Artists require an audience if they’re going to share their work - otherwise we might as well just hang our works up on our fridge and be done with it.

Lemmy is a very small audience at present.

I don’t think you really mean that, sweetheart. :)

“She’s never stated” to “Well she doesn’t REALLY mean it” lmao

Given Harris has never and has stated she will never call for a permanent ceasefire, I have no idea where you think your gotcha moment is here.

Do you people even try, or is honesty against the terms of your religion or something?

Oh yes, just like I’m sure she was being completely sincere when she said all Biden had to do to earn her vote was ‘call for a ceasefire’ within the coming year.

Turns out when MLs don’t say a single thing in good faith, people start remembering and stop taking them seriously. :)

“Marxism is when you make false claims about genocide in order to make a false equivocation between literal fascists and liberals, because to you both of those things are exactly the same.”

Hey, remember when you said you’d vote for the Dem candidate if Biden was replaced? How’s that going?

Most modern Marxists are supportive of “AES.”

Ah, it’s like the Bolsheviks being in the minority and declaring themselves the majority (literally what ‘Bolshevik’ means, while ‘Menshevik’, the actual majority, means minority) all over again.

No, I’m part metal. Helps to keep going longer than mere organics, but getting through the airport is a bitch.

More seriously, I take 2-4 times a day to grab some pics from my stashes and post them real quick on my regular communities. Takes maybe 15 minutes each time. 60 minutes every day is a good chunk, but it’s far from grueling.

Now, my FOMO causing me to check my notifications every moment I get free time? That’s a little more grotesque.

Know where to look to grab pics real quick + Light moderation load + Not many other hobbies + Work from home with downtime between tasks

I answer on AskHistorians, but don’t post there. But I’d love to see activity there too! Mostly I run three history meme communities (HistoryMemes, RoughRomanMemes, and ShermanPosting), and four communities for sharing historical images of interest (HistoryPorn [not my choice of name, it’s just for photos], HistoryIllustrations, HistoryRuins, and HistoryArtifacts)

No, no, the pipes are fine (mostly). They have calcium buildup that prevents lead leeching.

The REAL major source of lead poisoning in the Empire is much stupider - knowingly making wine syrup in lead pots because the lead makes it taste sweeter. Despite knowing that lead is toxic af.

There’s probably an apt comparison in that to Reddit as well.

Just wouldn’t want any newcomers to the history communities to up and think the place was dead! Lemmy cannot live on Linux alone 🙏

Speaking as a mod, even speaking as a mod who’s terminally online, we can’t have eyes everywhere at once. Somewhere, in the depths of the comment chains, we always miss something, or skim over it. Reporting isn’t adding to our work load (generally), it’s a great help. You shouldn’t hesitate to report anything that seems like it breaks the rules/expresses bigotry.

Of all the stupid, bigoted dogshit flung around by Hexbear, outright transphobia generally is not one of them.

It may be more effective to bring it up to the moderators of the individual communities where you’ve seen it. Also, generous use of the report button.

What do the X and Y Axis represent?

A neat idea. How do we decide who goes where though?

Regardless, many of us who didn’t use Tumblr for NSFW content left in solidarity with NSFW content creators, curators, and consumers. There was a very progressive attitude on Tumblr, and trying to impose puritan content restrictions to lure more advertisers didn’t sit well with the culture that had been established on Tumblr.

Remember when Verizon paid a billion dollars to ruin Tumblr and get a fraction of that back for it?