At this point Ada apparently had some communication with @gavi@lemmynsfw.com on Matrix, to which I was not privy. He told me, and I said that I had responded to Ada via Lemmy message. He had to step away, so I took over correspondence with Ada via Matrix.

As requested, the correspondence between me and the blahaj admin, posted with her permission. It started with this message (her* original message is on the bottom, my reply is on top):

• I had used “they” for Ada earlier, which was mistaken. My apologies.

YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME

It certainly could be a client thing, but I’m betting it’s a federation problem. Some kind of bug that’s hard to trace.

That’s upsettingly plausible. Ugh.

There is definitely a feature request already in github for tagging. I’m sure they would love the help

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There there, robot. You’re doing your best.

Dude didn’t know what “loli” actually meant because he’s not a native English speaker. Cut the guy some slack already, it’s not cool to kick sometime when he’s down.

Hey just a quick FYI, if anyone here in the US is thinking of taking this instance over, I would strongly recommend becoming extremely familiar with correctly implementing section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and related laws. And I don’t mean just reading it and thinking “I am a smart person, I get this now”. I mean learning how large social media sites and their T&S teams actually implement it for real. Otherwise you will very possibly go to a PMITA prison and wind up on the sex offender registry.

I’m not messing with you. The feds do not fuck around with this stuff.

IDK about you, but I find that much more effective.

I get what you’re doing with the composition here, but I feel like this would be a much stronger image if you cropped the bottom 15% or so, so like the first two diamond-shaped tiles off of the bottom. If you do that, you make the aisle look much brighter on average, which makes the image look brighter, which keeps you from having to bring up the darks as much.

That said, I do think that you need to be a touch brighter so that the geometry of the pews is visible, because all of those straight lines pushing towards the center will do some work in making the image look more interesting. I think there’s also interesting geometry in the lights in the ceiling coming straight down, too.