I can see where you come from, but as a gay man, I would go crazy if I had to enter every homophobic encounter with an open mind.

Also, entering an argument might not change the other persons mind, but it might change the mind of bystanders

While this post is talking about the internet, in general it is important to talk about “politics” with people (what is “political” ?).

If you don’t talk to people about why racism, sexism, transphobia or something else is bad, they will bring that conversation to people who don’t have the choice to ignore the conversation. They will harm and harass minorities.

I agree that the internet might not be the best place to change people’s minds, but it is important to name and argue against bigotry when encountered.

You should of course still be mindful of your own mental health <3

where is this from ? :)

just advertisment for Amazon - now people will talk about them and share this ad on social media :/

All positions of power can (and will) be exploited. While religion has been used to justify a lot of bad things, so has a lot of other things. Religion is also a lot of good things, like culture, philosophy and wisdom passing through generations.

It is also worth noting that you criticise religion as a whole, but all your links are about Christianity.

I point this out, because I used to be a hardcore White atheist and I had a lot of bad takes. A lot of indigenous religions do not have the same ideas about hierarchy and even the Christian idea that humans are above nature often does not exist.

Hierarchies are a bad thing in all* forms, but hierarchies are not necessary for religion.

there is a lot of weird things about what you’re saying, but for one:

the same amount or more petroleum would be spend on cultivating food for the to-be-slaughtered animals and transporting the meat around.

I’m not a vegan (anymore), but veganism is still the lesser evil here

sadly, poor people often support/are fascists too :(

I think perhaps it would be nice with custom tags.

I would like to block all content of sexual nature (sexual nudity, lewd anime, the like)

it is very subjective what is nsfw and what is not. For some people, making porn is their work, so obviously porn is not nsfw for them.

If we had custom tags, we would have the hassle of having the same thing in a lot of different categories, but I would much prefer that to having only the nsfw option which is just not enough to capture the diversity of content (and badly named).

then I could block all the porn tags (or perhaps block a user driven list of porn tags) and avoid a lot more “porn” than I do now 😅

I do my personal wiki in markdown (with kakoune and kak-wiki), and then I convert to html using pandas :)

converting to html, adds an extra step in order for people to edit the text, but it makes it easy to access and navigate :)

we should really get rid of the idea of the “friendzone”.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/08/time-to-ditch-friendzone-idea/

I think this article explains it fine, but to summarize:

it comes from an idea that men (especially ‘nice guys’) deserve sex from women for being in their proximity.

being friends with someone should be a good thing and not just the waiting zone for a relationship.

https://youtube.com/@faryafaraji

I think I’ve heard good things about this person :)

Ahh, thanks 😅

aside from your opinions on cursing, mocking people for being fat is not cool.

just like people are born with different hair color, people’s bodies look different. You can’t tell based on somebody’s body type whether they’re living as healthy as they can.

Some people could have illnesses that make them fatter. Some people are just fat and healthy. In all cases, you should not mock people for being fat.

I don’t get it 😅

do you want to explain it ? :))

all the people I’ve seen supporting Palestine and being against the genocide have not changed stance

who have you seen change their opinion ?

I try to be ready to leave, meaning dressed and bag is packed, as early as possible. I am for being as ready as possible at least 15 minutes before I leave. I add and subtract minutes depending on how important the event is and how much I need to have checked before leaving.

also, I try to aim for being at least 10 minutes early for most events. this is working very good for me. it allows small talk with other people who’ve arrived and it allows time for being late.

it is time consuming, but I’ve come to enjoy the breaks it gives, before leaving and when arriving early ^^

also, thinking through what I need to prepare before leaving as early as possible. Often, I think about it the afternoon before I have to pack.

good luck :)

//edit:

these systems don’t stop me from getting distracted and forgetting things, but because I’ve moved everything 15 minutes earlier, then when I’m late for my own deadlines, often I’ll still make it to the actual deadlines :)

sad to see that he thinks like that about rape and the whole Epstein thing :(

There is https://peertube.tv/

It is a video sharing platform and part of the fediverse :))

I think that might happen more often on mastodon, since if you reply to a thread there, it gets boosted to all your followers.

It might be interesting to add a sorting method to Lemmy, that would bump posts every time a comment is added.

Perhaps something to turn on for each community individually ?

I saw the image and I was about to make a comment about the langoliers. Lovely story ^^