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:
Me with the "I'm gonna use Kbin because Lemmy's developed by a tankie" to "I'm gonna use Blåhaj because Kbin can't moderate transphobia" to "I'm gonna use Hexbear because Blåhaj can't moderate ableism" pipeline
I am happy to report that this is the only online community I've ever been in where a minority of the userbase can raise issues and get them dealt with. it took some struggle the first time but we're very proud of the strong anti-bigotry stance we've collectively settled on, made all the stronger because it comes out of users, mods, and admins doing self-crit when these issues are brought forward.
One of us one of us
Tankie is a bullshit term anyways, in the end all that means is that we'll militantly defend one another and fight for a better world instead of rolling over and allowing norms and civility to bog us down in reactionary quagmire.
I know the term was originally used to refer to rolling tanks into Belarus, but like 90% of people on this site's parents weren't even born when that happened so nah.
Just know that sometimes you need to exercise power to protect yourself, and the way we do it here is very much "mass line" style where the users dictate action to the moderation and administration teams. With the role of administrators and moderators being to defend the community from reactionaries and step in to resolve internal conflict in the most democratic way possible.
I thought it was rolling tanks into Hungary...?
Hey I'm drunk and they happened when my grandparents were 20, but you're right.
You'll get some discussion about that if your want it, but most of our positions come from the history of revolution in the global South and how revolutionaries survived the onslaught of Western Capital.
The USSR is dead, their ideas live on in ever evolving forms in the revolutions sparked after 1917 and 1940. There is no dogmatic position we can take when the position of the global proletariat is in constant flux and the revolutionary avenues available in nation states vary so much.
Being drunk is no excuse for bad geography, mister!
It's sad because my day job is looking at maps all day, I'll do better in the future
y'all getting paid for this when i do it for free??
(i just like maps, i think they're neat)
Definitely get into QGIS or pick up an ArcGIS personal license if you haven't. Playing around with open data can be really fun and they both have scripting languages that let you build really complex and beautiful dynamic maps. If you can find a data source that live updates you can even publish it somewhere and use it to keep track of stuff. Or do things like import your phones GPX history and build a network of locations and your visit density or whatever.
What sort of a job is that?
Telecommunications/OSP Designer. We draw the maps for the Internet. Mostly getting fiber optic service to cities and towns in the US.
It's fun, but also exhausting. Were the ones that have to handle all the changes and what the permit office wants is always different from what the customer wants which is always different from what the contractor wants and all of them request materials that aren't in stock lol.
Hopefully in a month or two "I'm gonna use Lemmygrad because Lemmy's developed by a tankie"