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  • … and are keeping the hate to the appropriate boards (X, I believe it’s called nowadays). Should we contract his work and apply it where applicable?

    There is no “appropriate board” for hate speech, whether it’s antisemitism, transphobia, or anything else. If you wouldn’t want someone to be a nazi in your office, why would you pay them if you know they’re a nazi somewhere else? Is it fine as long as it’s someone else’s problem?

    On another level, if you had to pay a developer, and you have reason to think they might donate the money you give them to an antisemitic cause, or directly use it to fund their own antisemitism, would you still want to give them that money? Or maybe look elsewhere, even if it means getting something slightly worse?




  • Zangoose@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRowling rule
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    5 days ago

    The 3 worst ones that immediately came to my head were Kingsley Shacklebolt (he’s Black), Cho Chang (she’s East Asian), and the Patil twins (they’re Indian). I’m sure there are others that are just as bad though, alongside the numerous other stereotypes in the stories (the house elves, the goblins, etc.).

    I read those books as a child and then a few years ago I rewatched some of the movies and realized how awful the subliminal messaging is.








  • Zangoose@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldHappy #GlobalSwitchDay
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    1 month ago

    Signal is private in that other people can’t intercept your messages, including signal. The signal app is open-source so you can be relatively certain it’s not tracking your decrypted messages, unlike closed-source apps like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger or any other private social media.

    Signal is not anonymous from an account standpoint, because you need a phone number to sign up, even if you can choose not to display it in your account.


  • I’d say it is (was? It’s been ~a year and a half since I used it consistently but I’m guessing it hasn’t changed too much since then) moderately left by US standards but definitely not progressive left - you don’t have to go very far to find thinly-veiled sexism/racism/homophobia, though that might just be because a large portion of the people there are terminally online in a bad way. That being said, there are definitely also communities ranging from conservative to hardcore conservative as well but I actively tried to avoid those so I didn’t really see them in my feeds. The same is true with progressive communities but they tended to drift away from being actually progressive once they got to a certain size.