Due to multiple factors, such as unaddressed ableist removals from the /c/196 moderators, defense of chasers, no-quarter rules regarding our users, leakage of good-faith DMs from our admin team, and a general lack of initiative to punish these behaviors, we have come to the conclusion that the 196 community on lemmy.blahaj.zone has made the fediverse an unsafe space for our queer, disabled, neurodivergent, non-western, and other marginalized comrades on this forum, and we will be defederating from lemmy.blahaj.zone until we can be confident that this will not continue to be an issue.

We have attempted to make good-faith parley with both the instance admin and the comm moderators, but we've reached a point which we feel that until these behaviors are addressed by instance administration, we can no longer continue to federate in good-faith while our users are being actively invalidated by a small-but-vocal portion of the forum. Once we are confident that these behaviors have ceased and are unlikely to continue, we are more-than-happy to refederate in the name of queer solidarity.

Thanks for bearing with us :07:

        • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
          ·
          11 months ago

          I dunno, I think it's pretty neat how it's capitalized as "IJsselmeer" because ⟨ij⟩ is seen as inseperable.

                  • iridaniotter [she/her, they/them]
                    ·
                    11 months ago

                    I had a phase in high school for about a year. Nowadays I only know a handful of words and the fact that they use diaereses for words like tweeëntwintig.

                    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
                      ·
                      11 months ago

                      Have you ever tried learning another language or thought of picking Dutch back up again?

                      • iridaniotter [she/her, they/them]
                        ·
                        11 months ago

                        Currently busy doing a very poor job at learning Chinese. In the unlikely scenario I end up fleeing to Europe, I guess I'd learn Norwegian or Dutch lol. Are you Dutch?

                        • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
                          ·
                          11 months ago

                          I'm from Norway but my mom was born in the USA. Dutch to me basically feels like the mid-point between English and Norwegian, to the point where I can read a lot of Wikipedia articles in Dutch with more or less complete comprehension.

                          Fleeing to Europe, you say? Where are you from, then?

                          Chinese is a good language. I spend a peculiar amount of time looking at YouTube videos for Chinese learners despite not being a learner of that language myself: I'm in fact focusing on Japanese right now, and a good baseline in Chinese I think can be a huge help in learning that language, due to their shared history. I'm thinking of eventually shifting over to learning Chinese, but who knows when that might happen.

                          Are you familiar with 808CJK on YouTube? Which resources do you use for learning Chinese?

                          Oh, and remember: the thing that matters most in language learning is that you know more today than you knew yesterday! The same goes for most skills.

                          • iridaniotter [she/her, they/them]
                            ·
                            11 months ago

                            Yeah Dutch is relatively close to English, and some of the grammar resembles Middle English which is fun. I'd only try fleeing if shit hits the fan in the US, and my partner and I both have close friends in Europe. I'm not familiar with 808CJK but I will check the channel out. I'm in college, so Chinese is my major. Knowing kanji/hanzi definitely helps with learning Chinese/Japanese, but as far as remembering pronunciation I'm not so sure...

                            Oh, and remember: the thing that matters most in language learning is that you know more today than you knew yesterday!

                            side-eye-1

                          • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
                            ·
                            11 months ago

                            I'm from Norway

                            Samme her lenin-laugh

                            I know there's a handful of other norwegians here as well

            • forcequit [she/her]
              ·
              11 months ago

              I would like to redeem my Fuck The Dutch voucher on behalf of aussie-flag-emoji please