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@Ox @lucy I think a lot of that depends on who you follow. I made the mistake of setting my Fediverse instance up to relay freespeechextremist. Pleroma is buggy so I can't undo that, now. As a result, my feed is full of 70-somethings railing about how we need to deport all the darkies. That'd be me.
@lucy it means that fedi can be intimidating for women when they read the onslaught of general misogyny from a lot of users. if you favour the free speech side of fedi the majority of users appear to be men in the tech field or with interest in tech. I hope to make it more welcoming for women in particular who may find that intimidating.
@lucy I also I like to be a friendly face for women new here so they know it's not just tech bros
@lucy there's a notable difference in the amount of misogyny and sexism I receive when it's blatant I'm a woman. when I used other pictures I was treated differently. I would rather know straight up who is a sexist and who isn't
and stop showing faces, if I'd want to see people I would leave my fucking room.
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@Lainyboy @baraposter @realcaseyrollins oh they also explicitly state that they will collect virtually any/all data they can get off you using the website including, when available, location data
@Lainyboy @baraposter @realcaseyrollins they also say that if they lose your data or "mishandle" it or experience a data breach that they're not responsible and you can't hold them liable

i don't know how much of this would actually hold up in a court since you can't just make a contract that says anything you want it to say…but this is all in their user agreement and privacy policy
@baraposter @Lainyboy @realcaseyrollins they also have in their user agreement that by posting any content to their website they automatically get a world-wide royalty free license to use, modify, or otherwise monetize your content and distribute it to their partners

Fuck it, I'm calling it. Marketwatch probably qualifies as fake news.
In a story about how there are actually 20 million covid infected in USA, they claim the CDC came up with the number, but there's no link to a CDC statement, there's no source to anything anywhere!

Why the fuck are people trusting this site for science news!

Source of story that got me annoyed:
marketwatch.com/story/cdc-20-m

Who could have expected more black lives would be lost by defunding the police so that only the wealthy could afford security?

‘Defund The Police’: NYC Shootings EXPLODE Amid Disbanding Of Anti-Crime Units, Reassignment Of Hundreds Of Officers

As calls from the Left intensify to abolish the police, and New York City takes action to remove officers and dismantle vital anti-crime units, the city that never sleeps surged in gun violence by a stunning 358% since this time last year. “It has been nearly a quarter century since New York City experienced as […]

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Oh cool, they added the lines back in GitHub's file list. The hover bug is still there, though
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