First Majestic Comet @ FirstMajesticComet @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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They exited on mutual agreement I guess

Well technically not mutual agreement until/unless we also defederate from them. Which I still am in support of.

I think we should still consider defederating them, in case they change their mind later and decide to come back and harass us (they've been known to engage in this sort of behavior). Honestly I just heard about this before I came on but I have heard drama from Hexbear in the past and in all honesty even if they do defederate I'm all for mutual defederation.

One of them made a post on Egg_irl with Astolfo which seems to be almost saying that they think Femboys and GNC are just trans girls in denial. Really didn't sit well with me since I know that that kind of think is very hurtful to Femboys and has been very hurtful to me as well as an Agender.

Bro I was eating when I scrolled passed this 🤮

Seriously there's something really gross about someone drinking/eating their own milk like that.

This, definitely only use paper meant for smoking. I tried using newspaper a while back and it was awful.

Honestly though I don't really smoke it anymore, I prefer edibles since Smoking is rather unpleasant in general for me (and does still hurt your lungs and gums, even if it's not tobacco).

The fact that you are assuming someone wants to use Tor on Lemmy to do something illegal shows that you have fallen prey to the idea that Tor itself is illegal or meant for illegal activity, it's the driving force behind many of the pushes to block Tor or even to attempt to extinguish it.

Fact of the matter is Tor is a tool, a tool that like any is not inherently evil or illegal. Tor's purpose also isn't to facilitate illegal activity, its purpose is to provide privacy and anonymity to people who want it. It sounds to me like you have been listening to a lot of those "scary" deep web videos or assuming people use Tor for those reasons and not for legitimate privacy and security reasons, (like for example did you know that Lemmy doesn't proxy images?). This is one thing I really hate about those types of content, they portray the idea of privacy and security as if it's evil or nefarious, or that the idea of hosting your own hidden service is creepy or wrong, it's really gross actually, all for clicks and views, but they push it as if it's real, it's harmful to services like Lemmy which are currently outside of the mainstream and probably are associated with Dark web contend just by virtue of not being Big tech products, for a while I'd heard similar stories about linux too (people talked about how linux is for criminals, glad that one didn't catch on).

TL;DR you shouldn't be assuming that people want to use Tor (a privacy and security tool) for nefarious or evil purposes due to it's reputation with nontechnical people, especially when those people are known for spreading misleading or even wrong information about the subject itself.

block the porn communities or disable NSFW, that's what I did (at least before lemmy.blahaj.zone defederated from them)

It's not a load problem though, it's because some loser is DDoSing the server. Doesn't hurt to move to other instances where it isn't happening but the real solution would be to find who's doing this so they can be brought to justice (or silenced from the internet forever, whichever is easier).

Please tell others to stop misrepresenting this issue, it is an attack, not a user overload problem and nobody who's misrepresenting it that way is doing anyone any favors except the attackers by presenting it as such. Instead it should be presented as what it is.

And to those that think it only comes from men, I’ve been in the receiving end of that kind of crap from both men and women in my life.

I've gotten it from both, especially teachers in school. "Riley why are you crying, see this is what I'm telling you, you're clearly not a boy, boys don't cry that much". My school was interesting because they were trying to be ""trans-inclusive"" but ended up pushing toxic gender stereotypes onto people. They also were enbyphobic too (didn't believe in or care about NonBinary gender).

That is true, although in the early days (when they started being a thing in the late 70s) video games were something meant for the whole family, not just for the boys/kids and they were usually marketed to the family.

I wish they would honestly stop with the Toxic masculinity and gender stereotypes, boys can and should be kind and compassionate and also be taught that self care is important, not be scolded for doing these things. Strange that we live in a world where being a boy who takes care of themselves causes you to get shit for it.

Luckily things seem to be changing for the better in recent times.

There used to be some weird elitism that "video games are for boys" or something dumb like that. I'm not sure why maybe it was based on the subjects in video games but it's not as mainstream today as it used to be in the early 2000s, nowadays it's pretty widely accepted that gaming is typically gender neutral, or at least masc-neutral.

I know they require them, it's is the way that they're implemented that I'm referring to. Like they made it deliberately frustrating. Some of them one a few websites even pop up twice or even three times and you have to click them multiple times to get them to go down.

I don't care what anyone says I still think this style is cool and I'm 27 years old. Maybe it's an Enby/Agender thing though, I don't know.

I used to think they weren't that bad, that they just had some bad users coming there but I just checked back and yeah, they've really gone to shit. Definitely de-federate them, their admin either isn't available to do what he needs to do or doesn't care, we need to protect our communities and our people from the assholes on there.

I think it might have something to do with the fact that much of Europe has privacy laws that protect their citizens and also makes it so people running nodes there don't have to kiss up to US companies. Hence why they block those nodes or just give them a huge amount of challenges to solve in hopes to frustrate them. Same with how they put annoying privacy pop-ups on the website in European locations which re-appear every time you login or visit the site.

There are no words to describe what a shitty person this is. I bet he's also a scab in the current Reddit protests trying to kiss up to spez for some crappy Reddit merch.

Not giving up my penis, I need it so I can pee properly (while standing).

In my experience it's a bit slower but not by much, I usually only access text based websites over Tor though with minimal images, streaming over YouTube can be horribly slow but it's generally worked okay for me.

Might also be a good idea to use something like Ublock origin and Portmaster as well, don't just try to curate ad targeting, block them, if you want to still support websites you can use something like adnauseam which clicks the ads.

I'm not trying to say that Tor isn't a good idea because they should be blocking ads, I think more people should absolutely use it for better anonymous browsing, I only bring up ad blockers because if people don't want to be targeted ads they should be blocking them.

Bonus: Add anti-adblock filters to ad-block, it helps significantly with sites that try to detect them, also spam and malware filters are essential.