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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

We are idiots.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah no shit, it's all just bullshit lip service.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Don't bother, just make your own communities or magazines and contribute to them regularly.

"If you build it, they will come."

You can tell people about it if you like (especially if it comes up casually in conversation), but if you try to push it too hard you'll drive people away.

If the fediverse grows too quickly, it will also introduce more problems existing systems may not be able to handle.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (4 children)

"yall" is obviously not the problematic part of that sentence

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

That's how people use it, whether you like it or not. I did not invent the language, but that's how people use it.

Saying "guys" on its own is also not the same thing as "you guys" in regions that do this.

You can shoot the messenger all you like but it is what it is and I have no power over how people in a region use a language, I am merely informing you of that fact.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

high IQ

work for free

lmao, hard pass. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah I don't see that one going over well anywhere

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (20 children)

People where I am from call everyone "you guys" - men, women, trans, doesn't matter, everyone is just "you guys" even when it's a woman addressing a group of women.

The literal meaning isn't gender neutral, but in actual practice, it 100% is.

As for "y'all" or "you all", I don't see how it could possibly be interpreted as offensive to any gender.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

It means this is his last term, barring any changes to the law or extralegal shenanigans, period.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Give him a call and see!

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