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Cake day: November 15th, 2023

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  • Thanks friend, you did well by me. Yeah, me too. The @polyamory@lemmy.world group seems good as well. (LoL, hey, it worked!!) It’s been my observation that more people all the time are looking for relationship options that fit them better than the standard monogamy model. I used to think that poly was just one of those odd things about me that not everyone shares. And I got ok with that. But the percentage of false paternity speaks to the fact that people want to cheat reproductively or otherwise. Cheating sounds way too dangerous to oneself and one’s partners, with STIs, and even with hurt feelings. I prefer to talk about things, so everyone knows what’s going on, and each can decide how they want to play.










  • I have a difficult time differentiating between active trolling and a lack of knowledge/ understanding. u/Moon appears to be leaning trollward. However calling someone stupid, or dumb is ableist or elitist. People have differing levels of cognitive capacity and education. And learning occurs over time, but not by the same linear path for each of us. Ultimately what I’m trying to say is education is better than ad hominem attacks. Also, don’t feed the trolls.


  • Umm, (coyly) why thank you! I don’t use goog, if I can avoid it. Insert brief anti-corporate rant. In this case I was searching within the Feidiverse using the search bar on Kbin.run. And also searching with DuckDuckGo!, which search engine doesn’t save one’s searches/ results. I’ll put links to other polyfedi stuff in the sidebar, good suggestion. :-)


  • You are welcome. It’s all about the conversation. I saw an opportunity to build a tiny bit of friendly space in the Fediverse. I’m a reddit-fugee, and don’t need the sort of antagonism I found there in my life, any more. Yesterday, I searched up polyamory on Fedi, and with my poor search skills thought no one had made a poly community here. So I popped up something on Kbin.run as it’s my ‘native’ instance, thinking it would be a stub, but there appears to be interest. I asked specifically, later in the day when I had searched more effectively and found that there are indeed other poly related communities, e.g. on lemmy.world, and also polyamory alberta (tho no posts there in a year, I hope they can flourish, soon) - I asked if there was a need/ interest in keeping this one (https://kbin.run/m/Polyamory), and everyone said we should keep it, as there’s strength in diversity. So my poly-brain couldn’t say no to that.



  • There are many aspects to polylove, including sex, but not solely sex. There’s a bit of a distinction between “swinging” which is more about the sex and less about the relationships. And polyamory which is more about the relationships less about the sex. I mean if that makes sense? But yeah, search the interwebs and there’s a site for any kind of sex you can imagine, and for all the ones you never thought of, nor perhaps wished to think of. (sorry for ending in a preposition, I may need caffeine)


  • I think I may be misunderstanding your question. Is this not a “website for this stuff”? Or do you mean by “this stuff” a dating site? Mostly I see this site as a place for polyamory related discussion, memes, infographics, book reviews and lists, links to other ‘websites for this stuff’, news and related info, etc, etc. And all those things that other poly folx will think of that have never occurred to me. In case it’s not crossed your radar, it’s been out so long, Lesbian Polyfidelity by Celeste West was an early book in my polyamorous education. :-)