Looks like my account was banned/restricted for the above interaction, have already sent the mods on world an email asking if they’d be willing to reverse that. Had an episode of psychosis a few months ago where I did say some offensive stuff, (understandably) got a 3 month ban on .lol for that, so could see my account having been flagged.
I uh, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect people to check others profiles to ensure we are correctly pronouning them… when making a throw away comment that is less than 10 words involving a ludicrously common saying. Jerboa does not show users pronouns. I could switch to an app that DOES show the pronouns, do any Lemmings have a recommendation for a free Lemmy mobile app that has that feature?
Edit: Edie chimed in, Jerboa does show pronouns. It’s a formatting issue with mobile vs browser (She has them on individual text lines so they don’t appear on mobile).
Was just going to respond to the user in question to let them know I wasn’t purposefully trying to offend that individual, to discover I’m not able to post or make comments on world now, so figured I’d see what y’alls opinion on the matter is.
Guess again, young one 😂
The toxicity you see when they raid other instances is just the tip of the iceberg. They have created an incubator for hatred in that server and any lovely people were driven away long ago. Would lovely people consistently support and upvote calls for indiscriminate violence, glorifying murderers, denying crimes against humanity, etc? I should hope not.
It’s very sad because initially they probably came with good intentions as leftists. But the hexbear echo chamber warps their perspective and convinces them to adopt positions that run counter to common human decency. Any purportedly leftist space that actively and ruthlessly suppresses healthy intellectual debate should be viewed with extreme suspicion.
It’s quite plausible that they have been co-opted by foreign agents wishing to destabilize western democracies. It would explain their pathological obsession with the Palestinian conflict, the Russian invasion, idolizing the CCP, and trying to convince people not to vote for Kamala. Basically every position that they take is counterproductive in the extreme, and it’s unclear whether they do so simply because they’re myopic idiots or if there is also some direct foreign influence at play.