Kbin recently popped up if you want an alternative to Lemmy, but it’s still in early beta

the admins of lemmy.ml are tankies and encourage this sort of propaganda posting. i’d highly recommend you move instances if this bothers you; sopuli.xyz and beehaw.org are both good instances

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the central thesis is that the free software movement was colonized. in order for the free software movement to win, they had to compromise their values and become corporate-friendly. the Free Software Foundation itself faded into irrelevance and obscurity because of their ideological purity

i’m not saying RMS is wrong at all. all i’m saying is that if the FSF wants to reach more people, a certain amount of pragmatism is required. RMS, his ideology aside, has a tarnished reputation. the FSF should keep his ideals of course, but have a new champion, one who more people can identify with and who doesn’t have all the baggage that RMS has

it’s not about his thinking, it’s about his public image and how it reflects on the FSF. he’s controversial, and a controversial leader is exactly not what the FSF needs

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since y’all can’t read, here’s the whole offenses list:

• Imminent harm - Self-harm or suicide.
  • Someone is threatening to harm themselves in real life or talking about harming themselves in real life.
• Child sexual exploitation or abuse.
  • Someone is talking about or otherwise promoting indecent behavior involving children.
• Terrorism or violent extremism.
  • Someone is talking about, promoting, or threatening with acts of terrorism or violent extremism for political, religious, ideological, or other reasons.
• Hate speech.
  • Someone is attacking you or another player based on characteristics of their identity, like religion, race, or sexuality.
• Imminent harm - Threat to harm others.
  • Someone is threatening to harm you or someone else in real life.
• Non-consensual intimate imagery.
  • Someone is talking about, sharing, or otherwise promoting private and intimate images.
• Harassment or bullying.
  • Someone is shaming, attacking, or bullying you or someone else. This includes when someone is repeatedly trying to contact you or someone else without consent or posting private personal information about you or someone else without consent (“doxing”).
• Defamation, impersonation, false information.
  • Someone is damaging someone else’s reputation, pretending to be someone they’re not, or sharing false information with the aim to exploit or mislead others.
• Drugs or alcohol.
  • Someone is encouraging others to partake in illegal drug related activities or encouraging underage drinking.

see? nothing about profanity, and the drugs category isn’t nearly as widely applicable as sexy_peach makes it out to be. plus, you’re not banned from the game proper, you’re only banned from online play. you can still play your singleplayer worlds. and i know microsoft bad yadda yadda yadda but some people deserve to have their online privileges revoked. and the only people that are objecting to all this (that have read the announcement) are nazis and edgelords, precisely the kind of people that shouldn’t be playing online in the first place.