In a way that can't really be described to Europeans. If you live in a suburban area, people think you're weird if you do anything other than use your car to get anywhere for any reason. Almost everywhere in the US is designed around the idea that you have a car and you use it every day.
This is about my city:
And it's absolutely true. Our buses are mostly useful for driving to a Park & Ride/Transit Center and then to work and back. That's about it.
!technology@lemmy.world has always been a place where you can say whatever the mods will let you say. Make your own instance with blackjack and hookers if you want.
Based on the modlog it appears that you were banned for trolling. If you feel it was in error, contact the mod. Otherwise, find a different community.
In Cuba, just about anything the Communist Party doesn't like.
If Cuba won't take him, and he's truly here illegally, they should find a third country which would accept him. Plenty of places in Latin America he could go.
Oh I'm sure the banks want to lend to people who don't pay back loans because they're convinced that the government has money in a strawman account or whatever.
I told them their “MEN DON’T POST HERE” posts on the frontpage are hostile, which is the reaction they got from a half dozen folks who were talking about the subject.
So what if it's hostile to you? It's their community. I see that community from time to time. Guess what. I don't post there. I accept that it's their space and their rules.
I talked about my experience as a gay man, wanting more community here on Lemmy, but that I wouldn’t start communities or threads saying “NO STRAIGHT PEOPLE POST HERE” to do it.
You don't have to, but other people can if they want. If someone else did, I, as a straight person, wouldn't post there. Because they asked me not to.
I get that I broke their rule, and I can be banned there for that - but they didn’t ban me for being a man, they banned me for hurting their feelings. And now I can’t use LGBTQ and Trans communities as a result. OK, fuck turtlesareneat, he shouldn’t be allowed in queer communities cause he hurt a mod’s feelings.
No, you didn't get banned because you hurt their feelings. You got banned because you can't follow rules. Other instances banned you because you've been shown that you can't follow other instances' rules.
This reads very heavily of "but I had to reply because they needed to hear my carefully-considered opinion." NO. THEY. DON'T. They didn't want to talk to you and you decided to barge in and tell them what you had to say because by god you needed to be heard.
That's not what your question says though. Your question asks for reasons why you should support the development of Lemmy because you don't like the moderation decisions that the developers make on their instance. That's a different question than "how can I support the software without supporting the people making it." The answer to that is you can't.
As others have said, you can fund your instance if you so choose. You can also try to fund a fork/replacement.
You should not continue supporting it if you don't feel that the developers aren't deserving of your money.
There's so much closed-source business software that only runs on x64 that x64 will be here for a very long time.
My wife works for the state and had to go from Columbus, OH to Detroit, MI for a professional conference. That's about a 3 hour car ride.
She's not allowed to take a personal vehicle to go. State vehicles are not allowed to leave the state. She had to fly there. She said it was easily slower to fly when factoring in getting to the airport, checking bags, etc. than to drive.
Elvis Costello but I've only seen him twice. I like CAKE a lot too and have seen them 4 or 5 times.