SorteKanin @ SorteKanin @feddit.dk

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A lot of those people would be correct :)

I think you're retroactively reinterpreting your vague phrasing, but whatever dude. I don't think that particular post has anything to do with it.

That's four months ago. Unfortunate that they didn't call for more urgent help after that. But I suppose it's too late now.

Because a couple weeks ago, the lemm.ee crew made a post asking for donations

They didn't, that was a post asking to donate to lemmy, the software.

You cannot possibly convice me that didn’t somehow influence this decision to shutdown the instance.

I can because it's completely irrelevant, and what stopped this instance seems to have nothing to do with the development, but rather to do with the amount of volunteers and their work load.

No, that post is a request from the lemm.ee admins to donate to Lemmy, the software. Not to donate to lemm.ee. You're talking about the same post.

It's possible that lemm.ee grew too fast for its own good. Also possible that it lacked an "identity" as it was very general purpose. Certain instances attract users that behave better. Perhaps lemm.ee did not (no shade on anyone, just speculating).

I don't think it has to be like that. We can discuss things while still being positive. Ideally discussions aren't about disagreements only, but understanding, seeing things from other's perspective, finding middle grounds and so on.

I would hope that the users would not go immediately to lemmy.world, but rather other instances. But you may be right unfortunately

Sad to hear of your problems, but thank you for the time you did put into it! Nothing lasts forever but that doesn't mean it wasn't worthwhile.

Yes, actually.

Link? Just out of curiosity.

... They are literally saying they don't have admins/mods enough. You want to strain your mods? Allowing comments on that sort of post is how you do that.

It may also be relevant to note that content from lemm.ee will not be deleteable once they go offline. If you are a user on lemm.ee and there is any content at all that you may at some point in the future want to delete, now is the time.

I guess this is a nice test of the migration feature for a lot of users :)

Well that's sudden and unexpected. Was there any calls for admins? I'm sort of surprised that lemm.ee couldn't find enough volunteers with their sizable user base.

What does forking have to do with this instance shutdown? They were lacking admins for running the instance, not developers.

Yea, I'm really surprised as well. Was there any build up to this? Any calls for help?

What do you think the overlap is in two groups of outliers?

Well, seeing as people with abnormal sex genes may have an advantage in competitive women's sports, you would actually expect to see a significant amount of that "outlier" group in the group of top athletes, as there is a selection happening. You're right that if you chose independently at random from people who are top athletes and people who have abnormal sex genes, the overlap would be incredibly small. But sports is not a random selection at all. At the top of sports, even the smallest advantage means the difference between winning and losing, so even small variations (like those caused by abnormal sex genes) may give significant advantages (perhaps even "unfair" advantages).

Sure, but do you think that’s the test they’re doing?

I mean they state right there what kind of test they are doing (but perhaps you didn't read it or missed that part?):

all athletes over the age of 18 that want to participate in a World Boxing owned or sanctioned competition will need to undergo a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) genetic test to determine their sex at birth and their eligibility to compete.

The PCR test is a laboratory technique used to detect specific genetic material, in this case the SRY gene, that reveals the presence of the Y chromosome, which is an indicator of biological sex. The test can be a be conducted by nasal/mouth swab, saliva or blood.

So they are testing for the presence of the Y chromosome. Not sure if that covers any of the questions you asked there but presumably no. But again, we must draw the line somewhere and "presence of the Y chromosome" doesn't seem to be an unreasonable way to determine that line - at the very least it sounds like a very unambiguous way to draw the line. But I am not an expert so I won't speak with any confidence about this.

That's a nice infographic, but must we not draw a vertical line somewhere on that spectrum to say what is allowed in women's sport? It seems unreasonable to allow everything on the spectrum as women's sports would be dominated by people from the male end of the spectrum.

How is this bullying not moderated? That just seems weird. I've always felt Mastodon kinda fails at moderation in this aspect. He should go to Lemmy instead.