Tonuka

Well yeah, that's what being overwhelmed means

eh, kinda? Decentralisation means one instance can learn from the failures of another, and there's bo one thing that can bring the entire Fediverse down. But that's a worst case scenario.

What I fear is this: A spike of interest in the fediverse leads to many instances being overwhelmed, and the general newbie experience quickly turns many people away, leading to lots of people leaving with a sour taste. In the meantime, instances successfully adapt and new ones spring up, but most users aren't coming back.

Imo that's a more realistic scenario than some grandiose failure, and you could say it's already happened several times.

Hey, I don't know you and I don't know how much you depend on the Internet for your social safety net, but it might be good to take this as a cue to step back from social media a bit, at least the discussion of politics

yeah that's true lol. I have a backlog of tumblr screenshots that I found funny or thought provoking from before I joined Lemmy. I'm probably gonna go through those on !curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works and !tumblr@lemmy.world (those are the biggest right?)

I need context

Yo is that the same guy from your last post

The old testament is by definition also part of the christian bible lol. I get what you mean, there's also a book called the jewish bible, but clearly that's not what they meant

God I love social progress. Looking forward to when I can frown at how puritan the 2000-2030s were

I can't remember the title but that's pretty much the same plot as the first english romance novel ever written.

It "makes sense" considering the honor-shame society the story was created for. A pure, pious woman is pitted against a shameful, violent man. The central motif is the radiant woman purifying the shameful man who converts (to Christianity) and courts the woman according to social norms instead of violently raping her. This is framed as a good ending because his shame is removed.

If you value innocence over honor this is completely incomprehensible. The guilt is still there, it was never accounted for.

Edit: Oh, and Marry-your-rapist-laws were and are still more common than you might know. Even if countries that don't have one, individual courts may still decide that way.

Well you have to wonder if at a support so high Wikimedia couldn't skip the "fight and win" stage to earn some goodwill which might get them more favourable terms. In open confrontation, everyone loses. Takes energy away from everything else and generates a ton of bad publicity.

Post text be like "we're worried kittenz may be a tankie" meanwhile the attached screenshots are all "I'm an unironic tankie I use that word to describe myself I'm not a tankie but I love the USSR I think using tanks to crush dissent is good"

Yeah I think you maybe did the right thing

I'm afraid of posting my favorite tumblr screenshots because I'm scared people won't give a shit and Jessica is here with the 2k note oneliners. I may be stupid