It’s amazing that when faced with sober geopolitical analysis, people mistake it for moral justification or dehumanization. You can’t solve geopolitical issues without acknowledging geopolitics! Of course it was immoral for Russia to attack Ukraine, but shouting that into the void and expecting anything to change does not save Ukrainian or Russian lives.

Hexbear has the largest amount of trans people on one instance as far as I can tell. Lemmy.blahaj.zone is more specifically for trans and queer people, and the admin is trans herself. Lemmy.blahaj.zone is federated with most other instances while many have defederated hexbear because they don’t like when trans people get too uppity. On lemmy.blahaj.zone we are considered the “good ones” or the more acceptable trans people by the other instances because this instance is less partisan/politically opinionated. Not a great situation, but the result is this instance is more widely federated.

no

I learned so much from just going wiki-diving at every step of the installation and post-installation

I have a degree in math and I’m not cringing

legumes are cheaper and more nutritious than eggs

My instance doesn’t federate downvotes, I wonder how many All-scrollers are downvoting regardless of the community :P

I think adopting chickens that need a better home and not shopping for them from breeders is totally reasonable

lol

It’s not tongue in cheek. You described veganism as a dietary preference, but it is an ethical belief and practice. Keeping silent in the face of unethical behavior is normally seen as cowardly or, at the least, not a general positive. If you came upon a person kicking a child, you would likely want to intervene, not merely think to yourself that you wouldn’t do the same.

Here’s a short medium post that sums it up decently, quoted for your convenience:

Look through the comments of the latest Facebook post that has aroused the ire of non-vegans and you’re bound to see the following:

‘I don’t care if you’re vegan, just respect my choice not to be vegan.’

‘How come a vegan gets mad if you serve them meat but won’t serve you meat.’

Stop telling other people how to eat!

These reactions to the promotion of veganism and vegan food products would make complete sense if veganism were a dietary preference, akin to trying not to consume sugar or not liking pickles. But veganism is an ethical stance against the commodity status of animals. Following a vegan diet results when you follow this philosophy.

When you understand the vegan philosophy, the idea of respecting someone’s choice to needlessly consume animal products no longer makes sense. Advocating that people stop using animals to the greatest extent possible is the ethical thing to do, and condoning animal use immoral. Serving non-vegan food to a vegan is rude but serving vegan food to a non-vegan is acceptable because, while a vegan has a moral conviction against eating animals, a non-vegan doesn’t believe that eating a meal without animal products is unethical. They’ve likely eaten Oreos or peanut butter on toast many times.

https://medium.com/fiercely-gentle/why-do-people-still-think-vegan-is-a-diet-9ae2ec6213e8

I have the same advice for you as I have for vegans: let people eat what they want to eat, mind your business, and keep your preferences to yourself unless you’re asked.

It seems you fundamentally misunderstand what veganism is

vegan.bingo

wtf

biome cow variants but not mooblooms and moolips for flower forests?

Aside from food poisoning, this has the potential to spread communicable diseases, so it’s everyone’s problem

Is he actually confirming the nominees?

I installed cosmic the other day. Uninstalled it like 5 minutes later but I enjoyed its vibe. I am excited to see it come out of alpha

a goot respite from doomerism

Does hexbear run two instances or is that a mistake?

… This seems like standard GUI stuff. The interface component defined by some markup, with a hook to some programmatic behavior, and perhaps a corresponding resource ID

Hopefully the fediverse can serve as a deradicalizing force for these reactionary newcomers. However it is interesting that they would want to use federated social media over corporate social media, given their worldview idolizing the market and meritocracy.