https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/world/europe/aberdeen-abrdn-rebrand-vowels.html

Hw cn brnds sty cl? Nt by drpping vwls, one of Britain’s biggest investment firms concluded this week, when it announced it was adding back the “e’s” to its name four years after dropping them.

is it that bad

That’s really unfortunate. Does the platform they’re on not have the “block instance/domain” feature?

And they still left the fediverse?

Did they know about the idea of different instances, and each one having their own set of rules and missions?

I actually have a pretty high opinion of PugJesus otherwise…

YDI

1. As said below, this was an instance ban, which Lemmy shows a bit weirdly.
2. Come on. It’s just a pronoun. All the arguments for respecting neopronouns apply here, and blahaj accepts and asks all to respect neopronouns.
3. Saying “I identify as <my own name>” is not anywhere close to the attack helicopter dogwhistle.
4. Say drag did identify as a dragon. Gender is a construct anyway. How is someone identifying as what they make of a gender any different from someone identifying as neutrois or andersatyr?
5. You died on this hill, and these are the instance rules.
6. I’m pretty sure there was a rule here saying “stop posting about dragonfucker”?

YEAH CANADAAAA