X/Twitter post by a user whose name has been crossed out reading: wizard hat, cowboy brim Below the text is an image of a black cowboy hat brim with silver and gold detailing barely visible on the roll, cut off at the brown band with silver circular crown, the crown has been replaced with the pointed part of a black wizard’s hat, complete with silver stars and moon.
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Their guidelines say you shouldn’t keep responding to someone who says they don’t want to keep talking. So let’s say someone uses a slur that not everyone agrees is a slur, like the R word. I can’t downvote it, so I report it and reply “no slurs”. They respond “I didn’t use a slur and I don’t want to discuss it with you”. Well now it’s down to the moderators to remove the content, and if they don’t agree with me or they aren’t educated then I can’t do a thing about it.
Back on Reddit people used to use my disability as an insult all the time. I’d downvote, report, and comment. I’d pester the bigot so they’d learn that using slurs is more trouble than it’s worth, and lots of times the moderators would say “that’s not a slur” and leave the comment up, and then 4 weeks later the Reddit admins would come and remove the comment. But by then I’d already persuaded the bigot that using slurs is a huge hassle that only leads to trouble. I had a system. I could fight bigotry myself even though I wasn’t a mod.
On beehaw I’m just supposed to trust that the moderators are perfect? No thanks, I’m an anarchist. I don’t trust anyone unconditionally. It would take a whole lot of effort to persuade me that beehaw is a safe space. Because to me, a safe space is a space where I’m able to defend myself when nobody else will.
I thought for a bit that I was defederated from there, but kbin.social stuff usually loads fine and I don’t think you can defederate individual communities. So perhaps worthy of a Memmy bug report.
I didn’t see you were on a different instance - each community needs to be manually added to your instance’s federation list. Lemmy doesn’t federate the entire instance - just individual communities. You only see communities that have at least 1 subscriber local to your instance - no subscribers, no federation.
If you go to dmv.social in a web browser and you type https://kbin.social/m/wizardposting into the search bar on your instance, you’ll see it pop up in the search. Then you can subscribe to it on your instance and the community will start federating because there’s 1 subscriber on your instance (you). You won’t see any past posts from before federation, but you’ll see future ones.
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