Does anyone else have multiple accounts while looking for new reddit alts? So far I’ve got accounts on Lemmy, kbin, and Squabbles and I’ve been lurking on Raddle, Sqwok, and Tildes from the outside.
Also, man, that sentence is just the most 2023 statement ever. “Raddle” … “Sqwok” … “Lemmy” … None of these sound like real things. What even is this timeline we’re in…
I tried Raddle and the people there are crazy. I gave it a fair chance but even calling someone “he” is seen as an attack because I didn’t instruct myself “whether or not the person wanted to be called he or she or they”. This is the hill they are dying on.
I tried lemmy and the big problem is that people are attracted to the most populated subs, namely the subs hosted on lemmy.ml, which is administrated by the crazy chinese. It doesn’t matter if you register yourself on beehaw, you will still talk on lemmy.ml, and when you are banned because you said “Taiwan number one” or because you insulted Putin, then you are out of the biggest channels. You can still talk on your own server, sure, but you will talk in a ghost town. The federation model has a limit. This is why we should populate Kbin and not jump on the lemmy.ml ship when the cloudflare component is eventually removed. Build here, stay here.
I don’t want to start a war here, and I don’t have the context of what you experienced over there. Perhaps they did go too far. But if you don’t know the gender of someone, it is indeed incorrect to assume “he” is OK. That’s inclusion 101: don’t assume things about people. There is a commonly accepted solution to this problem, used e.g. in the academic peer review world where the reviewer is anonymous, which is to default to “they”. That’s a good habit to take, costs nothing, and helps (particularly) women feel included. That’s a hill I’d happily die on.
Even then some people throw their toys out because they believe “they” assumes a person is non-binary. “They” as a singular pronoun for someone of unknown gender has existed since at least the 16th century.
Speaking about assuming things about people, don’t assume everyone is an English native. In some other languages there is no gender-neutral equivalent and instead the normal and expected way to address a stranger is by using male pronouns. Reacting aggressively instead of just politely correcting someone is the difference between making someone have a positive or a negative opinion on a given topic.
They aren’t in your face about the tankie stuff on lemmy.ml but when it comes out holy shit. There was one thread discussing bans for “orientalism” where people were going on about westerners being racist without any hint of irony (that was also where I found out the .ml stands for Marxism–Leninism). I deleted my account there straight away.
At least with lemmygrad.ml you know what you’re getting into…
Why are Marxist Leninist so pro-China anyway? Like doesn’t China practice heavy capitalism and have a crap load of billionaires? Not very marxist there. Nor is their insistence on horrible worker rights and disallowing trade unions.
Seems like a lie that it’s “ML”
I think for many it’s a case of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. USA bad therefore China good.
You also see it when tankies disguss the current Russian war. There’s not so much justifying the actual invasion as there is whataboutism about the West.