No worries, and thank you for your service! If it wasn’t for people like you, this place would just be instance drama and news articles about Elon Musk.

No, it was changed to facilitate ‘remove content’, but it still issues community bans even if you don’t click that, example:

https://feddit.uk/modlog?userId=7672732 (Ignore the SJW bans up first)

Which ones? The biggest difference I saw from the ones I checked is about 10 seconds, which I think can reasonably be chalked up to the DB being busy or some other software weirdness.

He also has a weird quirk of banning someone from the instance entirely and then banning from the community as well.

This is a Lemmy quirk, instance bans also send out bans for all communities a person has interacted with on an instance.

They’re included in the source code.

A conservative forum is a forum run by conservatives for conservatives and limits itself to conservative positions

Says who?! It can mean whatever you define it to mean. You’re just making stuff up, you’re no authority.

It’s almost like I was saying what I mean by conservative forum.

It seems you’ve changed your tune:

1. In response to the question “The instance is never an appropriate context and any such discussion whatsoever is prohibited?”: “Yes, …

It certainly looks like that when you cut my response off.

I’m done with this discussion, you’re not engaging in good faith and what you want from this place stands at odds with what the majority of feddit.uk’s users want this place to be. There has always been action on bigotry, you failing to notice doesn’t mean this place was ever some free speech absolutist debate club.

Is this a reaction to the new TOS?

A conservative forum is a forum run by conservatives for conservatives and limits itself to conservative positions, feddit.uk is demonstrably not this. Feddit.uk is not many things, it’s not a conservative forum, it’s not a socialist forum, it’s not a biking forum. It’s a general purpose discussion forum that can touch on topics like conservativism, socialism or biking. This is a descriptive not prescriptive statement and I don’t see how a reasonable person would describe this place differently. I’m not going to list all the things this place is not as that’s an infinity long list.

Again, this place has always had rules on what isn’t allowed, including ‘no transphobia’. Polite bigotry is still bigotry, do you think we should allow race realists if they mind their Ps and Qs correctly? There are many who feel their bigotry — weather that be racism, sexism, homophobia — isn’t ‘unreasonable’, but even tolerant Britain doesn’t let them inject these believes wherever, social spaces like pubs and community events still limit what can take place in them. I don’t see why we should be more accepting of transphobia just because it’s more socially acceptable at the moment.

‘Philosophical discussion of trans issues’ is such a non-statment, say what you actually mean instead of hiding behind such meaningless rhetoric. The only things these guidelines ask you to do is not promote fear or hatred of trans people and that you aren’t allowed to say that a trans person’s gender identity is less valid than a cis person’s. These aren’t unreasonable asks and I wonder what reasonable ‘philosophical discussion’ this excludes, unless you’re just looking for ‘civil’ ways of calling a trans man a woman.

Call me a dinosaur, but I actually prefer written reviews. Like, I don’t need 20 minutes+ of talking about something to know if I should buy it or not.

One channel I will shout out though is Graeldon because I think the gimmick of reviewing every Steam game in alphabetical order is quite funny.

conservatives aren’t welcome.

That’s a very dishonest reading of what I wrote, but not surprising coming from you. This not being a conservative forum isn’t the same as conservatives not being welcome, I believe we even have some around. But they still have to follow the rules.

This is getting very tiresome for what is a very little ask, don’t be transphobic. This has been a rule on the site literally from inception.

As MPs, Adrian and I are already speaking out in parliament every day, challenging injustice and bringing the voice of grassroots campaigns into the parliamentary system. We’re insurgents with integrity, campaigners with a platform in the Commons.

The most prominent thing Ramsay has done since getting elected is getting in the news for some stupid take against pylons. One of the most important things a Green Party leader should be concerned with is getting the Greens into the national conversation, and Ramsay is just either incapable or unwilling to do the work to actually do that.

We believe the Green party can and must take on Reform and win. Not by aping the divisive “populist” rhetoric of Farage, but by connecting with the broadest possible range of people and showing that Green policies embody their aspirations for a fairer country and a livable future.

Reform have managed to get more seats in 7 years as the Greens have got in 34, and are projected to gain hundreds of seats at the next election while the Greens projected gains are ~2. But sure, it’s the Greens who will have a pivotal say if the next Parliament is hung.

Now you’re just moving the goal posts. You claimed the article was AI generated and assumed it was talking about a separate entity also called Matrix, when neither of those things are true. I also didn’t ‘just quote something’, I quoted the above article.

But fine:

• Web3 and Automattic funding;
• Status.im funding.

Oh for sure, Fallout 3 Geoguesser would be hard. Idk, I just never had a problem navigating them, even if they were a bit samey.

The article shortens venture capital to VC. It also didn’t confuse the Matrix Foundation with a VC firm of the same name, it’s talking about Element (formerly Riot). Like, the article says this in pretty simple English, I’m genuinely confused how you could’ve missed it:

In roughly the beginning, there was two organizations that came out of the project: The Matrix Foundation and New Vector Ltd / Riot / Element. The idea was for New Vector Ltd to carry out the necessary work and bring in the necessary funding for the Matrix Foundation to thrive. Or well, so I’ve been told.

They had multiple funding rounds lead by the likes of status.im, Automattic, the AI and Web3 company protocol labs and others; You get the gist, lots of VC and similar funding also a questionable amount of “Web3” and bullshit generation AI. Element was then tasked with using that to build the software that would power Matrix.

You’d really think people would look at the state of the world and try to wash their hands of responsibility, not take credit. Just how out of touch is Mr child exploitation.

It’s a small comfort that even Twitter is giving this take the reception it deserves.

Comparing women to a chatbot is definitely derogatory to the chatbot from capital-G Gamers, so even the most exaggerated joke is running hard against Poe’s law.

Fallout 3. The criticism is absolutely fair*, but it was the first RPG I ever played and I’m still very fond of it.

* I never got the ‘metros are hard to navigate’ criticism, I never had that issues. Most of them are pretty linear.

The Luddites weren’t replaced either though? Factories still needed labour and much of what the Luddites were rallying against was the idea of being pressed into prison-like factory work. Much of how gen AI is being applied is to deskill workers so they can be exploited more in much the same way that machines like the power loom was used to deskill textile workers.

Damn, you’re fast. The upgrade itself went fine, but Hetzner decided to throttle the speed to our backup to <3MB, so pushing the DB backup took an hour. We’re currently doing the pictrs backup and that’s going to take forever.

Also, the backend version number seems to have messed up? Not sure why that is, but should be an easy fix once I track it down.

Edit: version number seems to be derived from the git tag. Doesn’t seem worth to bring it down again to fix it.

I upgraded https://sappho.social/ without issue, but now I’ve said that something is definitely going to go wrong. Sod’s law and all that.