seconding liking manual. it’s way better than automatically marking as read, imo. because then you can come back to it later.

comment is replied to it should automatically be marked as read

this already happens on my end so maybe it’s a bug. you should check to see if there is a ticket open

reasonable people are willing to learn. you are not expected to be up to date on every single new term that appears. asking what something means, as you did above, is perfectly fine.

by “online spaces” i was referring to forums, message boards, subreddits

type of language was slurs. reclaimed slurs specifically - slurs no one uses for themselves were banned outright.

Never “I am an internet troll and I am leaving lemmy because of these words are banned”

someone literally made a fork of lemmy without the filter so this has absolutely happened.

“I am hurt by people using those words and want them banned”

i am confident this would occur if the filter did not exist.

I don’t think it’s the most effective way to change people’s behaviour or anything.

it’s not the most effective way to change bigots. it is, however, an effective way of changing people with predjudices of which they are unaware. for example, if someone used a certain slur as normal speech and was forced to replace it in practice (while writing) they are being forced to think about alternatives and if confronted multiple times may eliminate the slur from their vocabulary entirely.

for those who would refuse to just find alternate vocabulary… well, let’s just say this site is better for everyone when those people go elsewhere.

never in the form of somebody saying

this is not true. i’ve moderated online spaces and plenty of people send messages asking for certain language to be disallowed. and even if it were the case that no one spoke up, a lot of times people just straight up leave online spaces when they are uncomfortable. im sure i could find hundreds of instances on reddit alone

those who can’t do, teach

(ps. i think the idiom is bs. being able to teach is a gift and i’m sure you’re way better at the game than you think :sparkling heart:)

this is not the hill to die on. it is not that hard to use other words. and even if there were zero other reasons, keeping fascists away is enough.

as a marginalised person you should know that a slur you reclaim may be extremely offensive to someone else in the same grouping. take your example: a lot of people have reclaimed it but there are others still who have been hurt by that slur and are very sensitive to hearing it. this is true for many slurs.

if someone you were close to irl was like “hey, that word makes me uncomfortable” you would stop using it around them. because it would be disrespectful and hurtful for you to continue to do so. sure, people on the internet are strangers, but does that mean you potentially subject marginalized people to harm just because you don’t know them?

yeah mastodons are dope. too bad they went extinct 10,000+ years ago. it would have been really cool to see them and mammoths

they were being sarcastic (not about the articles but the “it’s gonna die” part). sidenote - if you look up “mastodon dying” most of the articles are about actual mastodons

free TLD

whoa whoa whoa. is that why .ml was used? i always assumed it was because of the immortal science

It’s an app that implements changes based to what its community wants, it’s an app that can care about your opinion and your choices.

i take exception to this comment. signal is an app that changes based on what moxie (and signal foundation) wants, not necessarily what the community does

i know why rust is popular but may i ask what you like about kotlin?

good piece with a lot of important things to think about. thank you for sharing.

i think RedReader which is a reddit client available on GooglePlay and on F-Droid handles this issue in a really great way. You can add multiple accounts to the app and switching between them is fast and easy–no logging out and in involved. You can also browse anonymously.

The reason I think it handles this issue so well, however, is that when you make a new post or comment, you can choose right then and there which account you want it to come from. so if you are logged into your meme account but see a post in r/science, you can easily comment from your professional account. Also, unlike any other reddit app i have encountered, you have the option to force all traffic through Tor (via Orbot); if your Tor connection is interrupted, the app does not default to the clearnet.

more approachable than StackOverflow

anything is more approachable

i think it’s not likely to come up in most popular music but i have heard hip-hop lyrics that reference it

someone pointed out that any movies/tv that take place in the “present” now take place in alternate realities where covid-19 never existed

you all are incredible! great work. thank you for everything you do :two hearts:

offending households’ use could then be examined. if it is found to be excessive, reasonable limits could be placed. limits could be things like the household only gets 15 dryer cycles a month but can still use the washer without limit and hang dry.

if things are pooled, there will always be people who use less and people who use more. perhaps incentives could be given to those who use less water than average.

anecdotally: i know of people who have “free” (technically negative cost) energy (the energy companies approached them to install solar panels on their roofs to help put more energy into the grid). their use has not changed.

tired of hearing about american politics

this part is understandable. however, the rest of what you said is incorrect.

everything is political, i wasnt being sarcastic. politics cannot be removed from discussion of this article because they are intrinsically linked.

If you were worried about sending your kids back to school after the pandemic ends

why are people concerned about sending their kids back to school? are they concerned about their health because of the way the government handled the pandemic? are they concerned about how their child will be educated? are they concerned about if they child has fallen behind? all of this has to do with politics. education decisions are largely made by governments, and in the US, the government is legally responsible for ensuring children have access to education

some US school districts are buying tools designed to break into phones to download texts and photos… even ones that have been deleted.

why would schools be doing this? just because? do we all live in a vacuum where nothing relates to anything else so they are just doing this completely randomly, void of any influencing factors?

Commenting on the devices, Cooper Quintin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation says that they “started out in the provenance of the U.S. military or federal law enforcement, and then made their way into state and local law enforcement, and also eventually make their way into the hands of criminals or petty tyrants like school administrators.”

the US military, federal law enforcement, local law enforcement… hmmm… sounds… political

Unlike in law enforcement, though, school districts don’t have to get a warrant to use the devices on students’ phones.

hmm… school districts don’t have to get a warrant. this sounds like it could be ~political~. let’s find out:

The Supreme Court ruled that school officials only need to reasonably believe that a student is guilty of something and that searching the phone will probably obtain evidence of it.

oh, would you look at that. it is!

i would say governing use is difficult to do because different households have different needs. a two-bedroom apartment housing 5 people will need more electricity than a two-bedroom with 2 occupants. they will also need more water. but you can’t govern by number of occupants either: 3 healthy adults may need less than 2 healthy adults and 1 disabled child.

i think education on energy use, better renewable energy sources, and forbidding people from doing things like mining cryptocurrency in their home would help regulate individual energy use without being restrictive.

as a whole though, it is important to remember that it is industry that is so wasteful. energy needs to be looked at on a global level because the amount of strain on the environment by an individual is completely insignificant in comparison.

the reality is everything is political