thebirdspapaya_snark
Hello new Lemmy friends!
Word on the street tells us our community is regularly making it the all page. While this is very cool news to hear, we can see how the sudden emergence of our posts in your feed might feel jarring and probably raises some questions. And also how, without knowing the backstory, our community might appear less than virtuous, so here’s a very brief introduction which hopefully will clear a few things up.
The woman we’re discussing is a body positive influencer and media personality who has gained fame and wealth by lying, manipulating, exploiting her children for content, plagiarizing BIPOC creators and blaming her BIPOC content editor for it (thereby ruining her career), among other things. Her fraudulent behavior is no different (I’d argue worse) from the likes of Jay Shetty (google him if you don’t know who he is or what he did). She’s the latest in a long line of grifting influencers who are abusing their power, taking advantage of their position and exploiting their followers. The difference is that she’s Canadian. Our laws around social media and advertising aren’t as clear (and where they are she’s disobeyed them), add to that, our mainstream media has protected her from those who’ve tried to expose her grift and silenced/intimidated anyone who’s tried to speak out.
Our Reddit sub was taken down due to reports of copyright infringement, which is unfounded and categorically untrue as no one ever tried to steal her work and pass it off as their own. The mods have made an appeal. While at first glance it may seem like we’re just “shitting on her” the sub has been more devoted to investigation and posting proof of her lies than just bitching for the sake of bitching. The reality is that she’s hurt, manipulated and let down a lot of people. She stole intellectual property and employment, caused mental distress and has repeatedly told lies to boost engagement and profit off her audience, so people are understandably upset that their voices are being silenced.
We’re grateful to have been welcomed so kindly by so many of you, and to those sticking around to watch the drama unfold, we’re glad to have you!
**all posts are alleged.
Rules:
-Please follow Lemmy content guidelines. See https://lemmy.ca/
-Minor's Right to Privacy: No posts about the children whatsoever. No mention of full names and no photos. Minors must be completely removed from all photos/videos. No exceptions. This goes for ANY child. No just TBP's.
-No snarking on the character or appearance of any of the children. This is a site dedicated to Sarah Landry.
-No posting information that is not readily available online/NoDoxxing: Influencers post an abundance of personal information online. Examples of doxxing include:
- Posting an individual's phone number or address on the internet.
- Releasing information about an individual's family, place of employment, or other private documents.
- Encouraging others to use released information to harass an individual.
-Comments Regarding Mental Health: Jokes or Snide remarks about mental health or unaliving oneself will not be tolerated under any circumstances. No armchair diagnosing.
-Do not post or solicit communication with TBP or related influencers: This includes screenshots and references to 'this is what I commented.' Please message a mod if you would like to share anything anonymously.
-No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, body shaming or other ism/bigotry.
-No TBP crusaders
-No commenting with the sole purpose of being rude/insulting: while criticism/debate is welcome on the page, being purposefully mean, insulting and rude is not.
-No brigading/incitement of mass harassment. Do not post links to affiliate sites, or incite members of the sub to brigade against TBP/related parties (this includes brands).
-Fact check and do your homework: Make sure to research before posting. If you are posting photos or videos that are filtered/photoshopped, make sure it is blatantly obvious. No rumours. no speculations (example Ozempic use).
-No overly vulgar language.
-No advertisement of any kind
-No duplicate posts
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Hey all, long-time Lemmy user who spotted this community on my All feed.
So, first of all, welcome to the fediverse! I hope this isn't information overload, but I thought it'd be useful for you if I went over a few basic terms here, what they mean, and a big overview of how all this works.
First of all, your "instance" is lemmy.ca. An instance is kinda analogous to how an email server works. A Gmail user can email a Yahoo user just as easily as another Gmail user: same idea here. I'm on sh.itjust.works, a different instance run by a different admin, different mod team, different rules. But that doesn't stop me seeing communities (the equivalent of subreddits) and being able to post/comment/reply/vote in any of your stuff!
The fediverse takes this concept one step bigger. Mastodon users can see/reply/post/etc into Lemmy as well from their own accounts on very different platforms. Same with Friendica, Kbin, Diaspora, Soundstorm, Peertube, etc. All of these different platforms with different features and focuses, but we're all connected via an underlying protocol that allows us to all talk to eachother.
And the best part? Because of the separation of instances, no one person or organization can single-handedly make gigantic platform ruining decisions. A hypothetical Lemmy version of Spez would just end up killing their own instance as everybody migrates their user accounts to instances that aren't run by crazy people. There's even quite a few people who run their own tiny one person instances so they are quite literally their own admins.
As someone who put in many many hours answering questions and getting people acclimated during Reddit's APIocalypse, please don't hesitate to ask if there's something you'd like to know about Lemmy or the fediverse as a whole.
This has been such a warm welcome to unfamiliar territory. Thanks for having us! Will do our best to keep things in line.
I'm just a random lemming who saw this community, would you mind returning the favour and explaining what a birdpapaya is?
Have a look at the sidebar, most of the info is there
I have. Who is this person? What does she do? Why is she worthy of an online community? What reason does the internet have to dislike her?
Got some more info from that comment: https://lemmy.ca/comment/9669464
If you want to have a look at plagiarism: https://lemmy.ca/post/22735011?scrollToComments=true
Post where the lemmy.ca admins affirm that they don't see a problem with the community as long as it follows the instance rules: https://lemmy.ca/post/22638028?scrollToComments=true
To me the main interest in the community is seeing people who are completely out of the usual Lemmy demographic learning how to use the platform (and they seem to adapt quite well). If you don't care about this or about the topic itself, it's probably better to block the community and call it a day.
Very cool. Thank you for this info and for being so welcoming 🙏😊
I really like it here