I use element and cinny. Cinny has custom emotes, but element is superior in almost every other way. Really the only thing element lacks over others is custom emotes.

No idea. Could be something that was missed with the server setup.

Since you set up the account on the genzedong server, would it be possible to contact an admin there and ask them to reset it? I believe matrix server admins can reset user passwords from the server command line.

Isn't this the bridge from Beetlejuice?

there's a movie called Big Man Japan (or that's the English title anyways) that's super fun and I'd love to find an HD version of it somewhere. It's like a parody of kaiju films. Here's the trailer: https://youtu.be/abTX8EKBoKI

Surely the crowd complaining about “cancel culture” will say something about this… right?

I'm half awake from a nap and typed "Yuri" into the search bar not thinking 😑

Yeah this is just setting up Ukraine as the fall guy. I still think it was really the US and Norway, like Seymour Hersch said it was: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

Therefore, we are left with some options that may feel uncomfortable to us. For example, we may want to consider leaving the Fediverse for another software platform that does NOT include ActivityPub. To explain, Fediverse/ActivityPub are very positive concepts on the foundational level. However, the Beehaw project is struggling to include this because most of our moderation/content/ethos is being jeopardized from OTHER federated instances (i.e. it, mostly, is NOT coming from within our own Beehaw registered user base).

Sounds like they don't like federation and just want to isolate their own instance. Why couldn't they just defederate instead of going through the process of migrating to another platform? Is it really that difficult to do?

EDIT: Thinking about this a little more, it seems like the admins (or admin?) have a very specific idea of the kind of community they want, and are getting frustrated when everything isn't perfect to their vision, whether that's lemmy code or other instances they are federated with. Then they complain and contribute nothing towards making the fediverse better. I guess what I'm saying is that they really do seem to want a walled garden that's perfect to some idealized community that only exists in their heads, and I don't think communities really work like that.

Just going to throw out that the tankies at the... uhhh... US STATE DEPARTMENT have also said officially that there isn't evidence for genocide in Xinjiang: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/19/china-uighurs-genocide-us-pompeo-blinken/

If anyone calls you a genocide denier, throw out this one and see out they respond.

Just to tack onto this, I got banned from /r/worldnews for a comment that pointed out Radio Free Asia is US government propaganda and has a history of direct links to the CIA. My post was perfectly civil and cited sources for all my claims, yet I was banned outright and no response from the mods when I messaged about it.