ElRenosaurusReg [fae/faer, comrade/them]
The only thing they block is the eyes, nothing is obscured otherwise, their own demos on their website show that.
I personally won’t be wasting my money, if I want to obscure my face I’ll wear a face mask and color contacts like I already do.
I never drink more than one drink in a night, and never when I’m in a bad mood. Generally I only drink with friends, but sometimes I’ll crack open a beer when I’m gaming. It’s a rarity. That I’ve slightly increased it, should probably alarm me though, especially given my current situation.
Your concern is both noted and appreciated, genuinely.
I’m having a bad time!
I’m single for the first time in my adult life after 8 years with the same person, so I’m using this time to try and vetter myself and get control over my vices now that I’ve got the freedom to introspect at my pace.
I’ve mostly quit smoking weed, and significantly cut back on cigarettes, and I’ve increased my drinking now that I’ve realized that I don’t actually have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol and was just afraid of it because of my parents being alcoholics.
I’m in a new city with no friends, no family, and no support system, so it’s been really rough, but I’m determined to come out of this shit clean on the other side.
Thank you for asking, I’ve been looking for a place to vent a little
I’m pan and a slut, but I appreciate the sentiment
If you’re interested in going that route, I’d start by following a few pages like “Friendly Comrade Ancom Mermaid” and “Catmin’s anticapitalist treehouse of solidarity”, shortly after interacting with those pages your algorithm will start suggesting the right types of groups for you, especially if those types of pages are the only thing you follow. I’d also recommend searching for some queer allyship groups (ideally run by queer people) to further tune your algo in that direction.
I hate to admit it, but when all your friends are gay communists Facebook can be pretty lit, I found most of my online hangouts through a bunch of support groups there and shitposting groups
Forced Snaps is a big one. If you’re not familiar, Snap is Canonical’s proprietary alternative to Appimage and Flatpak. While the Snap Store is open source and can be forked or modified as needed, the backend is completely closed source, which has vexed many members of the Open Source community.
While the distribution itself is currently pretty solid, they’ve made questionable decisions in the past like including an amazon search function in their fork of gnome (Unity). Snap can be removed by a skilled user or someone well versed in search-fu, but their choice to have it installed by default, the be the default for package management, and to inject snaps in place of deb packages when installed via Apt, are all big red-flags given that nobody can see what is in those snaps til they’re installed except for canonical.
Pronouns in usernames is WHY I decided to stay on hexbear instead of jumping from instance to instance with the great reddit exodus of '23.
I’m still learning to interact with y’all, but I appreciate how tight knit the community is and how y’all interact with each other.
On that though, I genuinely can’t see how people’d think this is a right wing instance pretending to be left wing, it’s like they haven’t even looked at the instance beyond a cursory glance