I know about Hexbear and wanted to mention that it was a Hexbear user but this ironically happened just a moment after I made my own Hexbear account. I know some of the users there are extreme, particularly that user, but the community overall I find worth it.

That said I have to wonder what you mean when you say to avoid getting in trouble and to stay safe. Is there a history of people being harassed or harmed by those groups?

Yep, and it wouldn’t be very far back in my history if you want to see it. My last comment in that convo started with “ugh”. I was talking about transgender issues with someone who was extremely argumentative and kept strawmanning my beliefs so I told them in no uncertain terms that I was done with the conversation and blocked them. Later I decided to unblock them and discovered that they had replied not only to that final comment continuing to tell me I’m a bad person for their strawman interpretation of what I said, but to another comment I made in a different thread.

So this person who is actively insulting me also has the ability to follow me around and continue insulting me, and blocking them just makes me unable to defend myself.

Actual functional user blocking. I don’t want users being able to see my comments and reply to them when I have blocked them and I was totally surprised when they did.

This is frankly a really classist remark. No need to bring up her socioeconomic class when there’s a perfectly valid reason to dunk on her already (being a Trump supporter and not knowing when the election is).

No, “Springfield” is a very common town name (especially one founded not on a body of water or river but in a field with springs), which is why The Simpsons selected it. May as well have been “Anytown, USA”.

Anyways, the hoax of Haitian immigrants eating cats was supposedly happening in Springfield, Ohio. It’s baseless but that is what Trump fell for, not a Simpsons sketch or anything like that.

Reverse image search shows the image is over 5 years old (old r/funny thread about it) so not AI generated

Oh yes I see now:

https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/546

If you have the time, it appears a user in that issue is hoping for your permission to update a patch fixing this very issue!

I can understand why it is low priority, but consider that it is outside of basic feature parity with Lemmy. In all other apps (that I have tried) as well as web based frontends (again, that I have tried) the display name is used everywhere.

I for one selected my username in light of the fact that I would be able to edit the display name on Lemmy, and I find that including my pronouns (I recognize this is a niche use of the display name feature) is an easy and generally consistent way to limit confusion and frame conversations involving me.

That state of that bug is disappointing, I see now why it isn’t implemented in this app. No worries, hopefully the Ionic team will prioritize it by the time Google replaces it with a brand new version lol

Thanks for replying!

I imagine it would be just another theme option, not replacing anything else

Why? If it’s American Propaganda, know that that is mainly financed by US social media because TikTok is doing so well. It isn’t a Chinese propaganda machine despite what uninformed fools will tell you.

Am I the only one that uses TikTok? It’s that and Lemmy for me, nothing else. Oh, and infrequently reddit for the subreddit created for the city I live in

Thank you for your service, Twitterenoclast 🫡

Socialism is inherently democratic

Good thing Proton is a nonprofit then 😊

That’s fair. In the US we use those initialisms almost exclusively to refer to those people in casual conversation. They are Martin Luther King (Jr; civil rights advocate I perhaps arrogantly assume most people know of), Lindon B. Johnson (president), John F. Kennedy (president), Robert F. Kennedy (current presidential candidate/Democrat spoiler), and AOC is Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez

You just nailed the disdain - it’s that she’s a woman. And a minority, at that. We can never win those people over.

What about MLK, LBJ, JFK, RFK, etc? Lots of people get “initialized”

Being a non-profit is only “unprofitable” in so much as it won’t enrich anyone. But they do usually operate in the black. The original owner(s) just aren’t interested in selling out/cashing in, so they have reworked the company so that all profits are reinvested into the mission.

VERY modly image

I literally love this description for old degraded/over compressed images

Someone put a piece of American cheese on my exes car once. I thought it might be because of the pagan symbols on it. Took like five minutes to scrape and wipe it off, mostly because it slightly melted despite the low temperatures.