I really don’t like the idea of citing this study. It’s always this same one from the 90s, and if it were acurate I expect the results would have been reproduced more. It’s also not clear that the results indicate what the paper says. There’s other reasons than sexual arousal that could explain the results. It could be they’re imagining the scenario and are axious or disgusted by it. There’s this paper that indicates homophobia is usually caused by fear or hate.

I don’t like the idea of putting the blame for homophobia on closeted queer people. It’s seems extremely likely to me that most homophobic people are straight, since most people are straight. Also we should respect other people’s own identification instead of trying to force labels on people, even if they’re bigots.

I think he’s literally talking about investing in fediverse companies, which I guess isn’t really any better.

That’s at a very different level. With dot social it’s about a quarter of the active users on the fediverse, whereas bluesky is probably something like 95% centralized in practice. It seems to keep improving, but right now it’s basically impossible to use without mostly interacting with bsky.

Usually comms is short for communications, but I think it’s fine in context.

It’s an interesting project, but NodeBB and Discourse have been working on adding activitypub support, so people who prefer bb style forums will probably use those. I don’t think they integrate that well with lemmy yet, but I think it’s being worked on.

Recycling rates are low, but I wouldn’t quite call it a myth. There’s a lot of materials that get lumped together as ‘plastic’, that each have to be handled differently.

Some are relatively non-toxic and easily recycled. More can be, but aren’t profitable without incentives. Some are very toxic, and recycling those are difficult. Then there’s a lot of rarer types that make it hard to collect and sort. There’s also mixed materials, where it’s hard to separate the plastic to recycle.

Generally everyone should be minimizing plastics, but check how they’re handled locally so you know what’s recylable.

Also all the debris burning up on reentry. With starlink they want to have 42k satellites, each designed to only last 5 years. So that’d be about 2 tons of aluminum added to the atmosphere every day.

I want to add that it’s not just the idea of equality, it’s also an analytical framework and a social movement. Feminism includes ways to understand patriarchal systems, as well as methods of dismantling them.

🤟I like you for who you are.

I rarely use them myself, but I find emojis linguistically fascinating. There’s a lot of subtleties with sarcastic, ironic, or symbolic emojis, as well as different subcultures that use them differently.

You might want to check out mbin or piefed. They both handle hashtags better than lemmy, which mostly just ignores hashtags other than the community name.

Matrix has spaces, which are collections of rooms.

There’s also XMPP. It’s not quite the same as discord, but it’s another federated chat protocol.

It’s not federated, but revolt.chat is probably the closest open source discord alternative.

The’re not meaningless. There’s plenty of stronger strategies if you can coordinate them, but protests are still useful, and easier to get people started on.

Even if it doesn’t have an immediate effect, protests help get people connected and organized. They find others in their area they can work with, and groups learn to coordinate with each other better. It can inspire people seeing how many others agree with them, and get them more active and engaged.

Pixelfed has more than 100,000 active users, about 5 times what it was 6 months ago, so I wouldn’t really call it dead. And with the fediverse, pixelfed and mastodon can talk to each other, so even on less active platforms you can connect with millions of other people. Most of the accounts I follow on pixelfed are from mastodon.

It reminded me of Iji.

There’s pinetta that’s inspired by pinterest, but the repo hasn’t been updated in a couple years.

There’s this playlist from donoteat01 explaining city planning using Cities Skylines.

I’m not sure about a bridge, but there’s some services like friendica and hubzilla that can speak both protocols.

There’s hundreds of other contributers, but he started them all and did the bulk of the work. The plan is to have more regular developers if they get enough donations.

They had other non-watch monitors first based on raspberry pi. I think they just kept the name for branding.

That watch sounds like an interesting project. Have you heard of the HealthyPi Move? It’s a open hardware watch with a bunch of biometrics, so maybe there’s something in the design or code you could use.

Have they been using AI art? All of their art that I’ve noticed has been from David Revoy.

And it’s a fairly small open source project that only started working on the phone app last year. It’s not that surprising they haven’t gotten apps for every platform yet.