This move is going to make the community a lot less welcoming to queer folk, by virtue of being on .world alone. I don't know what rift between Ada and you let to that decision, but I think it's a big mistake. It feels especially bad for us members of this community not being involved in the decision making process at all, all the more if this has truly been "months in the making".

With that said: I strongly implore you to not lock down the community, and instead let a new mod team take over. Not having centralized decisions and power tripping mods is one of the big hopes I had for the fediverse, and this... feels really bad. It's not a bad thing to have several similar communities on different instances! Please don't destroy this one over personal grievances

I've seen the footage of the raid too, and I don't think we need UN experts to tell whether opening fire from an ambulance is a war crime

The one where he went to a protest to shoot people and then shot people?

To everyone in this thread who has nothing but insults for these activists, what are you doing against climate breakdown? Besides sitting on your couch, insulting people who are actually trying to make a difference, facing jail time?

You are the kind of people who would've called the Suffragettes names and said they're hurting the cause, as well.

Buy it yourself, get over 100, cash out

Yeah, what are they gonna do? Invade the Hague? That's absurd

Hague Invasion Act

oh...

that's why I only use my computer with raw system calls, shell is bloat

disappointing, try harder next time

He discovered his fursona! Good for him, good for him.

And we arrive back at the root of the problem: Capitalism! Who would've thought.

AI is a tool, and not inherently evil or good. But the current trend, that it is used to undercut human artists (and other workers, let's not pretend this is limited to artists anymore) is unequivocally bad.