This is part of the dehumanization process. Making gays the "other" signals to the community, and the students, that gay people (or well, probably any adjacent minority category) are not worthy of any respect of decency.

And then there's bullying, violence, or even worse. And when there is bullying or violence, there is no defense against it - because why would that be a bad thing when the community says gays are bad people?

And for gay/lesbian/trans/queer kids, it is just another dagger into the self-respect and self-worth. Having grown up in this shitty milleu in Cobb County, I can say it takes many years of personal work and therapy to purge oneself of internalized hatred.

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Thank you, @DecaturNature - earlier this evening, I conducted a careful review of reading the domain names of the blocked Tier 0 instances. Many instances' names were self-describing the type of content hosted, and those descriptions were suffiicent criteria for exclusion. Others, as you mentioned, were banned for unclear or highly subjective reasons. The instanced that you mentioned were automatically not blocked or silenced because people on theATL.social were already following/engaged with them.

With regards to auto-updating the Tier 0 list, I am in agreement that an automatic update procedure is not ideal, as instances may be again be blocked without cause.

Perhaps it best, now that the worst of the worst are now blocked, to have a better documented review process for any future additions to the block list.

And I know that we did have a moderation council before from our earlier meetings with Andy, but coordination with that council fell apart a bit - which I'll take the blame for. Perhaps re-grouping that group would be helpful going forward.

This is super cool. Thanks for sharing! I'll take a closer look soon

Hello, @[email protected] ! @michael (admin) here - Lemmy is decentralized, which means that communities that have the same name (such as "technology") can be located on multiple servers - each with their own subscribers and subscriber counts.

If you view the list of communities and click the "All" option, you'll see all the communities on all the servers with which yall.theatl.social's users have subscribed.

So this is more complexity than Reddit, of course. That's by design. For now, the use case I'm trying to cultivate on here is local/Atlanta stuff.

Going forward, there needs to be better content/user/community discovery through globally searchable lists and communities. This should be coming in short order, it seems, as others develop on this platform.

They are, yes - I think this is a case where an algorithm is needed to display content, instead of the current options now. I will look into if there are some options to make the local thread a bit more readable.

I usually stop by the Grant Park Farmers Market on Sundays (9am to 12pm) - great produce, but you have to arrive early-ish, as there is now a bit too many people. They tend to take the good stuff first.

I'm hoping that we get a Farmers Market in SWATL sometime...the markets are incredible popular and it seems there needs to be some more scattered around the city.

To correct my initial post, @DecaturNature is correct. There are ~5 domains currently blocked, not 2. And, I'm in agreement thus far that a "light" approach to blocked domains is no longer appropriate. I'm looking forward to thoughts and feedback on this thread to inform the next steps on policy related to future domain blocks! Thank you for your time contributing to this discussion.

So, all updated - the issue is that Lemmy (currently) does not pull older posts or other metadata from a community from another server until a subscription is made to that community/server.

So when you join a community from another server, you're not going to see a lot, until that server "pushes" new posts to yall.theatl.social

That behavior may change with software changes, but it is what it is for now. The same issue occurs on Mastodon too. If you are on a larger server, you won't have this issue, because it's likely that larger server has been receiving posts all along.

I think the archive.ph solution is probably the best. I am the keeper of the bots, 🤖 , so it's just a matter of adding more code to the script(s).

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The Atlanta Daily World is a local newspaper and the first Black daily newspaper in the US. Morgan State University is a historically black college/university (HBCU), and this community includes a newsbot that reads from the RSS feed of the newspaper.

Likewise, I can confirm that they were not blocked, and have no reason why they should be.

Hi! /c/AtlantaNews admin here. I'm currently reviewing news sources and processes to address that specific issue. There will be a better filter for Atlanta news in place by the end of the week. If there are any news sources that I should or shouldn't be including, let me know!

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Oooh, yeah, that is a good idea. I'll enable a word limit. Some RSS feeds only post summaries, while others post the entire article. It's a good idea to have a word limit in any case. Then after that, I can see if there are some practical options for summarization, which is a good idea!

All added, @DecaturNature - that and Saporta Report should be showing up with the news tomorrow.

This shuts down the issue until the next scheduled session of the General Assembly. (Some) House Republicans wanted to hold a special session to move on the issue now; however, only the Governor can call a special session. And the Governor indicating his non-approval would likely make any efforts moot in the regular session in any case.

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Perfect - thank you! I guess that URL was sort of obvious 🙃