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  • Even if those six were the actual primary and secondary colours, it wouldn’t be necessary to have a primary word for each. You can refer them by hue, or by referring to some object.

    But you don’t - that’s why languages lacking these words run into issues as described in the article.

    The wheel that you’re implying by those six colours is mostly an artistic “distortion” of the 18th century.

    But isn’t there a good reason it was distorted that way?

    Of course some colours take up much more or much less of the visible colour spectrum, but that doesn’t mean they have more significance to us.

    Like red taking up over five times more of the colour spectrum than yellow doesn’t mean that all these reds need to be named. Most red tones are hardly distinguishable to most people. Yellow and red on the other hand can be distinguished with ease.

    You won’t run into the issue of differently coloured traffic lights in english countries; because while the traffic lights might use slightly different shades of green, they don’t use drastically different colours - because we properly named them.











  • smollittlefrog@lemdro.idtoMemes@lemmy.mlGreat deal ngl
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    Do you see instances who’s main purpose is to represent “people inside the more mainstream American Overton window of mid right to far right” that are even nearly as popular as Hexbear?

    If you’re browsing all you frequently see posts from Hexbear users. I’m yet to come across a noticable amount of posts from users from an instance which represent the group you mentioned.

    (I couldn’t even name a single instance that fits that description, because if they exist, they’re not nearly as active as Hexbear.)

    Toxic people exist on all public instances. But on some they’re more common than on others.


  • smollittlefrog@lemdro.idtoMemes@lemmy.mlGreat deal ngl
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    1 year ago

    The issue with Hexbear is that their users tend to talk in a very demeaning and insulting manner. About half of the popular posts on Hexbear are about making fun of people or communities. Their political views are less of an issue; it’s more about their toxic behaviour.