Thank you!

I haven't reported because I don't even know how to. Consider this my report.

But this seems like a big inconsistence. Did you even see the posts? How's that for a case-by-case basis? What is a case bad enough? If this doesn't do it, I don't know what would.

It's a shame, it was such a nice instance for science topics. But the admin makes the instance. I will move elsewhere.

It's the fact that it's not even relaxing. It's just there, in mild dread.

You're such an active user that at the beginning I thought it was your instance, and your presence here makes this place very active and interesting. I agree it'd be quite easy to associate you with mander as one and the same.

I take meds and I will never fold. Best I can do is actually doing the laundry.

I deleted my posts but not my account so that I can keep deleting them.

This is just a teaser and I'm looking forward to the finished images.

However it always amazes me how disappointingly non-detailed pictures of planets can be even on the most powerful telescopes. Because they're that far away! It takes something like Cassini going all the way there to give us a better look.

That said, the most powerful view of Saturn for me was the one I saw with my own eyes through a local telescope. It was just a little blurry thing but just actually seeing it there with the ring shape with my own eyes was indescribable.

I had to thin a clump of tomato plants this morning and actually yelped "so sorry!" as I did it. It's ridiculous. And I'm currently procrastinating on separating the paprika plants because I have to recover first.

The instance I'm on is for science! mander.xyz

I am playing it right now! It was at 20% sale a few days ago. Don't know if it'll get even more discounted later.

It is nearly perfect for the deck. I only have a small grievance with moving things in the inventory. It takes a long while to step through the slots. But maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Good to think about though. I read somewhere that the compost should be at least 1 cubic meter to have any chance of reaching a high enough temperature; my garden compost is at least that big. But I do still refrain from adding diseased things, or invasive plants.

When I thin my plants it tends to be because I've planted too many seeds at once for example. A lot of the times I separate them instead, but I don't need that many plants to risk separation.

You're basically telling us "if you don't like it then leave", and yeah, sure, we're not hostages here. We chose to be here and we can choose to leave. Leaving is no big deal on its own, I have accounts on other instances. I have the technical skills to start my own instance, just other reasons why I won't. I could even leave Lemmy altogether and my life would carry on. I'm still commenting here because I'm also stubborn I guess.

My current thought is that people should have a choice over how they experience the fediverse

Absolutely, but note that the if you don't like it then leave also goes for any other instance, including places like exploding-heads. We're not proposing to exclude individuals that cannot help being who they are. They are there because they actively choose to be, and stand for whatever is happening there. Again, what is the value in keeping that contact open?

You cannot be a neutral actor, this is impossible. With every decision you make, you're making a stand, in one way or another, even by inaction. Even if you don't mean or realize it, you are implicitly standing for the values of the places you're too afraid to block, over the values of many of your users who are already here, discussing this. You indicate that you can't admin a community of vulnerable people, but who is vulnerable? Who is not vulnerable? What kind of people are you looking for? If we were to make an instance that curates federation with others, you would call that restricted, but aren't you actually restricting this place to a specific kind of people?

This is literally the paradox of tolerance.

The condition is clear, and I have stated it. I do not want another instance to create a problem for users minding their own business browsing Locally. If I were to receive many user reports - and I mean reports of specific content - I may also take action even if these are not Local.

What would you consider a problem? What is the kind of specific content that would make you act? Because at this point I'm believing that even if we report something, you might think "it's not a big deal", "sorry you feel offended but they didn't break any rules", etc. You mention that you've never experienced harassment, and you haven't seen it? How would you react to an user reporting harassment if you don't believe it's harassment?

I'm not trying to change your mind, but maybe give something to think about. As I said, leaving this place is not a big deal.

This actually sounds like a good way to deal with it.

Using the compost does make it a little better. I also try to think of the clump as a single plant that I'm pruning, which to be fair I also do very hesitantly.

Tunic is also on my wishlist. Crossing fingers!

It's always jarring when people expect something like reddit and find something else that looks almost like it, but it's actually different. It helps to get reminders that it's not reddit and it doesn't have to be. And that this is actually a good thing.

For me, it helps that I'm old and used to spend time in forums with small communities, but for younger people this may never have been a thing. It's a little exciting to think about someone being exposed to it for the first time, if they stay long enough to see the benefits.

I like the part about how this is not meant to be a resilient information exchange. protocol. I also do see the ability to defederate as a very useful tool rather than an jnstrument of censorship.

Yes, that sounds really demoralizing. :( I don't know how you did it.

Interesting. I wish they sold this in Sweden. Best I can get is a product containing sulphur, but it's not very cheap.

This is already pretty wild, before I even got to this part:

By way of control, the authors turn to the work of Professor von Frey and Dr Rivers studies the characteristics of sensation on Dr Head's glans penis.

Ohh such a nice stand and such growth!