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midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

Instance has comparatively high and active userbase with a very high percentage of Linux users

That may be true, but your instance doesn’t have a very high percentage of engagement in this community outside of this post. Copying from an older comment of mine:

These are the top 3 instances commenting in this specific post at the time of writing (2023-08-25 08:02 UTC):

<span style="color:#323232;">instance   | count
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-------------+-------
</span><span style="color:#323232;">hexbear.net |   205
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lemmy.ml    |   106
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lemm.ee     |    61
</span>

These are the top 3 instances and their comment counts on any post in lemmy.ml/c/unixporn this month at the time of writing:

<span style="color:#323232;">domain    | count
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-------------+-------
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lemmy.ml    |   210
</span><span style="color:#323232;">hexbear.net |   210
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lemm.ee     |   100
</span>

You’re reading that right, hexbear has a whopping FIVE comments in this community that are not part of this post.

One of those 5 is a user participating in the hexbear brigade in this thread that commented previously said rices were inspiring. But go ahead and tell me all those users are pillars of the linux community. Which bad faith argument will you use next?

Inb4 bRIgaDIng HAs To be ORGaniZed And we’re NoT; even though an acceptable use of the term is also when a particular group floods another community’s space that they don’t normally participate in. I know you lot have trouble grasping a term can have multiple definitions, so don’t hurt yourself champ.

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

I have no idea what “rice” is supposed to evoke outside of its history in the car industry/communities.

Whoops, your virtue signal is showing.

https://hexbear.net/comment/3749006

Don’t go deleting it now.

midnight , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

Right, I forgot you fools lack reading comprehension skills and the ability to recognize nuance.

I didn’t say there was brigading going on, your comrade brought that up. I simply said just because some users were arriving organically doesn’t mean brigading is out of the question. The original point, which continues to be evident, is that there are a ton of hexbear users piling on to anyone that doesn’t fall in line with OP. You all seem to conveniently ignore that and straw man into bringing up brigading and hurling insults. You prove my point every time a new one engages. Every. Time.

The only remotely racist users I’ve seen here are, unsurprisingly, hexbear users. You’re the main ones attempting to nurture a term in a different context to try to get a completely different community to use your preferred racist definition. If you truly were anti-racist I would have expected celebration of the death of a racist term in the car community by way of the unixporn community using it with pride to show off their DEs.

Instead you cling for dear life onto your racist definition like conservatives do to the fucking electoral college and FPTP. It’s really telling.

Edit: I went ahead and queried the lemmy database from a federated instance I have access to.

These are the top 3 instances commenting in this specific post at the time of writing (2023-08-25 08:02 UTC):

<span style="color:#323232;">instance   | count
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-------------+-------
</span><span style="color:#323232;">hexbear.net |   205
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lemmy.ml    |   106
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lemm.ee     |    61
</span>

These are the top 3 instances and their comment counts on any post in lemmy.ml/c/unixporn this month at the time of writing:

<span style="color:#323232;">domain    | count
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-------------+-------
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lemmy.ml    |   210
</span><span style="color:#323232;">hexbear.net |   210
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lemm.ee     |   100
</span>

You’re reading that right, hexbear has a whopping FIVE comments in this community that are not part of this post.

For the curious, those 5 comments at the time of writing are:

• hexbear.net/comment/3722672
• hexbear.net/comment/3749006
• hexbear.net/comment/3722165
• hexbear.net/comment/3722091
• hexbear.net/comment/3790117

One of which is especially hilarious as we see a hexbear user that’s been railing on people in this post using the very term they’re condemning here. Strong convictions? Perhaps bandwagoning the hexbear teet? Who knows. Definitely not suspicious 🙄

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

🥱 read your shift change notes. The line you’re taking has already been quashed.

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

Last I checked unixporn isn’t the car community. It’s literally a different context. There’s zero pejorative tones. It’s literally being used with pride, not hate or disdain.

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

Y’all need to learn to understand context. Someone born in 1988 with 88 tattooed on them is not inherently racist. Someone with 88 tattooed right under their swastika tat is racist.

I don’t have time to run every term through the book of hidden meanings for racists that you people seem to have. It’s not racist in this context and the only ones trying to make it that way are those like you. Let it die.

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

The shift change comment was to a hexbear user, as the screenshot shows. For what it’s worth I had to go to the hexbear instance to see the full thread, your reply was coming up with no way for me to view context so I wasn’t sure if I actually fucked up or what happened. We can blame Lemmy growing pains I suppose.

I’m also just a Linux guy getting by. But I reject the notion that a term considered racist in one context continues to be so outside of that context, terms that only exist in a racist context (n word) not withstanding. All of the times I’ve seen rice used to describe a person’s DE changes has always been a point of pride and not pejorative. This one’s ripe to defang and the people interested in perpetuating it as racist are largely hexbear users and some stragglers that align with them on this point.

That said I don’t care if the term changes or not, but the apparent brigading and piling on centered around hexbear users masquerading as “omg we’re just so popular” is laughable.

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

Oops, did you forget to switch accounts the first time you commented? Or do you just share the lack of reading comprehension with your hexbear friends? I didn’t say it was only hexbear users piling on, just that there were a lot of them.

Big Dean Browning vibes my internet person. If you think I’m talking out of my ass I don’t want to know where you’re talking from right now. Yikes.

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

I don’t know if you know this, but nobody cares if you call them a baby. But by all means keep doing it so you can show your friends how you totally owned someone online by calling them a baby 🤣

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

Ooh shift change. Why do you lot latch onto a rehtorical question so hard? Is your victim complex really that strong? I simply pointed out that a lot of hexbear users are piling onto those that disagree with the OP and you’re proving my my point. You detach from the discussion and start going after the person almost every time.

Btw you should really share notes, one of your comrades already tried to say I didn’t understand how federation works and you’re both wrong. Keep trying though 🥱

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

If that were true you would have stopped after you did it. But you didn’t, because that wasn’t your only purpose, but go on keep deluding yourself.

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

oh shit I forgot liberals babies communists don’t have reading comprehension skills, even for things they wrote

You wouldn’t see the reframing because your reading comprehension is ass. People hurling insults instead of addressing a point is classic maga, but go on, show me how you don’t argue a point the same while using the same tired tactics.

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

I don’t have an opinion on their compatibility, I don’t belong to either group and don’t have any interest in either. What I do know is both of you use the same tactics when trying to argue a point. The way you try to reframe things to insert your conclusion as fact and then act like that’s the end of it is the same shit Ben Shapiro does to OwN thE LiBs. I can also say without a doubt that both groups are equally insufferable

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

Usernames are irrelevant. Do you think I’m the middle of the night? Is your name Brett and you like macadamia nuts? McDonalds? Or are you taking maga and wanting to make america communist again? Are you a fan of the macabre and tt is your initials? You’re inserting your own prejudices to do a lot of heavy lifting here.

If you want to equate maga and communism go for it. But I didn’t and no amount of your mental gymnastics will change that.

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

Missing: any reference to communism.