Icytrees

joined 9 months ago
[–] Icytrees@lemmy.today 10 points 9 months ago

I don't think much of it unless it's an unsolicited opinion.

Some guys do it to signal they're not down with unfair beauty standards for women. Misguided, but their heart's in the right place.

Otherwise it's not much different from how I always say "I like a man in sweatervest."

[–] Icytrees@lemmy.today 2 points 9 months ago

Thank you but I regret everything. But thank you.

[–] Icytrees@lemmy.today 6 points 9 months ago

I had to amend my will because of this.

If my corpse doesn't get shoved into the crematorium slathered in dorito juice I'm gonna screech cosmic truths in the nightmares of my loved ones.

[–] Icytrees@lemmy.today 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm talking (mostly) out of my ass here, but it's probably because calling them "child sex dolls" might be seen to normalize the concept of sex with children. Since AI child porn is illegal, makes sense that a child sex doll is, too.

edit: Looks like there's a thing in Australian law where they are legally considered sexual abuse material.

[–] Icytrees@lemmy.today 4 points 9 months ago

I don't think either of us are saying it should happen. It was more of a tongue in cheek joke about how paedophiles are being used to justify censorship, identity politics and restrict freedoms.

I'm too lazy to look it up at the moment but some governments were looking into ways to tag everything made on a 3D printer so it could be traced back to an owner, but that was because of ghost guns. I don't agree with that, either.

[–] Icytrees@lemmy.today 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Downvoting doesn't bother me. Feels like you took a hard left with this whole "If you're thin-skinned, then leave" thing.

I like to see downvotes, they show me if people hate something versus not being interested. If someone is downvoting everything, the community isn't for them. Opinions and disagreement are good, trolling is not.

I'm definitely not going out of my way to conduct unpaid market research about it.

[–] Icytrees@lemmy.today 3 points 9 months ago

This is a good point. I used to share a studio with an entrepreneur who 3D scanned people's parts to make home printed molds for custom candles.

[–] Icytrees@lemmy.today 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Where did you find these wolves? So I can avoid them.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Icytrees@lemmy.today to c/moderators@lemmy.world
 

Hi!

I'm a new mod. I have two fresh coms on two instances, things have been pretty smooth.

I thought about banning when I noticed about half of my posts were being downvoted by the same user with no upvotes or engagement. I'm waiting to see if it continues, so I'm not banning them yet.

Next, I was clicking around in the Connect app trying to figure it out when it froze and I somehow banned myself from my own community. The admin here at Lemmy.Today helped me out pretty quick.

So my questions are:

Is it possible to ban someone without a post or comment, and how?

Do you think chronic downvoting is a good reason to ban someone?

How do you unban a user? Follow up, is this a good reason to make an alternate mod account just in case?

What are some of your reasons for banning people, and why?

I found a lot of great information on moderating in general, but almost nothing on how to do things. Are there any resources I might have missed?

[–] Icytrees@lemmy.today 7 points 9 months ago (5 children)

With manufacturing becoming more decentralized it's only a matter of time before people can print their own.

It'll probably be used as a reason to license and monitor 3D printers.

[–] Icytrees@lemmy.today 9 points 9 months ago

Don't get me started on paedo bait anime.

I used to help moderate a porn app, had to leave for my own sanity. Got hard to tell if I was blocking legit perverts or people so isolated and brain rotted they forgot what an adult woman was supposed to look like. Too much darkness either way.

[–] Icytrees@lemmy.today 23 points 9 months ago (21 children)

More information from Australia, if anyone's as morbidly curious as I was. Do not click unless you crave depression.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/child-sex-dolls-sold-on-temu-and-shein/105636720?future=true

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Icytrees@lemmy.today to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
 

Independent Media

I made an "almost anything goes" community for all things journalism a short while ago. So, this is a more serious community that only posts news, reports and editorials from independent journalists and publications. A lot of news media is owned by the same big corps, so this is an effort to expose more diverse perspectives.

Being in North America means most of my media has a western bias, but I make an effort to seek out independent, quality publications from around the world to diversify the feed. Anyone can post to this community with articles from anywhere, as long as it fits the spirit of independent journalism.

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