I’m a woman and child

If you really want to help this person I’d suggest being a friend to him. Don’t talk about the stuff you disagree on. Every time he mentions it, be very clear that you emphatically disagree and that the positions that he holds cause you harm. Do not get drawn into a debate, just states how it negatively affects you and end the conversation. If he can accept that boundary then you can build a friendship, and that friendship will eventually provide you with the sufficient mutual respect to potentially begin to change minds with open and vulnerable conversation. It has to be a real friendship though, you can’t be faking it.

That’s all a lot of energy and effort, but it’s the kind of sustained relational support that can effectively promulgate change.

Automod was a useful tool, there’ll be a version here I’m sure.

Eh, people don’t like twitter. That’s not weird.

When the gif doesn’t load but you imagine the rest of it anyway:

The other 5% were furious

Well I’m here

I truly think that welcoming corporate interests into the fediverse is very much counter to everything that I find compelling about it. Once meta carves out a seat at the table the dream of a digital commons operated by and for the community is dead.

You can’t give an inch is the issue. Not only because we’re talking about fundamental human rights (trans people should just accept not being permitted to engage in sports?) but because it only shifts the Overton window onto the next thing with arguments now strengthened by capitulation.

If you permit transphobes the position that trans women are dangerous in sports it becomes easier to point to that and say “see, they are also dangerous in [new domain of contention], the progressives even agree!

I think it would be pretty easy to use the API and js DOM manipulation to do this on the client side

I’ve been embracing the weirdness of multiple platforms with distinct cultures and equally enjoying going to different parts of the internet again after quite some time! I do miss the sense that in browsing Reddit you could sample the cultural pulse of a particular demographic cluster.

I believe the memo is saying meta will benefit in the end because they can utilise community innovation already built in their own architecture

I love this! I’ve been getting much more confident in this way as well, as I start to really internalise that there were so many ways I was stopping myself from being comfortable purely to make the cis/hets around me feel like everything was “normal”

I think he was just trying to be coy

I’m sorry but this is hilarious

A few thoughts:

• As others have said comparison is the thief of joy. It’s also not a very useful motivator. Feeling a bit better off than someone else isn’t going to push you to work all night when it’s required. That motivation is going to have to come from an intrinsic place - some well of meaning that has significance for you.

• I’ve had the chance to study a little philosophy in pursuit of my profession and having a foundational system of thought - or several to compare - from which to approach decision making has helped me to determine my path and give meaning to my time alive.

• If you’re trying to do anything difficult, doing it alone is courting failure. Find other people doing similar things and figure out how you can help them out. Equally, if you want to learn something you’ll have a much easier time if you find a teacher.

There’s an opportunity in this mess to re imagine the digital commons for the better. What does an online social space look like when it privileges the needs of the community over the needs of capital?

If I’m on the TestFlight is it important to switch?

Edit: question answered

Has been in earnest since about 2014 by my watch

But… It is essentially identical in design to Reddit apart from the decentralised concept.