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  • Piefed has a few extra features that I like and I know that the couple features that are currently missing are on their way. The development team is pretty quick to respond which doesn’t affect me a ton but I don’t want to support a shitty dev team. Which then lines up with the third big reason, the Lemmy devs are transphobic assholes. If I’m going to be posting a lot then I don’t want to be doing it using what they made.

    Also Fxomt is convincing.




  • I’m an idiot and it’s hard to explain but this announcement explains it pretty easily.

    It functions on the fediverse, just like Lemmy, but is a different platform/front end. They function damn near identically but Piefed has a more active development team that actually responds to requests and a dev team that isn’t transphobic as hell. That’s the selling point for me. I think the only feature that’s not available on Piefed that I use pretty often is being able to paste images into text blocks. Fairly sure they’re working on that too. You can upload them, there’s a clicky for it, but it just won’t automatically upload and paste the link like it does on Lemmy. Literally the only thing “missing” that I’ve noticed.





  • I have no love for religion when it has killed people in my community and when it has been used to spit hate in my face, as a gay man, on a constant basis throughout my life. I am certainly not going to be respecting one of their 10 Commandments in not taking the lords name in vain when they don’t respect the commandments in loving thy neighbor. I do not respect a religion that does not respect me. It is as simple as that. This is a two way street and the oppressed and scapegoated minority is definitely not the one who should make the first move. Especially when “Do not take the lords name in vain” could be applied to a trillion other things, such as using the Lords name to justify support for a party of hateful bigots that stand antithetical to everything the bible claims Jesus to be. Wanna make clear, I’m talking about religion as a whole there and not specifically religious people. It’s just hard to reconcile as a gay guy.

    I wrote Rule 1, it doesn’t really apply here because Jesus Christ is a generalized swear. It’s not used as an anti-Christian epithet. It’s not used as a form of hate speech in regards to the religion or the people who use it. It’s an expression of extreme surprise. It wasn’t used in regards to Christians or in specific to them. Didn’t attack them, didn’t question them, didn’t refer to them. I said two words that have been used in this capacity for at least 200 years.

    Lastly, the title is just quoting a movie. “Jesus Christ, it’s Jason Bourne.” And that’s one of the primary reasons why I definitely don’t care about using the phrase. There aren’t really any protections for it in media outside of normal swearing. It’s been adopted into the main stream as an expression of frustration. Religion has little to do with it anymore.