Has Miez always liked belly scritches? Most sources say cats don’t like being pet on their belly, but Miez seems to love it

Adorable. I like sound of kitties snoring

<3

It’d be nice if a feature like this got fast-tracked, because I see this a notable limitation to the Lemmy platform. As an instance, growing in size and maintaining an identity/brand butt heads. Ideally, you’d host whatever people want to contribute that is legal and cool, but you might also want to highlight certain content. “Local - hosted” and “Local - favourites” feeds, or something like that, might work

Arthur is soo cute!

Agreed. I updated to Firefox 127 and that fixed it. Thank you!

I haven’t used github before. I reluctantly updated FireFox to 127 (it was previously 109) and that fixed it. Thanks again =)

Thanks! I recreated this issue with Safari and with lemmy.ml on both browsers. I think it’s an issue with 0.19.4 interacting with something on my end, as I don’t have the issue on any instance that isn’t on 0.19.4 (and no other user seems to be affected). As a stop-gap solution, I’ve setup an account on beehaw.org. (Edit: another stop-gap solution: https://old.lemmy.ca/)

Thank you, you’ve been very generous with your time and I don’t want to take any more of it up. I tried cache clearing, private window, computer restart. I have one non-lemmy.ca account (lemmynsfw.com). I can view lemmy.ca communities fine from my nsfw account and there are no issues in general, but directly using lemmy.ca and using my lemmy.ca account no longer work (as described above). This stuff is beyond my comprehension but if it’s only affecting me (which it seems to be based on the lack of other reports) than it’s hardly an problem for the instance

Thanks for the report!

Thanks, Shadow! That didn’t work unfortunately, but if this is just a me thing, I can deal with it. I don’t have the most up-to-date version of FF, which could be part of the issue

I can’t select a different feed or select sort options on community/feed pages or posts

I use the web version on FireFox. I’ve been experiencing these issues for about 12 hours (some time following the upgrade to 0.19.4). It doesn’t matter if I’m signed in or not - Lemmy.ca is pretty unusable. I’m not experiencing this with other instances. Is anyone else experiencing this?

I was going to create a post about this, but I can’t post either. As soon as my cursor leaves the title or body fields, the text in those fields disappears

There are hundreds of legal documents from around the world (with a fair amount of consistency) that we could use to define hate speech with legal precision. Overton window is a political concept a few decades old that is not without its criticism. “It’s all relative” doesn’t meaningfully apply here.

Hearing your thoughts has given me ideas on how personal characteristics relate to a preference of leaning in favour of removing content over protecting free speech. So, I appreciate the dialogue. You might enjoy this related paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2210666120

We can agree to disagree. I don’t want to see any policing of an Overton window on Lemmy. I just want hate speech and credibly malicious actors removed

Beyond the main issue that this thinly-veiled propaganda community is going to attract the wrong audience and expose the existing/future audience here to utter bullshit, I take specific issue that the end goal is to undermine the security of our fucking country.

If everyone on Lemmy thought in such broad, sensationalist strokes and/or identified as a passive consumer of information, then maybe gatekeeping acceptable and unacceptable ideas above and beyond hate speech might make sense (as it might on FB and other mainstream social media platform).

Personally, I don’t need information to be censored to help me identify truth. I take great pride and responsibility in my critical thinking skills. If the range of ideas acceptable to post on Lemmy were restricted to those acceptable to our mainstream media, this would cease being an intellectually engaging platform.

I really hope we don’t need to put up the same kind of cognitive bumpers on here as on other platforms because our userbase lacks critical thinking skills. But the more users who abdicate responsibility for critical thinking, the more we’ll be pushed in that direction

I don’t think the lemmy.ca admins or most of it’s users want the instance to take on the responsibility/experience of being an instance where there’s a prescribed view of acceptable and unacceptable (banned) content, above and beyond objectively objectionable stuff. Curb appeal as an argument doesn’t sway me. But if curb appeal or who we’re attracting is a concern, I’d point out that most of the posts in that community are very downvoted, so to some extent Lemmy’s existing checks and balances are working as intended to limit newcomers’ exposure to a less popular community

Pickle toy. Pillow by the window. Kaia’s living well

So cute <3

Your comments about anti censorship in the past have helped me form my thoughts about what makes the most sense on Lemmy. Banning certain ideas here that aren’t hateful or malicious is not a decision that should be taken lightly.

Reminding people that they can ban communities and users is a good idea.

I imagine there could be a pre-existing taxonomy for online moderation of what’s misinformation vs low-quality posts vs hate speech that we might be able to use. If I find something useful, I’ll share it.

I don’t know if there’s any value to this, but would a stickied thread about the community in question where people can hopefully describe their objections a little better help? Like, what beyond being pro-Russian and having low-quality information do you find problematic with the community? Is deception involved? If the content is just YT videos that others (ie, not the community mod) have created, I don’t see that as deception. Even though I would block it, I wouldn’t be in favour of banning a pro-Donald Trump community (as an example).

If 50, 75, or 90% of users on an instance block a community, would that hinder moderation to catch instances of misinformation that did pop up? (I’m just asking as some have raised that as a concern, and I don’t know if that’s legitimate or not)

I use the web interface. The block button is at the top right of a community’s page. If you use an app it might be in a slightly different place