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@thufie borders?? the only borders I support are the bright red ones around uncaptioned media

To reiterate some of the issues with conferences:
- An entry fee keeps out poor people
- A scheduled conference time keeps out anyone who does not have much spare time (again, especially poor people) or who cannot just decide to do something at a specific time (eg. neurodiverse people)
- Video/audio calls exclude people with auditory processing issues or hearing impairments
- A physical conference excludes both disabled and poor people (for accessibility and travel cost reasons respectively)
- A conference on a proprietary platform excludes anyone who for whatever reason cannot use the proprietary client; this ranges from OS support issues to accessibility issues
- Not to mention all the safety concerns for marginalized people when being forced to interact with others in real-time

Centering your project decisionmaking around conferences means that the only people who can fully participate (and therefore be represented) will be able-bodied, well-off, sufficiently neurotypical, and otherwise privileged.

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@tastytea@very.tastytea.de oh i thought you ment pixie.town for a sec lol

ph+ realization 

just realized (knock on wood) it's been ages since I last had a nosebleed, even though I used to have them quite a lot when I was younger

It's literally been like a week since I tooted about how project decisionmaking at a conference means gatekeeping, and now we have an online conference charging admission(??) on a proprietary platform(????) claiming to be all about "making decisions on how to move fedi forward"

This is not how community governance works, people

@kim I'm sorry why are they charging a ticket fee for an online conference on a proprietary chat platform

my brain just combined words into 'reward avoidance', hmm

@zkat i tend to call this adhd driven development oof lol

My wife jokes that showing off results is a core part of my development process because I won’t consider a task “done” until I’ve been showered with praise about it 😅

So please keep those faves coming 😂

nothing 

one punch man
two pump chump
three idk i ran out of inspiration

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