No, it's because there was a bug. Behind the scenes, it's trying to subscribe to WomensStuff@pbz instead of womensstuff@pbz. You need to cancel the current pending subscription. It will never complete. After doing that, try and subscribe again.
If you've already done that, cancel any pending subscription attempt (it will never complete), and then try again in a few hours or tomorrow. I don't know how long lemmy caches it for, but once it drops out of the cache, it will work
That should be fixed now. Just cancel that attempt and try and re-subscribe. We found a PieFed bug. Things broke because the old community had capitalised letters and the new community doesn't. It's all sorted now, but you'll need to try and subscribe again!
I mean, if your requirement for a youtube alternative is that it's as big as YouTube, you're just guaranteeing that there will never be a YouTube alternative...
Ok, I hope we've got all of the bugs ironed out now!
Chaos. I grab eggs at random, without consideration for symmetry!
Why does the general attitude on Lemmy seem to lean toward more censorship and silencing of speech
Because "censorship" in this context is a weasel word. What people complaining about censorship really want, is the ability to be more openly racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic etc. What people pushing back against that want is less bigotry.
But because the bigots can't own their bigotry, they hide behind "censorship" and not having enough "free speech".
This is literally youtube saying "The president says that hating on folks is ok, and we will make more money by aligning with that". It's not them taking a stance on free speech, because they still block stuff that costs them money. They still demonetise or block things that are supportive of LGBT folk for the flimsiest of reasons, none of which they would do if censorship or free speech were their reasoning.
This has nothing to do with "censorship" and everything to do with a deliberate attempt not to increase free speech, but to shift "allowed" speech to the right
The alternatives are there. They don't have the volume of course, but they're very much born...
Laziness isn't a thing. It centralises productivity as a measure of worth, and then shames people for hitting a threshold that means they can't meet the productivity expectations of others.
I tried to love it. It's one of the most feature rich fediverse platforms out there. It has groups built in out of the box, it talks to Diaspora as well as Activitypub... But it's just... not nice to use.
Wait until you lie on your tummy in bed for the first time!
I can't see feeds at all, just topics which are way down the bottom.
I'll eat pineapple on pizza, but not on a burger.
I'll eat beetroot on a burger, but not on pizza.
Pineapple is the reason I don't order burgers with the lot.