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The transphobia stops now

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Why? A lot of people, like myself, have reclaimed it and use it to describe themselves. As long as it's not used in a negative or derogatory way, like as an insult or name calling, I don't see the problem?

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[META] The lemm.ee instance that this community is hosted on will go down at the end of June 2025

Damn! :( That seriously sucks. I feel for the burned out admins and totally understand why they can't do it anymore. (The shitheads in the world have contributed to my own burnout, too.)

Thanks for posting here letting us know. I hope this community and other cool ones are able to find a new instance to call home and can come back better than ever.

I know this community hasn't been super active, but I've really enjoyed it. Thank you so much to all those who've contributed! <3 I hope to still see y'all around!

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Can you code? We need your help to improve lemmy

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Oh my goodness! Please, please, please look after yourself and your health and wellbeing first and foremost!

It sounds like we're a lot alike, and I burned myself out overextending myself, like you're doing, trying to help others so much for so long...my health issues got worse and now I can't help anyone because I can barely even take care of myself! and it's an awful feeling when previously helping others was my whole thing and reason for living.

This may be unsolicited and TMI, but just wanted to caution you about what could happen. Look after yourself, please! You deserve it! Remember that you can't help and look after others if you don't help and look after yourself. Thank you for everything you've done and are doing already. Hang in there. <3

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Changing my username

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What I see most people on the Fediverse (who would normally just change their username if they could) do is to make a new account, then edit the profile info of the old account with a note that you've moved to the new account, with a link to it. That way your old submissions and comments are still around to help others, if anyone wants to contact you later they can, and you still get your changed username. That's what I do, but you can do whatever you want! :)

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BANG!

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Dang, I hadn't even heard of avif yet. I wonder if that's why I just get an error and a little broken image icon instead of being able to see whatever the post's image is.