The site works fine for me, but the same software is available from Github if desired.

Note I'm recommending anime streaming software (instead of an Anitaku-like site) because it's a bit less likely to be taken down.

As Kolanaki said, copyright holders killed it.

If you're looking for alternatives give Hayase (formerly Miru) a try.

I agree with 90% of what you said, so I'll focus only on the disagreement.

What you are proposing (to message OP to clarify what they meant) is the rational thing to do. Not what the mod did - they basically assumed why OP said it, assumptions are not rational.

PTB.

Sometimes, people express themselves poorly. And sometimes they hit some association they weren't aware of. That's clearly your case here; you were calling ChatGPT "she" instead of "it", this screams "L2+" from a distance, and a quick glance at your profile shows you're from Sweden.

So why the bloody hell is the mod in question assuming racism, due to some association native English speakers in USA do???

In that situation, they should've clarified that the association is seen as racist by some people. And then watch closely how you answered it; if you said something "ops, I wasn't aware of that, my bad", you're probably not a racist.

(The association between minority groups in USA and "their women is masculine" was new for me too - I'm not from USA either. Thanks ratboy@hexbear for explaining it.)

Got it - thanks for the info.

X11: even regardless of whatever non-Linux takes the forker holds, forking X11 seems to be such a bad idea. The X11→Wayland migration is being painful, and now we see the light at the end of the tunnel might as well improve Wayland instead. Cue to the next piece of news (Ubuntu and Manjaro ditching X11).

I wonder if Denmark ditching Microsoft is directly related to Schleswig-Holstein doing it. Specially given they're neighbours.

Google ditching Android: may I be honest? I think smartphones are wrong the grounds up. They should be more like miniature PCs; in this case, meaning "if you're able to run an OS in a PC, you should be able to run it in a phone, and vice versa". But of course hardware vendors give no fucks, right? PC-isation of smartphones means people replacing parts too, and noooo, you can't have people not ditching their whole phone after few years!

Catposting? Is it catposting time?

Seriously I miss memes. Local, fresh memes. Like the beans thing, or the no poop challenge.

OP, could you provide a Ctrl+C Ctrl+V of the conversation? It's practically impossible to read it from the picture.

Anyway. I don't think the voting system is the right way to handle this shit; if the mod is a troll (as other comments here say), it's probably better to gather people affected by the troll, then contact the admins of the instance of the community in question. A few things might happen:

1. Admins don't intervene. Avoid instance, throw shit on the fan, call for defederation, yadda yadda.
2. Admins intervene. Problem solved.

Either way don't interact with the comm. Not even downvoting. You're basically giving it activity.

So, basically: Save our Ship, vanilla version? Awesome.

I'm actually excited with this DLC.

If a mod tells someone "don't say this here", or "get the fuck out", their word is law. That's power. And that power is delegated by the other users, when they join the community, under the condition the mod will use that power to improve the collective space that everyone (not just the e-janny) is building there.

And without users, there's no community. It's only when you have a bunch of people there, sharing stuff, connecting, etc. that you can say "yup, this is a community". Same deal with an instance - without users, it's just a computer wasting power.

So it's a give and take. Both sides owe each other, as both are necessary to build the community.

There's also the matter that all human beings eventually fuck up, sometimes really bad. If that human being is a mod, acting as such, a community needs tools to tell them "you fucked up". And then decide to either keep trusting the mod or pack their things and emigrate. But for that, you need transparency - and for transparency you need to know why the mod did something.

Regarding money, instance costs should be a collective effort. That's why so many instances rely on donations.

It's sensible to provide a reason for the bans because the community should be able to know when, why, and how you enforced the power they delegated to you. It isn't just for the one being banned.

And mods do owe the community something. At the very least: transparency, safety, fairness, and reliability.

I didn't even need to read the instance name. Only "Rule 1, 2" was enough to know this was from .ml. The admins there behave pretty much the same as Reddit admins; always fucking enforcing hidden rules. The link Blaze posted should show well enough which is the hidden rule in question.

Note that this is clearly done by the admins, not by some power-tripping mod. For example, one of the communities listed there (SNOOcalypse) has been locked down for a whole year, and the only mod there is my old account. (In fact one of the reasons I locked that comm down was because I wasn't willing to play along this shit.)