<extremely loud incorrect buzzer>

no i agree it’s important to call it out. good point. you just didn’t phrase your original statement in a way that led me to that conclusion.

my instance limits media sizes

edit: i regularly take steps to try to compress an image to a size that works. but have limited time, post from mobile, and this is the shitpost community i post to for fun in my free time. sometimes it doesn’t get done, sorry.

reminder that Hamas (the antisemitic political-military organization) is not Palestine. Hamas even has an entirely different flag from the Palestinian state.

in other words, while the Confederate flag is an explicit expression of racism, the Palestinian flag is absolutely not.

in pre-civil war full-tilt slavery USA, murdering enslaved people was considered a crime, not against humanity but against the slave owner’s “property.”

so yeah pretty much

a necessary service these days. thanks.

sorry gang i tried catbox but it didn’t work. i like imgur because it’s friendly with tineye and free.

that would seem to be more accurate.

to be fair, the ol’ star spangled banner would also fit that heuristic.

i don’t think that’s the takeaway here

Back in December, the instance hosting 196 (lemmy.blahaj.zone) announced that, as part of its mission as a trans-friendly space, harassment based on gender or neopronouns would remain prohibited—even if the user in question was suspected of being a troll. Users were asked to disengage, block, and report suspected trolling behavior rather than bring harassment into a community already vulnerable to that kind of bullying.

There was a small backlash to the policy from some users. This led to a number of “toe the line” posts that weren’t outright gender-based harassment but strongly signaled an intent to misgender or harass in the future. Blahaj admins promptly removed all offending comments during this wave of dissent.

Important to note: The majority of the Blahaj and 196 users supported the policy, upvoting and praising the admins for creating a safe space for trans individuals.

By January, the backlash had mostly subsided, and the trolls causing issues had moved on. However, 196 moderator @moss and their team remained unhappy with the policy. They cited “personal differences” and felt Blahaj admins had overstepped by removing comments themselves rather than allowing 196 mods to address users who openly expressed intent to harass others.

Yesterday, @moss and the 196 moderation team enacted a major decision without consulting the community. They locked [email protected] and instructed users to move to [email protected].

This move was extremely unpopular. Many users strongly dislike lemmy.world for various reasons (a complicated topic better unpacked elsewhere). The announcement post was met with widespread backlash, and @moss eventually locked it. In response, a few users created a new community on Blahaj: [email protected]. The new community quickly grew in size and activity, with most users opting to stay on Blahaj rather than migrate to lemmy.world.

It’s clear @moss and the 196 moderators underestimated the community’s attachment to its home on Blahaj. By attempting to uproot the group without input, they alienated much of the community. As a result, most users have moved to the new Blahaj-hosted community, which has already become the more active space.

TL;DR:
@Moss and the 196 mod team tried to move the community to lemmy.world without consulting anyone. The decision was extremely unpopular, leading to backlash and the creation of a new Blahaj-hosted community that most users now prefer.

giving you the benefit of the doubt like maybe english isn’t your first language, that word is considered a pejorative/slur in all modern usage

ooh ty, can you provide a resource to understand the distinction or if someone else can corroborate, i can edit the title

im not educated enough to understand this but very willing to learn

cool now eat the concept of eating self-plagiarism

there is too much going on here to even understand what this is trying to say lol.

downvoting and suggesting you try again on [email protected].