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In my country you have to pay an annual fee if your bank account exceeds a certain limit (5000€)

That's insane!

Giveaways seem to have expired, but thanks anyway.

@[email protected] needs to change the title to "Daily thoughts: game X, game Y, game Z." Continually saying "screenshot" each time is misleading and does legitimately sound spammy and annoying. A simple title change would be so much better.

Illegal = you can go to jail. You're not gonna go to jail just for using a browser add-on.

Against policy = sure. That doesn't stop me from using NewPipe, FreeTube, AdNauseam, NoScript, etc. either, though, nor should it you.

Good.

Gotcha, and yes, another friend of mine uses iDrive for its insane deal!

That instantly makes me recollect CTRL Z, this 21-min comedic sci-fi short film.

backed up to 3 separate cloud services

Why so many?

"Supplement?" I would have said "replace."

Right, and even outside of transgender situations, those languages already have numerous word or phrase exceptions to their gendering patterns, which makes this only trickier!

I tried it and it's awesome! But there are two features that Discord has over Element when it comes to these voice calls; in Discord, you can choose to not watch the stream (which can help save data for those with limited data at the time); Matrix, or at least Element(? Help me out here) forces all voice call participants to stream the screen-share.

Additionally, Discord outlines avatars in green when they're saying something, which is a handy mic test feature, whereas Element(/Matrix?) gives no visual feedback.

I got confused by that at first because while things did get heated, Ada is not a mod of this community—which is on lemmy.world, not lemmy.blaha.zone. I had also responded the way I had without knowledge of the deleted content, because I hadn't actually been functioning here as a moderator until after this post; I had a cross-instance access issue prior for quite a while. I've still got a fair chunk of Fediverse operations and procedures to learn!

All I know for sure is that the mental health of both sides is crucial to try to uphold as much as possible, and more us-vs.-them-ing is pretty much the opposite of the way towards long-term, global peace. So it was my choice to have OP unbanned since there had been no warning issued directly by any local mod here, but we'll monitor and retake action if more daggers fly. Respectful(-enough) dialogue should always be allowed, though, and it's inevitable that things can get hairy when changing people's opinions. Maybe I'm too permissive, but I believe there was still potential for dialogue even at the height of conflict here.

The question is: do we (I mean generic "we" over any topic, not just this) actually want to try to influence someone toward a different view, or do we just lock them out and throw away the key and treat them as less-than-human, even if that's what they seem to have been doing themselves? Banning can easily feel like tremendously authoritarian silencing, as someone who has experienced unfair banning over misunderstandings elsewhere, so I don't do that lightly (unless the person is a scammer, a troll, or a repeat offender after having been warned—those 3 specific cases are my criteria, personally). Lots of large-forum experience over two decades went into developing this policy.

Edit: Oh, and correct, empathically connecting isn't an excuse for misbehavior but that was just a possible explanation.