Me normally: Freedom of expression is important. Not all media has to be ideologically pure or reflective of reality
Me after seeing all the weird ridiculous things porn makes men believe: burn it all, burn it all!
We ended up choosing blahaj. Come join us at [email protected]. We'd love to see you :)
The vote succeeded for lemmy, come join us at /c/badwomensanatomy!
Would you allow yourself to be blended with a symbiote?
Any kind? Just the tok'ra? Just the goa'uld? To save yourself from death, or out of genuine interest?
Discuss
Thanks Ada for your response and your willingness to welcome us in. I'll confer with the team and see if we can achieve consensus.
We've discussed this possibility a little bit. All I can say is we're going to do our best to read the room and do what's best for the community. We'll probably have more discussions internally before we make the final call.
edit: I think the big issue is there isn't a lot of role models for this kind of migration. It's been a clusterfuck for everyone from start to finish. I don't think any of the other mod teams expected the protest to fail this bad.
That's equally true. I guess the main apprehension is that it'll confuse a lot of people who's first experience with lemmy is "register on this other site, then put the first site into the search bar so you can sub". Ultimately we just want to ensure it's not a shitshow.
This is certainly true, and I'm aware of this. But our community isn't tight nit and passionate as others - we fear that if we go somewhere with closed registration, very few people will make the jump.
Badwomensanatomy - Possible Migration from Reddit.
Hi, I'm u/MayaFey_ from reddit, I am on the mod team of /r/badwomensanatomy.
We were part of the failed protest, and frankly we're done with spez. We're leaving. We have a poll on our subreddit to choose between lemmy, discord, and raddle, and lemmy is winning by a large margin so far.
So if lemmy wins, the question will present itself... which instance will we move to? As a mod team, we'd prefer an instance with open registration to lower friction for our reddit members making the transition. And we're also looking for a place that is not accepting of misogyny or violence against women. This is me sending out feelers to figure out which instances would be a best fit and most accepting of our community.
Some details about us:
Badwomensanatomy is a community about... bad women's anatomy. Users will reproduce images they found elsewhere (like, a snip of a facebook post, or something from a poorly drawn manga, for example) that state incorrect ideas about anatomy or incorrect depictions of anatomy. Sometimes these posts can be NSFW, or misogynistic, but the idea behind the community is we call these things out and discuss the ways they are ill-conceived and what the correct anatomy is.
Our sub is very pro-queer and pro-trans, and not tolerant of terfs at all. Though it doesn't specifically relate to queerness or transness, so I'm not sure how good of a fit it will be.
So far, about 40 users have responded to our poll and it's been 5 hours. Our sub has over 500k subs, but being realistic, only a few dozen or a hundred at most will make the jump. That said, that's still a lot of users given how small lemmy is at this time.
If you're receptive to this migration, and the poll confirms the community's choice to go to lemmy, we can create a community here and start migrating. As a representative of the mod team, I am willing to chip in to the running costs of this instance to compensate for the increase burden.
Let me know what you think.
I actually really want a Teal'c show that's just him going around the galaxy solving crimes. I unironically think it would be a great way for Amazon to revive the show for new viewers.
Reddit Migration Guide
Welcome!
There are a lot of explainers on how Lemmy works out there, and honestly? They're all terrible. You've probably heard the phrase "well, it's like email", which somehow, leaves you with more questions than answers.
So, how the fuck does this shit work? Well...
It's just Reddit, but on multiple servers.
No really, that's it. Each lemmy 'instance' is its own reddit. It has users, communities (sub reddits) posts, and so on. If all the other lemmy instances were to go offline except this one, you'd still have a fully functional reddit. Just emptier.
Imagine if reddit had separate domains responsible for hosting groups of communites. Like, maybe one would have /r/aww and /r/pics, and other might have /r/badwomensanatomy and /r/twoxchromosomes. Each would have different global rules which applied to everything on that domain.
The special sauce is that other lemmy servers all share their data. This is the part that everyone refers to as 'like email'. This means, to access a community hosted on another sever, you don't need to visit it. You can access it from your own server!
But how do I do that?
[Your instance URL]/c/[Community Name]@[Other Instance URL]
For example:
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected]
From your account on FMHY, this accesses the 'cats' community on the sh.itjust.works server.
You can search for communities on all servers by clicking the search button and narrowing to community. Or you can use a fediverse browser like this one: https://lemmyverse.net/
But what happens if two people on different servers create the same community. Which one is the 'real' one?
Neither of them.
That's both the strength and disadvantage of this platform. The upshot: if you don't like how a community is run, you can just create your own version on another instance. The disadvantage is that come communities end up fractionalized.
So you can, for example, have [email protected] and [email protected].
It's up to you to choose which one to participate in.
Ok, but where do I create an account. And don't tell me 'it's a personal choice'. Which instance is the best, is it this one?
Each instance has their own rules for users and for federations. Some are more open, some are more closed.
Remember that data sharing thing I mentioned earlier? Well, some instances can choose not to share their data. This means communities can be cut off from one another. This generally doesn't happen, most instances share with all other instances. But there are some exceptions.
Depending on your politics, this might be a good thing or a bad thing.
For example, https://beehaw.org/ has very protective rules against minorities, and is considered a much safer space. But to achieve that, it defederated from a couple very large instances.
To contrast, https://lemmy.world/ has very lax rules and a large userbase. It has a lot of stuff, good and bad.
I chose FMHY as it is a smaller instance that exists in a kind of middle ground. It's federated by essentially all other instances, has set of rules and open culture that appeals to me and my moderation style of /r/azula.
So, unfortunately, it is a personal choice, BUT, for certain personal values, there are better or worse options. You can find a list of instances to join here: https://join-lemmy.org/instances
If you need any help deciding, message me on reddit or create a temporary account here to comment below. You can always join multiple instances!
However, wherever you choose to create your account, you'll be able to access the Azula community. Just type [email protected] into your instance's search!
CS passing was dark news for all of us. He really put his heart into the Ba'al character, and we were blessed to have him.
The Russians are beyond parody. They like comparing themselves to America a lot, but at least when America demilitarizes someone, they actually follow through.
Honestly, the show creators should be ashamed with how they underutilized the Tok'ra. They were given no cultural depth whatsoever. The show alluded to things like "How have the Tok'ra, with all their technology, been fighting the goa'uld for thousands of years and made no progress, but 10 four-man teams under a mountain can do it in their spare time in a few years?" but never actually made any effort to answer them. "We have a plan" became sort of a running joke - the steiner's counterattack of the Tok'ra.
Eventually they had to pivot to intentionally portraying the Tok'ra as arrogant, incompetent assholes because they failed to portray them any other way.
They had so much opportunity to delve into things like the ethics and practical effects of only accepting hosts who essentially have to sign on to dedicating their life to being a member of the alien taliban, or how relationships work, or why the Tok'ra never had any harcesis children, or how they handle the effects of constant host replenishment on their reigning political ideology, or the differences between born-tok'ra and goa'uld converts, or how they envisioned society being after the fall of the empire, or 100 other things.
The tok'ra were wasted (along with the goa'uld to be honest) and it drives me up the wall.
Any snakelovers make the migration yet?
I love my snakes, both goa'uld and Tok'ra. What are ya'll's favorites? I would have to say mine is Nirrti.