I think associating your basic online identity with your sexual preferences is pretty weird in the first place. Maybe I just don’t get how this is supposed to work. It would be bizarre if my email address or other online identity also directly represented what I prefer in the bedroom.

How do I have an unbiased discussion about gardening or whatever if my address is @gaypower or @whateverhetero

A potential downside is that anything you did on Reddit might be tied to anything you do here. Given enough posts you can eventually dox a person

I’m struggling to see how it even makes sense. Personally I can read 2 languages and kinda a couple more if I try. And google translate can do the rest pretty well. I struggle to think why I wouldn’t want tonat least see posts regardless of language, seems like separating people for a silly reason. Maybe I’m weird. It will be interesting to see how this part works out.

And yes we have animal control come and tend to them. Most of them.

Excellent point. Fidonet, Usenet, IRC, even email lists all solved this problem decades ago. And they mostly worked quite well. The web based generation was a step backwards in many ways.

Meh, beehaw seemed promising until they unilaterally decided to cut off large parts of lemmy. I get why, but I moved to another server because I want to control my own experience

Tbh I feel like the language attribute is poorly implemented in lemmy, or at least in the client interfaces I’ve used. Why is it necessary at all?

Same. Also all my silly alt accounts. Used power delete to edit them all first so hopefully my footprint is several thousands of “u/spez, you suck” comments. A man can dream

I got root

100% agree. I was a redditor for a decade, decided to try lemmy and heard beehaw was a popular one. Tried to sign up, saw they require manual approval with a reason and thought “well fuck” and assumed all servers were the same.

If it weren’t for a reddit post a few days later mentioning that some don’t require the approval, I would never have tried again