them when they comment on lemmy.ml communities for the most part. There are a lot of lemmy.ml sublemmies to be fair.