Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

i despise the argument that adults need to be thoroughly vetted for medical transition because surely, people need to be protected from making such a life-altering decision too quickly, or for the wrong reasons?

they do not, actually. people have the freedom to make an untold number of radical, life-changing decisions with potentially serious consequences at the drop of a hat, and for all the wrong reasons. we call this “being an adult”.

and the process of checking yourself to make sure you’re not making the wrong choices is called “responsibility”.

and every adult has the right to decide for themselves whether to act responsibly or not.

There should be fewer products named like "Eightfold.ai" and more like "Kyle's Ultimate Brush Pack"

@joepie91
This is why having easily-changed settings with a few variants for different people to use (and switch as needed) should be the default. That's the ramp that everyone can use.

While we're here, can we also talk about the proliferation of the use of terrible (blurry, poorly scaled, grey, etc) webfonts for body text in text-heavy spaces like blogs?

So are you.... you know, a friend of Xenia?

Reminder that fascists believe whatever is convenient for their goals at the time and are utterly unbothered by people pointing out inconsistencies or hypocrisy in their actions, statements, policies, or ideology

What would a doctrine of squatter's rights look like for digital places?

I don't really think this is realistic. It would be nice if there were provisions to more easily turn a website over to collective ownership. Leave it to the users to keep the server coffers full. There are places that work in this manner but in a legal sense they aren't really governed this way. Almost always there are 1 or 2 people who could simply shut the place down. Or let it slowly fall apart neglecting software.

Online communities are real communities. People have met future spouses, weathered difficult life events, organized politically, raised money to help each other all through the panoply of social websites.

Often community rules and culture are guided by moderators, who almost always work for free.

Despite all of this we generally accept that these are not the people who own the website or the ones who control its fate.

Over and over this creates heartache and disappointment.

Everything happening with Reddit will happen with GitHub.

I wonder if there's any games out there that exploit the "moving black shape on an OLED screen" phenomenon

I found the post, here's a thread of me banging on about about how recency-focused social media makes good stuff harder to find

https://mstdn.social/@ifixcoinops/110401485793795904

It took me a bit to find it because I had to scroll past all the memes and shite I posted since then