inasaba @ inasaba @lemmy.ml

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Male as default is archaic and misogynist. I expected better.

We are here.

Okay but this is literally the racist usage of the word.

They're not the only ones calling y'all out. Stop defending using racist terms.

It means ACAB: "all cops are bastards."

I was also very disappointed that the users there voted against the change. The name has a bad history, and there's no better time to change a community name than when you make a move to a new platform.

This isn't neatly as big of a change, though. I don't think a poll should be needed. The mods should just take a stance against racism and enforce that the term not be used.

"Polished," "tweaked," or if we want to reclaim a term from the crafters, "bedazzled."

Thank you for making this post. The number of times I've seen the term used here lately has been bothering me.

It's also racist in car culture.

I'm not responding to any more comments on this, but it's evident that a lot of you have never lived through a wildfire. All of the resources you need get centralized on local news sites (like Castanet for Kelowna) in a way that makes it easy to figure out what's happening. Many of the updates that local officials broadcast daily never get transcribed or posted anywhere except for local news sites such as that.

No, but it acted as a way for people to share links to legitimate news in times of crisis if that was where they normally communicated, and now they can't. Similarly, people got used to accessing Twitter to find realtime information on local events, and now that's also largely cut off.

I'm not defending the companies. I'm not defending people's dependence on them. I'm pointing out that the need exists in this moment, and that this isn't the moment to be shaming people who are actively fleeing a wildfire for decrying the fact that governments' and corporations' choices are impacting their ability to share information in a crisis.

I don't use Facebook, but many affected by the wildfires do.

It's very hard to find the resources. The government sites are not SEO optimized, the URLs change, sometimes there's better info on local news websites. People are trying to share these vital resources with one another on social networks that already exist, and are finding that they cannot. In a time of crisis, you can't quickly set up another network on a different platform. Many people don't even know about better platforms.

Just don't watch video on data.

While technically true, more than ¾ of it goes to animal agriculture.

I have 200mb of data and it turns off when I run out. If I ever get caught in an emergency, I'm screwed.

Plus, half the time their website seems to crash.

It is. (Full article may not load on mobile, sorry.)

That's a bit of a silly rule for a federated space like Lemmy. Just because someone is on a different instance doesn't mean they don't participate in a community on this instance and want to have a say in its future. If one of the communities I subscribed to on another instance had an ableism problem, I would want to be able to speak out against that.

I am not going to debate over semantics with you.

One wonders why you won't answer.