@lynnesbian

and just to add to this, the w.l rules say "no ace discourse" which reads to me "if you're ace, please don't mention it, talk about your experiences, or defend yourself"

@spookcentral @lynnesbian ... wooooooooow. I uh. Gosh. If there’s one thing I hate about the Tumblr exodus, it’s the “Ace People Are Trenders” sort of discourse that spread like the plague from Kaffa

people: *complain about w.l's theme being difficult to understand*
anna:
people with clout: *complain about w.l's theme being difficult to understand*
anna: i'll get right on it, i'll pay for a new, more accessible theme to be created immediately

people: *explains why you shouldn't be blindly taking out your rage on pleroma*
anna: fuck off nazi
people with clout: *explains why you shouldn't be blindly taking out your rage on pleroma*
anna: i've created a pleroma instance to atone for my sins and will try to
steer the consensus in the right direction

when i (person with clout) explained to anna that using the w.l theme without attributing the creators was a violation of the AGPL, she fixed it right away. i wonder what would have happened if someone with less followers had asked the same? more importantly, what will be the next fuckup that requires an #influencer to step in?

with all of this shit in mind...

should i unblock witches.live? https://www.strawpoll.me/17454546

(you can reply to elaborate on why if you'd like)

dreading the results of this because i think i already know what they're going to be

two votes so far and one of them is me

i know i shouldn't expect this to get a huge response in five minutes but i just want this to be done with

@lynnesbian
Lynne, if there's one thing I've learnt about popular votes like that it's this. the majority of people more or less never vote for exclusion, outside of extreme cases.

I used to do flat majoritarian votes on banning in my old discord. and you know what? only like 1/10 votes would ever be for the ban, the vast majority were just apathetic on the issues, and then would not care to actively say yes to a banning as it's actively a thing to cut people out of something. so what did I do? I just stopped having votes.

now, I know you're an anarchist but, I'd say not everything needs to be voted on, especially when it comes to your own online experience. you already know my position on w.l, I will respect yours no matter what you chose

@CornishRepublicanArmy yeah i know but i can't decide this for myself because im a namby pamby

@lynnesbian I'd say that blocking Anna seems enough, and as this is your main community cutting out one of the biggest instances in our corner of the fediverse hampers that for you probably. most w.l users aren't 'bad people' who you don't get on with, I was there for instance (ok, bad example in my case). but I'm not you, and I will never be you, when you say that it makes you uncomfortable to see the instance name and such I just have to take it at face value that it's a problem for you and I'll respect that

@lynnesbian anna is an abusive tankie piece of shit.

@lynnesbian I think people generally want all their friends to be friends and can get pushy about dropping existing grievances. I think it's wrong to try to push your friends' boundaries even if you think they're wrong to believe something. So my position is "do what makes you comfortable, don't think you have to expand your boundaries for anyone else."

@aeveltstra @lynnesbian same tbh

@aeveltstra @lynnesbian I wonder if my federation experiment will be the next :thonking:

@lynnesbian

I'm giving you an ultimatum:

- unblock witches.live, or
- don't unblock witches.live

(you are allowed to change your answer as many times as you wish in the future)

but you have to stop letting this take up so much of your processing power