Not who you're asking, but I wouldn't have wanted to be born cis

Me. Before I transitioned, and in my early days of transition, sure, I'd have made that choice if it were available to me. But now, years in? Fuck no. I don't want to be cis.

What is going on with your moral compass that you believe that sometimes, funding bigots doesn't make you a shitty person, yet also lets you believe that disagreeing with you on that issue topic is enough to qualify someone as a shitty person?

If you can make an exception for people funding Rowling, you can make space for them disagreeing with you, without pretending that they're the problem

This story is literally a story about someone following your "advice". A trans man used the bathroom transphobes would legally require him to use. Phobes melted down. Hurled slurs at him, threw him to the ground, screaming, yelling etc. The trans man got arrested.

The phobes weren't "proven to be pathetic". The phobes were empowered, because they got someone they hate arrested, despite that person doing nothing wrong. The trans man, following the law though, ended up in gaol overnight, was legally barred from entering that bar again, and got a fine for disorderly behaviour.

Your advice just gets trans people hurt, and does nothing to the phobes except empower them. It's easy to offer advice from the sidelines, when to you it's all just about the purity of the idea. But your idea is worse than useless. It's actively harmful.

Apologies if this question comes off as insulting, but just to confirm, if you're shooting manual, when you adjust the ISO to keep the exposure value the same right? The photo you've got there looks slightly underexposed to me

That being said, assuming you are keeping the exposure value equal, then conventional wisdom says that you get slightly less contrast (including colour contrast) with a wide open aperture. So if you set the ISO faster, and don't change your shutter speed, your aperture will be smaller, and you should be getting more colour contrast.

On top of that, each lens has its own "sweet spot" where it gives you the best image quality (sharpness, contrast, saturation etc) generally but not always somewhere around f/8.

So if you haven't already, true adjusting your ISO to 160, and getting your aperture as close to f/8 as you can, and adjust the shutter speed to achieve that.

So, it turns out that PieFed has instance staff that exist between community mod and admin!

No lo creo. Al menos, mi novia nunca dice nada de eso

It sounds like a similar situation I had learning Spanish. In english, I'd say "It's hot". In Spanish, that's "Hace calor", which translated literally means "makes heat". And it was strange to me because I wanted to know what was meant to be making this heat

That's a good idea!

At the moment, we have the ability to take our eyes off of things for a while. Because applicants are screened, we don't get many bigots or spammers getting through. And our mod bot allows trusted users to ban and delete all content from new accounts (whether they're local or remote). So we have trusted users that can watch for new people joining and then act on any bigoted ones that do slip through the cracks.

So whilst I wouldn't feel comfortable taking my eyes off of things for a week or more, I feel quite comfortable not looking at lemmy for a day or two. We've travelled several times since spinning the instance up, and even then, checking in once every couple of days has been enough to keep on top of things with the tools we have.

Which is not to say we don't need to do anything else. The real vulnerability at the moment is if Kaity or I go involuntarily inactive for a longer period of time for some reason. But until we have "server moderators" as an option, I'm not sure how to develop the rapport required to bring additional admins on. It's not not simply a matter of trusting someone, but also ensuring that they share the same vision for what this space is and what it should be, and at the moment, there are very few avenues to do that. I know from experience that bringing instance level moderators on in our other spaces that do support them, such as sharkey and matrix has been challenging to say the least, so it's something we need to take particular care with.

If I could add an instance level moderator that didn't have full admin permissions, I'd do so in a heart beat. As it is though, it's hard to trust the keys to the castle when the only avenue for building trust is lemmy interactions.

That being said, we do have a bot admin that trusted users have access to, that Kaity developed, which helps us deal with spammers and throwaway bigot accounts.

Also, we don't actually have that much going on in terms of moderation workload. Our sign ups are manually approved, but our bot helps with that so it's not all on me. Our large communities have active mods. So I'm lucky if I have to look at more than 3 or 4 reports a day.

Also, if we ever reach the burnout point, we would hand the community over before taking it down.

this is why lemmy will never beat corporate owned services

Which famously, never shut down and take their content with them :P

You create the community on another instance. You update the lemm.ee version with a sticky post and sidebar edit to let people know the new location. Do that before lemm.ee closes down, and even people that find the lemm.ee version of the group after the instance is gone will still be able to find your new location

Multiple tattoos! I used to have multiple piercings as well, but they all ultimately rejected, so now I have none

Well, the managed communities will pin posts and update their descriptions before the shut down happens, and those details will federate to every instance with users that subscribe to the communities.

Mas or menos B1 cuando escribiendo y A2 cuando escuchando hispohablantes nativos

Estoy aprendiendo espanol, y cuando no recuerdo una palabra o frase en espanol, I will just use English instead. No estoy seguro si esto is the same :P

By setting expectations.

You're all adults, and you're all here to have fun. If you go and read the adventures and walk through everything with no surprises or challenges, then as the DM, I'm not having fun, and won't keep doing it. If you steal the limelight from other players with your "secret knowledge", they're not going to have fun.

So if you're going to read it, great, but use the power wisely, so as to not undermine the spirit of the game.

Truth be told, I didn't want to kick off more drama by making a big announcement about it. I respect the stance they've taken and the work they've put in to it! So we've reconnected :)