It’s no secret that Lemmy is shaping up to be a viable alternative to Reddit. The issue it faces however is that it’s still relatively niche and not many people know about it. I propose that we change this. By contacting the mods of large subreddits and asking them to make and promote relevant Lemmy communities we could substantially increase the amount of people who discover the fediverse. What’s more, I don’t think this is would be a hard sell considering many mods are already pissed off with Reddit due to their API changes. I believe that this is the time to act, so this is a call to arms, to help grow the fediverse into the future of social media!

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    Doctors will switch to “person with prostate” type of categories as soon as an intersex person walks in. “Man” and “Woman” are just convenient short-hands for “the common configuration”. We can also usually sort pieces of cutlery into “spoon” or “fork” (let’s ignore knives and chopsticks) but once upon a while you come across a spork and it’d be nonsensical to insist that there’s only spoons and forks while you’re straight-up looking at the exception in your very hand.

    And fuck clothing designers they think all men are storks meaning I have to buy pants for overweight people then hem arse and waist. They also think that women never carry stuff around and thus don’t need pockets. Seriously, fuck them.

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        That’s a lot of words to justify calling people “unnatural”, “mistakes”, and “wrong”, for the way they were born.

        Have you ever tried accepting people as they are, without disgust? To accept in your heart that exceptions are not abominations, but precious opportunities to make sure we did not close ourselves off to see wonder of the world?