they/them/their/theirs/themself
Couldn’t even make display names 2 characters longer, huh?
Hey @GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml, since you said:
we should still fix any federation issues that exist between Lemmygrad and Hexbear
elsewhere, you get to be the first to hear me whine about federation issues.
Any chance the !socialism@lemmygrad.ml sidebar could get updated to resolve this?
Abolish DHS
Abolish America
Abolish DHS
Abolish America
Yeah, my understanding is that would fix it. I do think an admin would need to fix it, but thought I should take more of a straightforward approach towards explaining the issue than I did previously before just pinging folks.
Maybe they mean leftists in an American sense where they’re actually talking about center-right liberals? 
Seems more likely they’ve made their profile private to prevent people from contextualizing statements like this, though.
Far too many aren’t even getting to the point of weighing whether it’s worse to commit genocide or go to jail - just skip straight to 
Always disappointing to see stonetoss comic edits.
You can just choose not to use stonetoss comics.
Labels are, imo, mostly a shorthand that help identify people with common interests, experiences, goals, etc. I don’t think most people solely identify with a label so much as use them as a means to find people who they’re more likely to find interesting (or not).
Identifying as a g*mer certainly lacks nuance - there’s many genres of games and different people are going to be interested in different ones. People who primarily play sports games or board games probably aren’t as likely to choose that label as people who play shooters, sure, so there’s some implicit nuance about the types of games someone plays when they label themselves that way, but it still provides a jumping off point for someone to determine a level of overlap exists with someone else.
I think that people who identify as one thing are actually pretty rare - people don’t really define their entire selves from a single label, they collect the ones that somewhat fit well enough to make sense to most other people, while signaling to the people who share a given one that there are common interests that could be fun to delve into further together and figure out to what extent they truly are or aren’t shared interests.
I do think labels can be harmful and thought-terminating, but I don’t think they’re inherently so. They can be used to other or marginalize a group of people, yes, but IMO that’s not behavior that’s driven by the people who find that label resonates with them.
Glad it’s sorted, welcome back! 
While I can’t imagine why you’d have blocked them, this is what a comm looks like after I block it. If you expand the sidebar, do you get an “Unblock Community” button?
I’m usually browsing from the hexbear side of things, so yes, but:
As a result, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some other comms with federation struggles.
From here, the list:
Organizations from Which the United States Shall Withdraw.
(a) Non-United Nations Organizations:
(i) 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact;
(ii) Colombo Plan Council;
(iii) Commission for Environmental Cooperation;
(iv) Education Cannot Wait;
(v) European Centre of Excellence for Countering
Hybrid Threats;
(vi) Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories;
(vii) Freedom Online Coalition;
(viii) Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund;
(ix) Global Counterterrorism Forum;
(x) Global Forum on Cyber Expertise;
(xi) Global Forum on Migration and Development;
(xii) Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research;
(xiii) Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development;
(xiv) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;
(xv) Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services;
(xvi) International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property;
(xvii) International Cotton Advisory Committee;
(xviii) International Development Law Organization;
(xix) International Energy Forum;
(xx) International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies;
(xxi) International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance;
(xxii) International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law;
(xxiii) International Lead and Zinc Study Group;
(xxiv) International Renewable Energy Agency;
(xxv) International Solar Alliance;
(xxvi) International Tropical Timber Organization;
(xxvii) International Union for Conservation of Nature;
(xxviii) Pan American Institute of Geography and History;
(xxix) Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation;
(xxx) Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combatting Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia;
(xxxi) Regional Cooperation Council;
(xxxii) Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century;
(xxxiii) Science and Technology Center in Ukraine;
(xxxiv) Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme; and
(xxxv) Venice Commission of the Council of Europe.
(b) United Nations (UN) Organizations:
(i) Department of Economic and Social Affairs;
(ii) UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) — Economic Commission for Africa;
(iii) ECOSOC — Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean;
(iv) ECOSOC — Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific;
(v) ECOSOC — Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia;
(vi) International Law Commission;
(vii) International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals;
(viii) International Trade Centre;
(ix) Office of the Special Adviser on Africa;
(x) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict;
(xi) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict;
(xii) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children;
(xiii) Peacebuilding Commission;
(xiv) Peacebuilding Fund;
(xv) Permanent Forum on People of African Descent;
(xvi) UN Alliance of Civilizations;
(xvii) UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries;
(xviii) UN Conference on Trade and Development;
(xix) UN Democracy Fund;
(xx) UN Energy;
(xxi) UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women;
(xxii) UN Framework Convention on Climate Change;
(xxiii) UN Human Settlements Programme;
(xxiv) UN Institute for Training and Research;
(xxv) UN Oceans;
(xxvi) UN Population Fund;
(xxvii) UN Register of Conventional Arms;
(xxviii) UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination;
(xxix) UN System Staff College;
(xxx) UN Water; and
(xxxi) UN University.
I can’t claim to be deeply informed on the topic of Cascadian separatism, and I haven’t dug into the truth behind these claims, but I’ve heard that:
If anyone has sources for/against these claims, I’d be interested in reading more.
Communists act like there’s a simple solution here, but corporations are people and money is speech so if you stop the trolley you’re an authoritarian who wants to take away 
Thanks!
I wasn’t 100% sure it’s actually a bug - I guess the sidebar text could similarly be replaced with removed and in this particular case that probably makes sense, but, as an example, it would also make sense to me that an “ok buddy” comm not federate somewhere that blocks ableist words.
Anyways, yeah, I can open an issue on GitHub at some point so that some call can be made about how best to handle this sort of issue, but using any of my existing accounts would be exceedingly poor opsec, and even if the libs in my life know I’m a filthy commie, they don’t need to also tie me to this username quite so easily.