Not even!

Because it pretends to be different to the centralised corporate social media platforms, whilst giving the cohesive experience of a centralised platform

None of them really fit me. Do I need to hand in my transfem card? :P

Think of it like email.

You have an email account with yahoo. That allows you to send and receive emails from gmail users, but it doesn’t let you login to gmail with your yahoo account.

There are projects around to try and change that, so you can login to one instance using your account on another instance, but at this point in time, it’s basically not a thing that can be done by most fediverse software.

Thanks. This is one of the reasons we generally don’t upgrade immediately :)

You think a trans person getting death threats wouldn’t love to be able to identify as their AGAB?

No… That person wouldn’t be me, they’d be someone else…

I don’t remember him speaking like that though! :P

It’s a federated protocol, but the network itself isn’t meaningfully federated, and is basically just Bluesky (the company) infrastructure. Hopefully that changes, because until then, it’s still a centralised social media platform, despite the underlying technology

Cut them in half

Maybe I’ve just played too much Shadowrun with too many Australians, but lots of them ended up speaking like that, even when they weren’t meant to be Australian! :)

This is not polyamory. This is polygamy. They’re pretty much opposites, because polyamory is about multi partner relations that respect the needs and wants of all of the participants.

Polygamy on the other hand, is only about the freedom of one person (usually a man), and actively restricts the rights of the other participants.

I don’t drive. At work and at home I have multiple fast food options within a very short walking distance

Children tempted to drink gasoline, for example.

Sure. But the goal with kids is to work them towards being able to think for themselves. We guide them until they can, and even then, the guidance should look like rules and guidelines, not indoctrination of thoughts and beliefs.

And lets take your scenario and extend it. Lets say that aliens come along, and they see our planet, and they realise that it’s doomed because if they don’t intervene, scenario X will happen. They can’t solve this for us, so they need us to mobilise to save ourselves.

Aliens that come along and set “rules for our own good”, and enforce certain protective rules and regulations, like strict space parents, but do so without trying to control what we think are more “good” than aliens that indoctrinate away our free will and artificially create “voluntary” compliance.

In the first scenario, the space parents are saving us. In the second scenario, the space parents are replacing us.

It doesn’t matter how you do it, if your goal is to make someone think the way you want them to, rather than trying to get them to think for themselves, it’s the same problem

Because it’s fast… Because I can take it home… Because it doesn’t feel like I’m trashing something nice when I order it to be delivered…

There isn’t, because installing chips in everyone that effectively over-rides their identity is mutually exclusive with “goodness”

Hey, so this is posted from a brand new account, with no post history or engagement, other than two posts linking to an offsite blog. If you’re legit, I’m going to ask that you engage with the post or reply to me.

Many years ago on reddit, you could get given gold. It gave you paid benefits. My comments earned me literally years worth of gold, and my karma was similarly increasing.

Then I came out as trans. Suddenly the gold stopped and my karma stagnated

That kind of bias is built in to the karma system. It doesn’t just punish shit takes, it also sidelines visible minorities