• @vzq
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    276 months ago

    TERF island is at it again…

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      Why do they have so many terfs there anyway? Is it something in the water?

      • @vzq
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        146 months ago

        What I find shocking is not the amount of transphobia per se (unfortunately that is common the world over) but just how pervasive it is across all facets of UK society including progressive newspapers, academia and the friggin Green Party.

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          16 months ago

          @vzq maybe that’s what makes it so noticeable. I’ve seen UK terfs brigade New Zealand twitter, news site comments etc on trans issues.

          • @vzq
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            16 months ago

            This has momsnet written all over it.

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        It’s just the right wing idiots in general, it’s not like the US

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          46 months ago

          @echodot I don’t know about the US. But the UK seems to have terfs where I wouldn’t expect them, like the Green Party or Guardian columnists, and they’re also quite brigade-y.

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            6 months ago

            You know I can see the reply right, you don’t need to at me about it.

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              @echodot kbin autopopulates the ats, I guess because it is useful for mastodon who we also federate with.

              Sometimes I leave it in because threading is still a bit dicey so it helps me keep track of who I’m talking to, can stop if it bugs you though.

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                16 months ago

                I’ve definitely noticed it bugs some people. I wonder if those people maybe just don’t understand why it’s happening, combined with it looking silly on Lemmy when you don’t know why it’s happening? That it autopopulates just like it does on Mastodon and did on Twitter, like you said. Although, I definitely remember people getting annoyed with it on Twitter, too, lol. Anywho, you’re not hurting anybody, but it’s kind of you to offer to stop if it’s bugging them. :) Maybe a PSA about it, why it happens, and why people leave the tags in their replies, posted to a lot of different communities/magazines/topics would help?

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                  I don’t really mind it was just a bit odd so I brought it up.

                  The biggest problem is it results in me getting two notifications, the first one for the comment reply, and then another one because my username has been mentioned.

                  It makes me feel like I’m 50% more popular than I really am

                • livus
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                  16 months ago

                  Til, this is the first time it’s come up for me. I think it’s probably best to bring my threading problem up with Kbin’s dev when he’s a bit less busy.