Has anyone checked that it’s as harmless as this author says? It’s not spyware or mining crypto?

Oh wow, an unironic “thanks” for this. I legitimately couldn’t work out what “gym” was supposed to mean.

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IMO a “simple browser” of this sort should display literally only the content in the HTML file itself. It shouldn’t even view CSS stored in a separate local CSS file, let alone reach out to the web to download more content.

One the reason you got banned and calling me/us power tripping.

Well, yeah. You banned them for the crime of helping new users find alternatives in case they were unaware they existed. Being unaware of alternatives is one of the key UX problems with the fediverse, so informing people about them is critical. Banning people for doing that, especially in the incredibly respectful and apparently targeted way OP was doing it, is pretty awful. The team agreeing on it doesn’t change this, it just means the whole mod team is PTB.

you seem to be quite fixated an numbers and have a rough, even hostile commnication style, even victimizing yourself

No, you victimised them. You banned them for a shitty reason. That makes them the victim. You, ironically, are trying to play victim in this very thread, because they’re calling you out on your poor behaviour. You’ve barely even tried to justify yourself, except by saying that the whole mod team agreed to it…which isn’t a justification.

To be extremely clear, your summary grossly misrepresents what actually happens. Deliberately, I suspect, to back up the fact that the mods banned me and not you despite your extremely blatant violations of the sub’s (and your own instance’s) rules here. Or was it you who abused your admin powers here to silence someone criticising your bad argument?

I have only ever taken issue with Spanish and Portuguese speakers who try to correct my usage of the language, or others who say “American” when they mean person from the country of America. If they simply choose to use estadounidense or some English translation thereof, I have no problem with that. But trying to correct someone else for using the language completely correctly (and the flaws of your source have already been thoroughly debunked elsewhere in this thread, I shan’t bother repeating myself there) makes you the racist (as much as “race” is the right term to use here…which it isn’t, precisely) imperialist here.

The thread was literally asking “hey, what are the right words to use to refer to people from America”. Even if my take was wrong (and I maintain in the strongest terms that it was not…see my reply to @therapyguy@lemmy.wtf) it was a respectful input to the discussion at hand. “YDI” is the dumbest of dumb takes. Contributing to a thread about a given topic with input on that topic does not deserve a ban and to have your opinion silenced.

Oh, incidentally I also reported dessaline’s comment. Like you say, they were pretty obviously behaving in an offensive manner. I figure if the mods are removing my comments (and giving me a weeklong ban!!), they had for sure better remove dessaline’s, which is far more directly offensive with its completely unfounded accusation of white supremacy and calling you illiterate.

In relation to the claims they make about America not being used prior to the 20th century…even their own article proves them wrong.

For some thirty years prior to 1898, while the adjective ‘American’ has been in general use, the noun ‘America’ has been extremely rare,

it says. Remembering that this is a thread specifically about the demonym. So the adjective has been in widespread use since at least the 19th century, despite what our fascistic friend says.

Not that the claim made in that article is exactly correct. One of my favourite books (and certainly my favourite pre-20th-century text) uses some derivation of “America” no fewer than 7 times, two of which are nouns. Not exactly an obscure text, and not one with any reason to be strongly biased in favour of America. Still, that at only serves as proof that the claim in the article is wrong by at least 1 year, so it’s not the most damning. Not as damning as the fact that the article given in evidence that “American” only exists because imperialism (never mind the bleeding obvious…America as a country, and indeed all the various other countries of the Americas, only exist because of imperialism) specifically states that “American” existed prior.

I actually wanted to reach out to the mods and ask what’s up before posting this. But Lemmy’s lack of a modmail feature means when I want to contact mods, I have to direct message them individually. And it looks like all the mods of that community are inactive, with the most recent one only having been active 2 months ago. So I wouldn’t even know who to reach out to.

That’s not necessarily true. Circa 2016–17 I frequented a website that worked in Chrome but not Firefox. This was due to Firefox at the time not implementing web standards that Chrome did. Firefox only got around to it in 2019. So naturally, the developer of the site was telling people to use Chrome.