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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I’m the one who posted the Lynn Conway article in Technology and, as a trans person, the pronoun use in the article immediately stuck out to me as archaic, but at the time of posting there were few other news articles about her passing available. I was hoping that by acknowledging that the pronoun use in the article (for at least somewhat justifiable reasons in this case) not being in line with modern reporting that we could move past that and keep the comments more on topic for the community it was posted in. No luck. But, of the comments I saw, even the ones that had bad takes, none seemed actively transphobic - they just lacked an understanding of how respectful and not confusing reporting on trans people could be done.

    It’s the Lia Thomas discussions that turned into a dumpster fire and in some cases had to be locked. :/




  • I think your tech suggestion is neat. I think your hope of a thriving Cleveland community on Lemmy is a bit too ambitious at the moment. I’m slightly active in the Minnesota and Twin Cities communities on here, but… they’re pretty quiet communities. The problem you run into is that most users on social media sites like this don’t post. Or they only comment. You need enough people to post so it’s not just one or two people feeling like they’re yelling into a void. The Twin Cities may be slightly smaller than Cleveland, but we’re actually interesting, lol.