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I thought the cropping was just because the op was making a 69 joke

i’m curious, too. the vague idea i got was that the app just launched, people are pissed at meta, and the word pixelfed was banned on a site, causing a Streisand effect. i could just be spreading rumors, though.

I recently adopted a pet, and I keep wondering which new social media can replace what facebook offers to animal shelters and other charity orgs. Like, so long as they get that stream of donations, adoptions, and volunteers directly from facebook, they aren’t leaving without hurting their #1 priority.

I learned pretty recently that facial expressions are part of ASL and can change a sign’s meaning.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-criticizing-sign-language-interpreters-195855277.html here’s an opinion article that gets into this current controversy more.

But, on the facial expression question, these links are more about that:

The past 30 years of linguistic research on sign languages have revealed that there are facial expressions which are used together with manual signs and function as phonological features, morphemes, and syntactic/prosodic markers, for example brow raising marking conditional clauses (Liddell, 1980; Dachkovsky and Sandler, 2009). These facial expressions are clearly communicative in nature and they are used in combination with other meaningful movements (those of the hands).

from: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3593340/

https://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/facialexpressions.htm

Basically, facial expressions are grammar in ASL. There are specific meanings assigned to them, which is different than the more subtle nuance that would’ve been my first guess too, a while ago.