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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • If two consenting adult intelligence feral or monster characters are banging, I don’t see the problem. It’s weird if it’s a human and one. Extra weird if they’re juveniles. I find the argument over furries having too many animal characteristics a little dumb as they’re animals with human traits… Some walk upright, some wear clothes, others only shirts, some are more animal-like and others are more human-like.

    Simba, Robin Hood, Judy Hopps, Balto, Pinkie Pie, and the Wolf from Shrek are all furries. Some act more like wild animals. Some act more like humans with clothes and jobs. Some only wear clothes sometimes. All of them are enculturated adults and can consent with other like creatures.

    I’ve lately seen people nitpicking these details, and at this point, it seems some people won’t be pleased with NSFW furry art unless there are no animal characteristics whatsoever. So then it would be art of humans and not furries at all.






  • I’ll believe it when I see it. I work with (not for) Amazon every day at my job and they are miserable e-commerce partners. One change in a code that suddenly and wrongly flags your entire international product offerings and pulls them? Good luck begging the teams of bots to “help” you.

    With Amazon you don’t even have the power to handle your own legitimate brand’s data management – changes to our listings go through maybe 20% of the time-- but somehow ASIN hijackers can make wild and dangerous changes to them with little issue. Not only that, but Amazon buttfucks you with fees on top of fees, like FBA fees we pay to entrust them to handle our products and returns well, but are wasted as our products are often stolen, broken, or return scammed.

    If you can help it and you like not crying in the bathroom at work, avoid Amazon.



  • I think it’s fine with small communities that very few people visit and interact with. In that case, it’s usually someone that likes to share about the niche hobby or fandom they enjoy learning about and spending time on. The bigger problems start happening when you get a bunch of users, or the moderators go on a power trip, or there is infighting, etc. I used to volunteer for a very small subreddit-- I wrote the CSS because I love visual design, basic rules because you don’t want the like 5 visitors you get to be assholes, etc. I did it because it was a tiny community on a topic I was autistically interested in and I genuinely love learning and teaching about things I enjoy.

    Life got in the way and I left, coming back a couple years later to see things had snowballed into a moderator team that staged a coup against its other half, wild infighting in the community, and people power tripping just because they could. Thank goodness I could remember the subreddit as it used to be when I built it.

    But I do want to say that I believe this is a problem with any platform, Lemmy included. That’s both the ugly and beautiful thing about community moderation… you can have wonderful and friendly experiences, or you can be beholden to the rule of the most abrasive dickheads you’ve met.