Iran’s not shooting missiles in defense of Palestine, just in retaliation for Israel shooting at them.

But there’s certainly a level of “oh, is blowing up an apartment building a bad thing? Then WTF have you doing???”

Can’t even ignore the pain of getting a post deleted…

But delete-instead-of-downvote is how you drive out the trolls. If you give shitty people a platform labeled “I think this person is wrong” then you’ve still given them a platform.

They said “please stop donating”. Returning funds or organizing what to do with them is a bunch of work. If they’re shutting down because running the instance is too much work and they feel hassled then I wouldn’t begrudge them just keeping the few thousand left over.

Thanks for linking that. Reading the paper, it looks like the majority of the “self-host” population they’re capturing is people who have a WordPress site. By my reading, the wording of the paper would disqualify a wordpress.com-hosted site as “self-hosted”. But I’d be very suspicious of their methodology and would expect that quite a few people who use WP-hosted reported as self-hosted because the language is pretty confusing.

Though, do be careful because there are abusive same-sex relationships and sometimes it’s even harder to get away because the people around you are telling you “but women can’t be abusers!”