eldavi

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 hours ago

Honestly, I think there’s a missed opportunity for integrating information resources into ban messages and/or the global rules pages, because I guarantee more than half the people getting banned for sinophobia/xenophobia/orientalism sincerely don’t think anything they said was racist or chauvanistic - it’s often reiterating normal rhetoric and ““established facts”” in mass media; not a sign of reactionary attitude. The least we can do is give them a learning opportunity instead of simply pushing them further from the labour movement

very true and add something like this to moderation actions as well.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

latine originates in south america and does the same thing that latinx does; but doesn't carry the divisiveness of latinx because of that origin. (ie latinx is usually fine with americans who are latino; but latinos who aren't american, or are newly american, sometimes don't like it because it feels like cultural appropriation to anglicize a clearly spanish word that identifies them).

also: latino and latina does not include people who don't identify as either and is also cumbersome in english when you want to use inclusive language; latine gets rid of all of that.

and i'm also old and decrepit; i still keep defaulting to latino too.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

i think that dead internet is another form of enshitification that's more common on platforms that are backed by significant financing. eg reddit, facebook, bluesky, etc.

anecdotally: your experience gets richer on social media if you avoid platforms that describe itself as "general interest" or with investors behind it since both have an interest in trying to attract as many people as possible rather than letting people's interest organically lead them to your platform; lemmy was a great example of this before the reddit enshitification.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago

The biggest issue w Latinx seems to be with its undeniably American origin and pronunciation; Latine avoids both and nothing shuts down a desire to educate a "gringo" or "pocho" better than when you educate them on their culture.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's so much better when other people build the things I need because they actually get done instead of just making due w an inferior alternative. Lol

thank you for making me aware of it.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Yes and I hope that it can have more mileage than Latinx since it's origin isn't American and the old Latino/a is bit too exclusive and cumbersome for my tastes.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

It worked and I wonder if someone in the trump campaign was trolling everyone knowing that the democrats were barely bothering in Spanish media.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 16 hours ago

It made me lazy since they got everything to work out of the box. Lol

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago

Yes, as far as they're allowed to in this country

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago

They've been able to figure it out so far

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (4 children)

Latine or Latinx are correct but theyre loaded words like "woke" is except it goes beyond conservativism and into cultural divisions that disqualify you in the eyes of new & non-americans that aren't yet familiar enough to understand American pop culture.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 25 points 18 hours ago (10 children)

elive

you think a distribution that automatically includes all the proprietary stuff that we use baked into the distro would be more popular since it makes linux ready to go for most people; but it still gets fewer than 300 clicks per month.

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