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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • 👏if you want to censor something, don’t write it 👏

    Writing is a tool for communication. Writing something implies your desire to communicate it.

    This might land a little controversial but I’ll go one step further and say you should not censor racial/homophobic slurs if they are not being used for offense. For example:

    “I hate my cop neighbor, I heard he called my niece a f***ot”

    (I obviously censored it here because lemmy prob. has a filter for that shit.)

    In this sentence, I am not attacking anyone and I am simply trying to communicate a bad act done by somebody else. The message of the sentence is not homophobic in any way and me censoring the nasty word definitely didn’t change anything about the message. People can still hear that word loud and clear.

    So if you think including the word would be offensive for people, and think it’s not a crucial part of your message, simply don’t write it.

    “I hate my cop neighbor, I heard he called my niece a homophobic slur”

    There you go. You did not communicate the word f***ot and your audience did not receive it. A successful example of self censorship


  • I am 20. I hate algospeak so bad. But “ahh” kinda stuck in my tongue

    “ahh” feels like the sound you’d make when you try to say “ass” quickly

    I feel like “ass” and “ahh” conveys different feelings so I use them interchangably. But I still cringe a bit because “ahh” originated from algospeak








  • I’m gonna say posting screenshots is kind of parallel to the purpose of this place. Lemmy is an aggregator, a platform where content from other sites is linked/reposted.

    Original content is still important, as without them, the website would die in a few weeks. But we should not ignore the value “crossposted” stuff adds to this place. I read a lot of great, original stories under the thread shown in your screenshot.

    !science_memes@mander.xyz is a perfect example of this. It is filled with unoriginal content and screenshots but I genuinely learned more stuff in the comment section of that community compared to “serious” science communities in other platforms. That also has something to do with the quality of fediverse users of course, but my point stands











  • Well, I use it, I like it, and I can confidently say it’s not for everyone

    You gotta think the gnome way. Like, for example, I don’t feel the absence of the minimize button because I adopted gnome’s workspace-based flow

    It doesn’t get in my way, I don’t even feel its existence most of the time. Gnome 3 sucked and definitely got in my way but beware that I am talking about gnome 4x here.