I could have answered here, that may have been more logical but, yeah, I have yet to understand how exactly that cross posting thing works, and how I'm supposed to be using it. So, if anyone wants to read my answer it's posted as a comment over there... Yeah, I also have to figure out how to make an instance-agnostic link to a specific comment, too.

I think the problem is, they have become far more than a ‘statistically insignificant minority’. Anti-intellectualism is becoming more rampant at a horrifying speed

I do wonder if we have any data regarding that? I mean isn't it also, next to this quick rise of proud idiocy I'm not denying, a lot more noise made by them, and around them? Say, for example, by our dear media willing to do their worst in order to sell more paper/get more page views?

An interesting read, thx.

Flat-Earthers seem to have a very low standard of evidence for what they want to believe but an impossibly high standard of evidence for what they don’t want to believe (Lee McIntyre, Boston University)

This sums it up perfectly, for me. And not just for those flat-earthers. They don't want to discuss their ideas, they want to be right. There is no way we can have a sincere debate with any 'believer' (of whatever).

And why should we? Why should we do the work to prove them wrong knowing they will blissfully ignore any demonstration that does not end in 'omfg! You were right all the time! The Earth is indeed flat, and hollow, and reptilians are our true overlords, and the only time NASA send anyone to the moon is when they were all high!'

Why not let them do all the work themselves, instead? They seem to be so willing. I would even happily see some public money used to fund their 'space exploration' probes if I did not know for sure that the instant their stupid ideas would be proven wrong by their very own probe, the fact that any public money would have been involved in making it, they would argue it's one more irrefutable proof of the conspiracy against their (unshaken and unshakable) truth.

Imho, the real issues is not those people believing their moronic ideas. There always have been a bunch like them. Flat-earthers, doomsday believers, anti-vax, conspirationists of every single type you can imagine, and so on. We should be fine with them holding to their believes. Why? Because they should not matter, they should remain the statistically insignificant minority they are, no matter how loud. Also, we should not be afraid to call them for who they are.

Have we really become afraid of calling them by their name? Amusing morons at times, but morons nonetheless, and shameless assholes for those among them that take advantage of those people's gullibility for their own personal profit.

Have we become that fragile ourselves that we're afraid to simply ignore them when we're not frankly laughing out loud at their 'theories'? Because if we have, that bunch of eccentrics and their theories, is certainly not the issue I would worry about. We are.

Icon is fine. As an Mbin user I cannot see the banner.

Good to know, thx.

I don’t care much either way but it certainly is not chasing me off.

It's certainly not the most important, it is even less so knowing some users don't even see it.

Thanks for putting effort into reviving this community!

Let's say it's some sort of early new year resolution. I'm a patient guy, so I i'm fine with keeping at it for awhile but it's still just an attempt at hopefully encouraging enough people to participate in the group so that I don't have to keep spamming content myself :p

Will see how it goes, if it goes anywhere.

Thx again four your feedback!

and I would move the banner inkblot a little farther from the s

My first idea was to make it exactly like that but when drawing the blot I thought it might be cool to partially cover the 's' but if it's not working... then it's not working. Here it is:

Thx again for your feedback and, please, keep coming back with more if you feel it's needed. Just don't be surprised, after this comment I'll be sleeping for the next few hours ;)

Thx!

Could we do just the text without the pen for the banner? So if you see the icon and the banner at once it isn’t showing two pens?

That's a good point. Something like that, then?

Thx. Glad to know it works.

Update: the sidebar should be updated now. Would you mind telling me if you can see the new version?

There’s still a lot of rough edges like that with Lemmy right now, but that’s software in development for ya. =/

Indeed. Even after I upgraded my new account to Mod, it was still not working as expected but no complaining: it's great to be able to use Lemmy even with its... weaknesses ;)

I think you're right about that. I just created this account on sh.itjustworks and will make it the new Admin. Hopefully getting rid of those issues.