If I saw that someone was genuinely offended at being called dude I wouldn't use it again with that person

then you're golden, dude 🙂

Dude can be gendered

and some people will think you're just looking for an excuse to call men people who aren't, if you say that dude is not gendered to you

we're on the internet after all, and no one knows the real intentions of the people behind the screen

True, but the way I see it, a graph shouldn't be cropped and left without a labeled y axis, especially when making a point about long term-ness.

Makes sense that not everyone trying out Lemmy would stick around

The same thing happened to Mastodon

It'll be fine 🙂