Also, the red shield should be already federated I think, it may not be visible because mbin ui may not have added it yet, in case you want to confirm, you can check source for the raw comment (the json), it should have the tag somewhere

Thank you for understanding.

Again with the snarkiness. Did you even read it? They do not prefer to be reduced just down to their label, they more than that. I am not really interested in turning your opinion on me, and you clearly do not want to understand what I am saying. Also these are my personal opinions, not as moderators.

And for clarifications, if a mod wants to, they can check a box for the comment to "Speak as Moderator". For demonstrational purposes, i will do so for this comment.

no, I am mod, and this reply is just said as normal comment, if I had to say it as a moderator, i would have spoken other way. This was my opinion.

You are free to post any news, queer related or not. I particularly had problems with the title, and for more detailed explanation read other replies from others and me. As someone else said very concisely, my problem is that using labels is reductive. In my opinion the identity of rescuers is not that important. But someone else said that their opinion - "To me headline highlights the intersectionality and solidarity shown when of one group of historically oppressed people (refugees) is rescued by another group historically oppressed group (gay people)." which is perfectly valid. I think it is okay to have different viewpoints. If you disagree, please correct me.

Just to clarify - problem was not queer website, or someone posting about queer people. And whatever I said was my opinion.

Also from perspective who writes stuff (my domain is scientific articles, so may not directly apply) - Your title is the hook for article - and it is the photo of your product which goes in the catalog, and since catalogs have limited space - you can only put a finite amount of details in it, ideally the most enticing one. If you put "Gay" as the very first word in the title, this story (from the perspective of person just reading the title) would see this as the main element in story. This is again putting a label on them and their identity.

Sorry, but I have never heard of them (they are not big over where I live). From checking out there about page - they produce media related to LGBTQIA+. I dont have any strong opinionabout them, but If I extrapolate from the little bit that I got from there recommended articles on the linked page

56 celebrities you didn’t know are gay, bisexual or lesbian

this just seems like people who capitalise on people who are fans of these celebs, and also potentially LGBTQIA+ folks who may look upto them. I don't have any problem with latter, It is good to know about people who have a successfull carreer, but I do have problem with first (which has arguably a large audience - any celeb fan). I am in general not interested about any celebs and I dont like this kind of content.

Going to their homepage - I found politics. Mostly statements by US leaders (conservatives vs liberal) views on LGBTQIA+ folks and their rights. And there are other celebrity posts. I am not American, so I don't really care about them.

I am not going to reply to your snarkiness. Read my perspective here https://lemmy.world/comment/15354645

And your reply also over generalises my being from 2 words. I am not triggered by hearing gay - but maybe I am too. I have friend who is queer, but even they don't like that their description should start from them being queer. They would much rather prefer if you charecterise them by their name or work, and not just 1 part of identity.

I would also prefer if you would read my original comment again.

(overly emphasising on the gay part rather than the rescue part)

that was my whole point - how rescue does adding the word gay add to conversation - we might as well add there racial identity, ethiniicity and what not /s. Maybe using "bad light" was not appropriate wording - let me rephrase it better - we are focussing on wrong thing here - instead of focusing on rescue, we are focussing on the fact they are gay - I dont have problem with them being gay - but that is not the very fabric of their being is it. Whenever we try to put labels on people we ignore there lives as a whole and just focus on labels.

let my try to show my point of view from an example - just switching one wword from title

• Gay cruise rescues refugees adrift in Gulf of Mexico

• Indian cruise rescues refugees adrift in Gulf of Mexico

• American cruise rescues refugees adrift in Gulf of Mexico

• Alien cruise rescues refugees adrift in Gulf of Mexico

In any of these situations did the meaning really change. Just some part of identity of rescuers changed. Now from persepective of this community - Uplifiting news, what is the uplifting news - I am presuming - rescue happened. Does identity matter here.

Maybe I am wrong - then correct me - does the the identity matter here?

I am sorry, but why do we have to specify they are "gay cruise" - I am not against LGBTQIA+ folks, but I think one of the things for equality is proper acceptance, and mentioning gay cruise definitely puts a bad light on it (overly emphasising on theee gay part rather than the rescue part). And it also unnecessarily adds to the stereotypes (which I would not be explaining here). Not homophobeic, but i would have prefered if title would have been - A cruise rescues ...

Can you please make this (the one I am messaging with) a mod. I think my lemmings.world account did not get moderation (on my main account I am getting these messages for pending reports of moderation and this Lemmy currently doesn’t reliably federate reports to community moderators that are not on the community instance. Resolving reports is also not always federated across instances. For this reason we strongly recommend using at least a secondary account on the community instance to be able to reliably deal with reports.) I also tried to make this account mod from my main but that is not reflected back here (probably, whatever action i take as a mod on my main account does not get federated back to lemmy.world instance). So can you make this account a mod too?

this (the one I am commenting with now) is my alt account, I am also making it mod, because I was not getting reports on my main account