Now do bibi.

But why the need to paint Christian states as somehow better? Isn’t it secularism that changed social attitudes? Christian churches were not supportive of equal rights for LGBT folks either (for the vast majority of churches, anyway). It’s still not safe to walk down the street holding hands with your gay partner in many supposedly civilised western countries.

The picture is not as black and white as you claim. And the reason many western countries eventually accepted LGBT folks wasn’t because Christianity is more accommodating of those views, it was because of the separation of church and state, and increasing secularization of those countries.

You are defending Islam against it’s homophobia and are grossly downplaying how it kills gay men, directly and indirectly.

Nobody denies that some muslims are homophobic, or that many muslim-majority states have homophobic laws and practices. They do.

The problem with your argument, though, is that many christian- and buddhist-majority countries also have similar homophobic laws and practices.

In fact, there are more christian-majority countries with homophobic laws than any other religion. Roughly illustrated above, yellow is christian-majority, orange is muslim-majority and green is buddhist majority.

By implying the problem is with islam in particular, rather than religion in general, you are behaving like an islamaphobe.

Hate crime and lynching that leads to murders of the LGBT community is not at all something rare in the muslim world.

This is also true of many non-muslim countries. If you have credible figures that demonstrate a higher murder rate of lgbtqi+ folks in muslim countries vs non-muslim countries then please provide at least some evidence, or withdraw your claim, because right now it seems to be based on nothing but anti-muslim vibes.

but [^some] muslims oppose the removal of those laws with religious outrage.

As do many modern day north american anglicans, basptists, church of christ, pentacostals, presbyterians, nazarenes, and evangelicals. Catholic / christian missionaries are also directly responsible for converting entire populations to be homophobic bigots across Africa and other former colonies.

And how many millions of Africans died over the past ~45 years due to the church opposing the promotion of condom use during the HIV/AIDS crisis?

I despise homophobia in all its forms, but it simply isn’t true that the muslim religion is somehow worse than all the others.

who are you, the ghost of xmas past?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis

Didnt realise this meme was about voting

Update: Real-Debrid’s parent company, XT Network, responded shortly after we published this article. The company explained that the current situation is unrelated to the corporate restructuring. At the same time, it confirms that it indeed uses filters to block content. […]

The filtering actions it has taken are a response to keyword lists provided by trusted flaggers, which is in accordance with Article 16 of the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Nah it looks like they just caved to the copyright mafia.

Apparently, so long as someone isn’t openly anti-AI, it’s ok to use bigoted language towards them. This is, sadly, pretty standard fare for the typical liberal, who is perfectly happy to descend into homophobia or transphobia if it means they can use it to mock their their political opponents.

I can assure you that neither Mia nor anyone else thought Rimu would respond to a simple wording change to promote inclusivity as some sort of insult.

Seriously, that’s your takeaway? That Mia provoked the ban by asking politely for a simple wording change? It’s ptb all the way. I’ve never met a developer more hostile to the opinions of his own user base.

But “some control over modlog visibility” is inevitably going to be abused to protect problematic mods and admins. A right of reply, or a context field added to the modlog record would be a better approach, where subsequent actions can be listed and clarified. It’s also kind of amazing he just went ahead with these changes without broad consultation with piefed users or admins, or with the wider fediverse, since it effectively break normal federation.

If we go down to the core of the issue, there’s a fundamental disagreement between some instances on a niche use case: can the modlog be used for permanent slander, without giving people the option to reply?

To be fair, that is more a function of the modlog technical design in Lemmy, where ban reasons cannot be changed after the fact and federated out. It is not technically possible to provide a “right of reply” or to remove the comment from the modlog in either piefed or lemmy.

What we did do is talk to the folks who banned Rimu and MrKaplan, asked them not to do it again, and reversed the bans. And the admin who was involved also stepped down from his admin role. That’s about as much as could be reasonably expected to happen, given the technical limitations. And afaik Rimu never asked to be unbanned, that was simply an act of good faith on our part.

And despite all the effort we put in to smooth things over, Rimu has consistently refused to engage in good faith with any of our admins over this, instead spreading intentional falsehoods and drama-farming over multiple posts.

These recent changes to PieFed were simply a blatant extension of his kneejerk response to the whole situation. Instead of building useful functionality like a right of reply such as we have in fediseer, his approach is just to shadow ban our instance and break proper federation of mod logs for all PieFed instances.

These actions are not designed to protect users, they are designed to protect the fragile-egos of power tripping admins who will seemingly go to any lengths to censor criticism of their actions, whether those criticisms are legitimate or not. It’s childish behavior, and demonstrates Rimu has little commitment to the wider fediverse and the principles of transparency under which it operates.

To heap insult on top of injury, Rimu has now unilaterally, and without any notification (to anyone it would appear), chosen to silently suppress anarchist.nexus and quokk.au from appearing in the PieFed.Social instance chooser. So, just more of the same old trolling and drama farming from him that we have been getting for weeks now.

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That screenshot is gold.

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