Luckily I haven’t been exposed to much of that behaviour on my local instance. Which instances/communities are you finding all these jerks at? (I’ve blocked a couple for unrelated reasons so maybe I’m not seeing them.)

There’s also some element that “alternative sites” tend to accumulate the people banned from the primary site. Luckily the strong left-leaning initial crowd kept most of the bigotry at bay during the formative years, but I really dislike that in general-purpose instances, many have failed to create much original culture distinct from reddit. Lemmy isn’t reddit, and that can be a good thing.

Real-space example: a women’s-only art installation/lounge. It was only a matter of time before it went to court. I think at one point they (perhaps jokingly) proposed converting it to a bathroom to allow legal discrimination. (and that still wouldn’t be the smelliest exhibition in Mona)

https://mona.net.au/stuff-to-do/art/the-ladies-lounge

Perhaps not the best example but one to start joggin’ the noggin: it can be a weak point to start an attack your local network, if someone is adjacent (like standing in range of your WiFi). Obviously not a likely scenario to most people reading, especially since HTTPS became normalised, but a reason to keep security in the discussion for local home networks.

They both prevented people driving while intoxicated, they’re goddamn heroes!

Our union organisers openly say that, despite most managers being given explicit anti-union chilling off-the-record, managers up to a certain grade are covered by our contracts and have an immediate interest in standing with us. There are already a few lower managers and HR staff as members, which is sometimes useful.

I’m not resistant to AI or LLMs.

Surely you can understand why people assume you are, when you say unnuanced lines like: “AI is fascism. full stop.” , “with AI, all roads lead to fascism.”