Meta post I’ve decided to make. I enjoyed the unixporn subreddit a lot when I used reddit more. I enjoy customizing my linux de as much as the next nerd.

But you definitely shouldn’t use racist slang to refer to the process.

To be clear, I didn’t know the origin of the term ‘ricing’ until fairly recently. I was chattimg with my friend and used it to describe my de setup. They informed me that apparently it’s from car customization, and is a pejorative against generally asian men who customize their car to look like a racecar.

After learning this I was sad to realize just how engrained it is in linux de customization culture. I personally have stopped using the term, and I would ask everyone here stop as well.

    • s0ykaf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      266·
      1 year ago

      thread appears on our feeds. we comment on it.

      i understand it feels bad to have your beliefs questioned, but that’s not brigading, it’s simply how these websites work

      • midnight@lemmy.one
        63·
        1 year ago

        Instance has comparatively high and active userbase with a very high percentage of Linux users

        That may be true, but your instance doesn’t have a very high percentage of engagement in this community outside of this post. Copying from an older comment of mine:

        These are the top 3 instances commenting in this specific post at the time of writing (2023-08-25 08:02 UTC):

        instance   | count
-------------+-------
hexbear.net |   205
lemmy.ml    |   106
lemm.ee     |    61

        These are the top 3 instances and their comment counts on any post in lemmy.ml/c/unixporn this month at the time of writing:

        domain    | count
-------------+-------
lemmy.ml    |   210
hexbear.net |   210
lemm.ee     |   100

        You’re reading that right, hexbear has a whopping FIVE comments in this community that are not part of this post.

        One of those 5 is a user participating in the hexbear brigade in this thread that commented previously said rices were inspiring. But go ahead and tell me all those users are pillars of the linux community. Which bad faith argument will you use next?

        Inb4 bRIgaDIng HAs To be ORGaniZed And we’re NoT; even though an acceptable use of the term is also when a particular group floods another community’s space that they don’t normally participate in. I know you lot have trouble grasping a term can have multiple definitions, so don’t hurt yourself champ.

        • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          72·
          1 year ago

          That’s great and all, but this is a federated comm, it appeared on my home page under active. I don’t know if it matters if I personally shared my XMonad config and custom volume widget or commented on yet another custom tiling wm. I always exclusively lurked on the subreddit. I lurk on this one too. Discussion isn’t usually that insightful besides “wow!” and “theme?”.

          This time, there was actual discussion and I decided to join in. Much more interesting than the 900th i3 gaps with an 18 pixel gap and 15 lines of code visible in the terminal.

        • Freeanotherday [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          53·
          1 year ago

          This is a .ml post… by one of us…

          Who the fuck do you think you are saying we are not part of the .ml community?

          We were here before you and we will be here after you’re purged with the rest of the libs.

          inshallah

          • midnight@lemmy.one
            31·
            1 year ago

            What? You know hexbear isn’t lemmy.ml… right?? Your instance has 22 users subscribed to lemmy.ml/c/unixporn. You’ll notice I didn’t say you’re not part of whatever .ml community you’re talking about (although hilarious if you’re actually Mali gov.) I’m saying your instance is not an active participant in this unixporn community outside of this post. Also probably pretty safe to bet you’re not actually part of whatever ml community you’re imagining.

            Another not so clever shift by you fools to unsuccessfully change what I’ve said.

            We were here before you and we will be here after you’re purged with the rest of the libs.

            Are you the reason your comrades keep questioning knowledge on federation? Your instance didn’t federate until earlier this month. It’s literally impossible for your collective “we” to have been here before anyone with an account older than that, of which there are plenty.

            To spell it out for you. You don’t know what you’re talking about. Your instance as a whole does not engage with lemmy.ml/c/unixporn outside of this post. Be more mad though, it’s fun dismantling you all one by one. Maybe just stick to your safe space echo chamber 👍

              • midnight@lemmy.one
                31·
                1 year ago

                Yeah I’ll accept your surrender as well. Back to your little safe space now, skip to it.

                  • midnight@lemmy.one
                    31·
                    1 year ago

                    What? Pointing out that you fools are piling onto people in this post isn’t crying? Pointing out that you fools aren’t active participants in this community isn’t crying?

                    You’re butthurt that I said you’re not part of this community and when confronted with evidence that backs it up you … checks notes … reacted like a petulant child.

                    Again, probably best to stick to your safe space echo chamber.

    • randint@lemm.ee
      74·
      1 year ago

      400 comments total is rookie numbers. You should check out the news posts involving either Russia, China, or Taiwan. Or check out this post where the admins of lemm.ee asked for the users’ opinions of whether to defederate from hexbear.net. There are 1884 comments. (There was once more than 1900 comments, but I guess the mods removed some.)