It has been a problem in particular with runes, as they are heavily associated with neo-nazis to the point where at least Scandinavians often feel very uncomfortable around it. Some participants in the debate in Norway are praising the team for reclaiming the symbolism from the nazis.

I personally agree that we cannot surrender our historical legacy to nazis, and I think it's worth making active efforts to reclaim it. So I think this is a good thing, as long as the team also make sure to celebrate diversity and anti-fascism. I chose my user name here according to a similar logic.

"feel free to open a PR" - without any justification or discussion about the merit of issue at hand - is the standard passive-aggressive response from every developer who is not interested in making the change.

Man, the entitlement. Especially coming from the only person I know of who is here with the explicit goal of monetizing the platform.

There's a way of voicing concerns and criticisms in a way that is constructive, helpful, and in good faith, inviting to an open discussion with concerned parties. Yours is not that.

If youre still posting on Pixelfed maybe you could try following @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy, and ask people to follow you on Bluesky. That's a bit more familiar, and you might have a better change at their algorithm than that of Instagram.

I don't really have a real answer, sorry. Good luck!

In other news, PieFed is open for donations here. The price of a coffee every month would constitute a pretty significant increase in donations.

A Company that Makes Everything... And then scraps it for tax write-off.

Happy this will be making it to cinemas after all. Hopefully it'll be a labour of love. The fact that corporate clearly didn't care about it gives me hope.

I can't imagine how stressful it must have been to have a small hobby project you're devekoping for fun and then suddenly get the insane amount of traffic from the Reddit exodus over night without having been able to prepare for it at all. I was low key worried we killed him with stress.

Happy that's not the case.

I think engaging with people on a human level rather than giving unsolicited advice on how to use fediverse to every new face around could be a place to start. Half the time I see a new user here they seem to get flooded with technical advice that, while well-meaning, is somewhat off-putting.

A simple "Welcome! Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about how to make the most of your time here" is plenty for most people. And if they do ask questions, go wild.

Is there a good community in which newcommers can ask basic questions, like a fedi help desk community/no stupid questions fedi edition? I feel like that could be useful to point people to. Edit: Blaze linked !newcomers@piefed.zip in another comment.

Yeah, real moderation needs to happen on the instance level for sure. :)

When I said blocking here I meant in the meaning defederating.

On mastodon you'd mute users if you want them to still see your posts, and block them to cut them off. Not aure how that works on Lemmy, but I was referring to defederation. :)

Most of the fediverse runs on a blacklist, not a whitelist. This means that new instances are federated by default as a general rule, though content only travels through instances when it's requested by users in some way or another.

Blocking an instance is not much more work than banning a user, so in most cases it's not a huge problem to have to actively defederate from bad actors.

"I'm not even a nazi, but it sure is nice to see the fascists marching in the streets as a demonstration that free speech is truly alive and well"

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You can have this one for free.